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- Professor of Evidence Based Practice and Research
- Clinical, Edu & Hlth Psychology
- Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
A clinical psychologist by background, Professor Miranda Wolpert's work focuses on improvement and prevention science combined with social entrepreneurship. She is committed to understanding how best to support and evaluate effective service delivery to promote resilience and meet children and young people’s mental health needs, including the development of online, digital and face-to-face tools and training resources for young people, carers and practitioners.
Professor Wolpert is Professor of Evidence Based Practice at UCL, and Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit, a service development and academic unit across UCL and the Centre which works to bridge evidence and practice in child mental health.
Professor Wolpert is also Director of Innovation, Evaluation and Dissemination at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The programme works on four streams of work; Resilience Research and Evaluation, Digital Development and Evaluation, Innovation and Dissemination, and the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC).
Professor Wolpert is Founder and Director of the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), the UK’s leading membership organisation that collects and uses evidence to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Members include mental health service providers, schools, professional bodies and research institutions from across Europe and beyond.
In her other roles, Miranda is National Informatics Advisor for Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) with NHS England, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, and Children and Young People Mental Health Clinical Pathway Lead at UCL Partners.
My research agenda focuses on how to understand child mental health difficulties and how best to support children, young people and families to build on their own strengths to overcome and manage their difficulties and aid recovery. This involves both examination of the natural history of such problems and evaluating how best to develop and support services that can maximally help this population, focussing particularly on how routine data can be used to encourage reflective practice and underpin service improvement. My research covers prevention science, implementation science and improvement science, and bridges the worlds of practice and academic learning.
01-OCT-2016 | Professor of Evidence Based Practice and Research | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-MAR-2015 – 01-OCT-2016 | Reader in Evidence Based Practice and Research | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | UCL, United Kingdom |
2015 | Chair, CAMHS Payment System Working Group | National Health Service, United Kingdom | |
2014 | Chair, MH ERG for Informatics | , United Kingdom | |
2014 | Clinical Advisor Child Mental Health | UCL Partners, United Kingdom | |
2014 – 2016 | Member | Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), United Kingdom | |
2012 | Member of Children and Young People's Outcomes Forum | Department of Health, United Kingdom | |
2012 | National Informatics Advisor | CYP IAPT | National Health Service, United Kingdom |
2011 | Lead (joint) CAMHS Payment by Results | Department of Health, United Kingdom | |
2010 – 2016 | Chair | Outcomes and Evaluation Group | Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), United Kingdom |
2010 | Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom | |
2009 | Mental Health Stream Lead | Child Policy Research Unit (CPRU) | Department of Health, United Kingdom |
2008 | Head of Service Development and Evaluation | Anna Freud Centre, United Kingdom | |
2006 | Director | Evidence Based Practice Unit | Anna Freud Centre and UCL, United Kingdom |
2004 – 2009 | National Clinical Advisor | CAMHS | Care Service Improvement Partnership (CSIP), United Kingdom |
2004 | Director | Child Outcomes Research Consortium, United Kingdom | |
2000 – 2003 | Honorary Lecturer | Royal Holloway and Bedford College | University of London, United Kingdom |
1996 – 2001 | Independent Psychologist | St Paul's Girls' School, United Kingdom | |
1991 – 1998 | Clinical Psychologist | Riverside Mental Health Unit | Child and Family Consultation Centre, United Kingdom |
1998 | Doctorate in Clinical Psychology | University of Surrey | |
1991 | Diploma | University of Surrey | |
1985 | Master of Arts | University of Sussex | |
1984 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | University of Cambridge |