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Alice Wickersham

Dr Alice Wickersham

Research Associate

Research interests

  • Child & Family
  • Mental Health
  • Education
  • Crime

Biography

I'm the Academic Lead for Clinical and Population Analytics in the CAMHS Digital Lab team, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. My research interests are in using epidemiological methods and data linkage to investigate issues affecting children, adolescents and young people, particularly intersections between mental health, education and criminal justice.

I have been undertaking a research fellowship funded by Administrative Data Research UK (ESRC), investigating educational trajectories and criminal justice involvement among children and adolescents using a linkage between Ministry of Justice and Department for Education data.

I undertook my PhD in the Department of Psychological Medicine. My PhD research focused on educational trajectories of children and adolescents with depression, which I investigated using linked administrative health and education datasets and longitudinal statistical modelling techniques.

Prior to my PhD, I was a Research Assistant at King’s Centre for Military Health Research and at Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. I have a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences (both University College London).

Research Interests

  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Mental Health
  • Education
  • Criminal Justice
  • Epidemiological research methods
  • Administrative data linkage

    Research

    The longitudinal association between school performance trajectories and offending behaviour

    A project using linked data from the National Pupil Database and Police National Computer to investigate educational trajectories and offending outcomes.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards

    Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...

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    Features

    What is Administrative Data?

    Dr Alice Wickersham explains more on administrative data, including what it is, how it is collected and the ways in which it can be used.

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      Research

      The longitudinal association between school performance trajectories and offending behaviour

      A project using linked data from the National Pupil Database and Police National Computer to investigate educational trajectories and offending outcomes.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards

      Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...

      star

      Features

      What is Administrative Data?

      Dr Alice Wickersham explains more on administrative data, including what it is, how it is collected and the ways in which it can be used.

      Untitled design