Overview

Katie is an associate within the Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe) in the College of Medicine and Health. She previously worked as a Research Fellow where her research focused on mental health in schools and, in particular, on the association between mental health and educational outcomes. Katie has a particular interest in quantitative research methods, but also has experience with systematic reviews, qualitative research, and randomised controlled trials. Katie left the University of Exeter in 2021 to take up a research position at the Office for National Statistics.

Katie Finning (0000-0001-5774-5837) (orcid.org)

ResearchGate Profile

Qualifications

PhD in Medical Studies, University of Exeter (2019)

BSc (1st class Hons) in Psychology, University of Exeter (2011)

Research group links

• Institute of Health Research

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Research

Research projects

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: The relationships between mental health and educational outcomes in children and young people 2021

Place2Be: Examining the longer-term effectiveness of Place2Be's one-to-one counselling delivered to children in primary schools 2019-2020

PhD project: The association between emotional disorders and school absenteeism in children and young people 2016-2019

COBRA: Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation for Depression 2012-2016

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External Engagement and Impact

Awards and Honours

• Winner of the "Best Paper published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health" at the 2020 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) awards
• Nominated for "Trainee of the year" and "Rising star" at the 2020 ACAMH awards

Media Coverage

• Widespread press and social media coverage on "Longer term effects of school-based counselling in UK primary schools"
• Press and social media coverage of a systematic review on the association between anxiety and poor school attendance

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