Emily is a Research Fellow in the Evidence Based Practice Unit at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL. Her research interests include child and adolescent mental health, parenting, and mixed methods research. Emily’s doctoral research at UCL focused on qualitatively exploring the experience of being the parent of an adolescent diagnosed with depression. Before starting her PhD, Emily worked as a research assistant on three large research projects, one called the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, and two at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health: the Meningococcal Outcomes Study in Adolescents and In Children (MOSAIC) and a randomised controlled trial of a Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) for adolescents and their families.
Emily Stapley explores a recent article by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on avoiding social risk in adolescence, which argues that the social risk of being rejected by peers outweighs other potentially negative outcomes of decisions.
Emily Stapley summarises a recent Danish national cohort study, which looks at self-harm and violent criminality among young people who experienced trauma-related childhood hospital admission.
Emily Stapley summarises a recent 4-year longitudinal study of the antecedents of new-onset major depressive disorder in children and adolescents at high familial risk.
Emily Stapley summarises a Mendelian randomisation study that investigates associations between the timing of menarche with depressive symptoms and depression in adolescence.
Emily Stapley reports on a recent study of the timing of general population and patient suicide in England. She discovers that Springtime, Mondays and New Year’s Day are all associated with peaks in suicide incidence.
Emily Stapley reports on a new JAMA meta-analysis, which finds that mental illnesses such as depression and binge eating disorder are common among patients seeking and undergoing bariatric surgery.
Emily Stapley presents the findings of a recent cohort study that highlights an association between eating disorders in parents and eating disorders in their children.
