Profile
Dr Katie Finning
Research Fellow
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South Cloisters 2.05
South Cloisters, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Katie is an associate within the Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe) in the College of Medicine and Health. She previously worked as a Research Fellow where her research focused on mental health in schools and, in particular, on the association between mental health and educational outcomes. Katie has a particular interest in quantitative research methods, but also has experience with systematic reviews, qualitative research, and randomised controlled trials. Katie left the University of Exeter in 2021 to take up a research position at the Office for National Statistics.
Katie Finning (0000-0001-5774-5837) (orcid.org)
Qualifications
PhD in Medical Studies, University of Exeter (2019)
BSc (1st class Hons) in Psychology, University of Exeter (2011)
Research group links
Research
Research projects
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: The relationships between mental health and educational outcomes in children and young people 2021
Place2Be: Examining the longer-term effectiveness of Place2Be's one-to-one counselling delivered to children in primary schools 2019-2020
PhD project: The association between emotional disorders and school absenteeism in children and young people 2016-2019
COBRA: Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation for Depression 2012-2016
External Engagement and Impact
Awards and Honours
- Winner of the "Best Paper published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health" at the 2020 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) awards
- Nominated for "Trainee of the year" and "Rising star" at the 2020 ACAMH awards
Media Coverage
- Widespread press and social media coverage on "Longer term effects of school-based counselling in UK primary schools"
- Press and social media coverage of a systematic review on the association between anxiety and poor school attendance