Speaker
Dr. Eva A. Sprecher
Research Fellow at the Child Trauma and Recovery Group at UCL and Anna Freud
Biography
Dr Eva A Sprecher is a Research Fellow at the Child Trauma and Recovery Group (led by Professor Rachel Hiller) at UCL and Anna Freud. Her research focuses on understanding how we can better support the mental health of young people living in care. She has worked on several large research studies working to improve evidence-based mental health support for young people living in care including the ReThink Programme (MRC UKRI-funded), MyVoice (NIHR-funded) and Reflective Fostering (NIHR-funded). She is a qualified secondary school teacher and trustee of Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust, an innovator in the children's residential care sector.