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Contact the Initiative

The 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 Director, Adolescent Mental Health, 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

Bernadine Chelvanayagam

is the Administrator for the Initiative. After studying Psychology she worked at a challenging behaviour unit and a medium secure unit for adults and also within schools. A need to engage in creative work led her to pursue study in this. She now combines her interest in psychology and creative work by working for the Initiative and also running her own creative business.

Email: bchelvanayagam@nuffieldfoundation.org

Last Updated Wed, 2 April 2008