Dr Katherine (Katie) Young is a research psychologist with expertise in mental health research. She has 16 years of research experience spanning both academia and industry, and has led a range of studies spanning evaluations of mental health services from community and NHS settings, large-scale longitudinal research on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and a variety of projects exploring behavioural and neuroscientific mechanisms of mental health interventions. Katie has extensive experience in quantitative research methodologies, including advanced statistical analysis, randomised controlled trials and experimental paradigms, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Katie is also a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, where she previously led a research laboratory examining mechanisms of psychological interventions for common mental health conditions in young people, gaining funding for her research from MQ Mental Health Research and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. In her previous role in industry as a Principal Scientist at Amwell, Katherine conducted research examining the effectiveness of digital psychological interventions for anxiety and depression. This included leading the research strategy to build an evidence base for novel interventions for children and young people and designing randomised controlled trials to align with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) regulatory standards.
Katie has a doctorate in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford, funded by a studentship from the Medical Research Council, during which she led studies on postnatal depression, parenting and caregiving behaviour.
At CEI, Katie leads a portfolio of studies including a realist evaluation of the impact of lived experience collaboration in mental health, systematic reviews of mechanisms of youth mental health interventions and active labour market programmes, a pilot evaluation of a trauma-informed intervention for pupils at risk of school exclusion and a randomised controlled trial of a mentoring intervention targeting attendance in secondary schools.
