Professor Stella Chan FRSE

Charlie Waller Chair (Professor) in Evidence-based Psychological Treatment, University of Reading

As a clinical psychologist, Stella’s research focuses on young people’s mental health, seeking to identify factors that can help understand, prevent, treat and support children and adolescents with depression and anxiety. She founded Project Soothe (www.projectsoothe.com) and has been at the forefront of promoting the use of citizen science methodology to empower young people as co-producers of health research and innovations. She was winner of the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement and Media Award. Since relocating to the University of Reading, she has been working closely with charities including the Charlie Waller Trust to advance evidence-based psychological interventions in community.

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