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Charlotte Kitchen
Research Fellow

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Biography

Dr Charlotte Kitchen is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) White Rose Post-Doctoral Fellow based in the Public Health and Society Research Group in the University of York's Department of Health Sciences, working with Dr Stephanie Prady. Her Fellowship seeks to understand the variation in adolescent's experience of psychotherapy using social inequalities as an explanatory framework to contribute to the on-going debate about how best to deliver psychotherapy to greater numbers of young people without excluding those who may need it the most. 
 
Charlotte's background is in Psychology and her PhD focused upon evaluating an intervention called Behavioural Activation for young people with depression in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. During her PhD she was awarded the British Psychological Society Postgraduate Fellowship Award which enabled her to undertake a three month placement in the Houses of Parliament, where she was based in the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
 
Charlotte joined the Mental Health and Addictions Research Group in 2017 as a Trial Support Officer on the CASPER (collaborative care for older adults with major depressive disorder) and CHEMIST (community pharmacies mood intervention) research projects. Her next post was as a Research Fellow with the Diabetes and Mental Illness Improving Services and Outcomes (DIAMONDS) team.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, Newcastle University, 2009
  • PGCert Health Research Methods, Durham University, 2013
  • PhD Health Studies, Durham University, 2018

Research

Overview

Charlotte’s research interests focus upon interventions to improve adolescent mental health, specifically Behavioural Activation, and equitable access to and engagement with psychological therapies more broadly. Her methodological interests include qualitative study of lived experiences and the application of mixed methods within a trials context.

Projects

  • ESRC White Rose Fellowship: Understanding young people's engagement with psychological therapies through a social inequalities lens

Research group(s)

Charlotte Kitchen

Contact details

Dr Charlotte Kitchen
Research Fellow

External activities

Media coverage

FUSE Open Science Blog: http://fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/an-education-in-how-research-influences.html 

Publications

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