Dr Katie Young promoted to Director in the UK

CEI is delighted to announce that Dr Katherine (Katie) Young has been promoted to the role of Director in our UK office.

Katie is a research psychologist with more than 15 years’ leadership experience across academic, non-profit and industry settings, in an international career spanning two decades.

Katie joined CEI in early 2024 and has since taken various leadership roles within the organisation. She heads up a broad project portfolio, across youth, mental health, education and children’s social care.

Katie has a strong focus on methods, with extensive experience in quantitative methods and their application in real-world settings, and a pragmatic approach to mixed-methods research, participatory methods and evidence synthesis.

Her deep expertise encompasses systematic review and meta-analysis, service and program evaluation, large-scale longitudinal research, and quantitative research methodologies (including advanced statistical analysis, randomised controlled trials and experimental paradigms).

Katie’s significant experience prior to CEI includes leading research into digital interventions for children and young people’s mental health for Silvercloud/Amwell, and heading a youth mental health research laboratory at King’s College London.

Katie is passionate about using high quality research to learn how, why and for whom interventions and innovations can make a difference, and translating research evidence to improve lives for young people and marginalised populations.

Katie is the author of more than 90 peer-reviewed research publications, reports and book chapters. She has a doctorate in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford (2013) focused on postnatal depression, parenting and caregiving behaviour.