Dr Anna March

About me:

Anna is a Research Fellow in the Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe). She is working with Vashti Berry on Kailo, a research and design initiative supporting local communities to co-design strategies to improve adolescent mental health. This project uses realist evaluation methods and has a particular focus on addressing the underlying social drivers of poor adolescent mental health.

Before joining ChYMe, Anna worked mainly on evaluations of universal mental health and wellbeing programmes in schools. Her PhD looked at the sustainability of school-based interventions, exploring the complexity of school settings and the challenges around creating wider system change.

Anna is interested in prevention and early intervention in the field of children and young people’s mental health, both in school settings and the wider community. She is particularly interested in research approaches that acknowledge the complexity of introducing interventions to different contexts, as well as exploring ways to generate sustainable system change.