Dr Eleanor Chatburn

Eleanor joined ARU as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in 2025 and also works clinically in a student mental health service at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Prior to ARU, she held an international implementation role at the Child Mind Institute, contributing to the design and implementation of youth mental health programmes in South Africa and Brazil. Her career has spanned research and clinical positions across NHS services and leading academic institutions including the University of Oxford.

Eleanor holds a track record of competitive clinical academic funding and has published in leading peer-reviewed journals across youth mental health, health services, and implementation science.

She is co-founder of BRIDGE, a peer mentoring programme for early career researchers across the UK and LMICs, and holds leadership roles in the UK Mental Health Research Incubator and the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network for the East of England, reflecting her commitment to supporting fellow early career clinicians and researchers into academic careers.

• Child and adolescent mental health
• Global mental health and low- and middle-income country contexts
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with children and young people
• Mental health and social media
• Quality and safety of mental health care
• Implementation science
• Qualitative and mixed methods research in clinical psychology
• Coproduction with young people

Areas of expertise

• Clinical psychology
• Child and adolescent mental health

Course Director of the MSc in Clinical Child Psychology

Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy), University of Bath (2021)

• Registered Practitioner Psychologist, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

Chatburn, E., Nyakonda, C.N., Dumke, L., Hall, J., Heng, J.A., Kalisa, J., Kidney, R., Mamathuba, E.C., Nagraj, S., Pang, N., Salum, G. and Martin, F. (2026) Strengthening the quality and safety of community mental health care for children and young people: a critical review of innovations from low- and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Health Services, 6, 1761607. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2026.1761607

Carter, A., Gracey, F., Moody, J., Ovens, A. and Chatburn, E. (2026) The quality of mental health and neurodivergence-related information on social media: a systematic review. Journal of Social Media Research. https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.84

Edwards, A., Chatburn, E. and Meiser-Stedman, R. (2026) The prevalence and course of post-traumatic depression in children and adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 405, 121601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2026.121601

Severyn, M., Chatburn, E., Norman, S., Newlove-Delgado, T., Saxton, J., Bjornstad, G., White, S. and Ford, T. (2026) Associations between Special Educational Needs, and physical and mental health conditions in children and young people: A population-based cross-sectional study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2025-328831

Bantjes, J., Jenkins, D., Brooke-Sumner, C., Marchionatti, L., Mpisane, N., Mosalisa, M., Chideya, Y., Stein, D., Seedat, S., Tomlinson, M., Skeen, S., Lachman, A., Nassen, R., Paruk, S., Young, M., Hunt, X., Reynolds, S., Chatburn, E., Mamathuba, C., Mneimneh, Z. and Salum, G. (2025) Systematic review and meta-analysis of child and adolescent mental health in South Africa [Preprint]. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.25335400

Demkowicz, O., Chatburn, E., Archer, C., Thompson, R. and Plackett, R. (2025) Advancing mixed methods in mental health research. BMJ Mental Health, 28, e301401. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301401

Dumke, L., Nagraj, S., Yusuf, S., Abukmail, H., Cinar, E.N., Razai, M.S., Whyatt, G., Hall, J., Breda, J., Giannaki, A., Scharpf, F., Behrendt, M., Schäfer, I. and Chatburn, E. (2025) Quality of mental health care for forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European Region: A scoping review. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02833-3

Knight, R., Demkowicz, O., Sprecher, E., Bergin, A., Marzetti, H., Petersen, K., … and Chatburn, E. (2025) Meeting of minds: imagining the future of child and youth mental health research from an early career perspective. BJPsych Bulletin, pp. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2025.26

Tazzini, G., Gee, B., Wilson, J., Weber, F., Brown, A., Clarke, T. and Chatburn, E. (2023) Overcoming challenges of doing child and youth mental health research in community NHS services. The Journal of Public Mental Health, 22(4), pp. 275–286. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMH-09-2023-0083

Hards, E., Loades, M.E., Higson-Sweeney, N., Shafran, R., Serafimova, T., Brigden, A., Reynolds, S., Crawley, E., Chatburn, E., Linney, C., McManus, M. and Borwick, C. (2021) Loneliness and mental health in children and adolescents with pre-existing mental health problems: A rapid systematic review. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12331

Loades, M.E., Chatburn, E., Higson-Sweeney, N., Reynolds, S., Shafran, R., Brigden, A., Linney, C., McManus, M.N., Borwick, C. and Crawley, E. (2020) Rapid systematic review: The impact of social isolation and loneliness on the mental health of children and adolescents in the context of COVID-19. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(11), pp. 1218–1239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2020.05.009

Eleanor has experience as a media contributor and expert commentator on child and youth mental health, including contributions to national media, podcasts, and online educational platforms.