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Contact the Programme

The Changing Adolescence Programme (formerly 'Adolescent mental health initiative') is a specific programme of research on time trends in adolescent mental health, set up by The Nuffield Foundation in 2005.

Key contacts include:

Dr Ann Hagell

is Programme Head, Changing Adolescence Programme, at The Nuffield Foundation in London. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a specific interest in at-risk adolescents, particularly young offenders. She studied for her PhD at The Institute of Psychiatry and was a Fulbright Scholar in the USA. She then worked for five years at the Policy Studies Institute and after that, co-founded the Policy Research Bureau, an independent research institute specialising in work on young children, young people and families. Overall, she has authored or co-authored approximately 50 articles, chapters and reports on adolescence and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adolescence. As well as being professional adviser to the ‘Research in Practice’ Partnership Board, Ann is a Trustee of the Prison Reform Trust, an expert adviser to the Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Adolescence, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London and an ad-hoc reviewer for a range of journals and funders in the field. Recent publications by Dr Hagell

Email: ahagell@nuffieldfoundation.org

Last Updated Mon, 3 August 2009