Rudd Centre's Current Collaborators
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A unique strength of our Centre is the inter-disciplinary partnerships we have developed across the UK and internationally. We work with researchers across different disciplines (e.g., Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, Education, Social work, Law and others). We also collaborate with policy makers, charities, non-profit organisations, industry, practitioners, volunteers, young people's advocacy groups, parents/carers and families. Through our collaborations we have generated significant impacts, published multiple academic papers, delivered high level government reports and facilitated multiple seminars, presentations and communities of practice workshops. Please get in touch if you'd like to explore collaborating with us!
Bennett School of Public Policy
The Bennett School of Public Policy is Cambridge University’s flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, which encompasses the research activities of the former Bennett Institute for Public Policy, teaches postgraduate programmes, and engages with key collaborators and decision-makers to ensure the right kind of growth is fairly shared. Our work connects political thinking, economics, the humanities, health, technology, engineering and science.
Bennett School of Public Policy website
Cambridge Public Health
An organisation aiming to tackle societies public health problems through international collaboration. The organisation aims to improve research evidence, capacity building, and impact to build a better word.
Cambridge Public Health website
The Rudd Centre Director, Prof. Gordon Harold, is leading on one of the pillars of Cambridge Public Health, focusing on Public Mental Health.
Cambridge Aid
A local charity providing practical, rapid support to vulnerable families and individuals living in poverty in the Cambridge community. Cambridge Aid supports families in poverty, homeless people, domestic abuse victims who've fled a violent partner, individuals in financial crisis linked to mental health problems - and many others. Cambridge Aid makes small grants to pay for food, bedding, clothing, and white goods. The emergency grants not only provide practical support to people in dire need, but they offer them a little dignity in difficulty times
Our Time Charity
When a parent has mental health problems, it changes their child's world too. Around 4 million UK children are in this situation, yet many go without the support they need. Our Time Charity are here to put that right. Through family workshops, professional training and campaigning, we help adults understand what children are facing — so support is built in, not left to chance.
Greater Cambridge Impact
Greater Cambridge Impact is an innovative place-based social impact investment fund.
Our mission: We’re helping to tackle the systemic inequality in Greater Cambridge that leads to vast differences in life chances across our community.
Greater Cambridge Impact LinkedIn page
University College Dublin
UCD is a research-intensive global university with purpose, drive and ambition, flourishing for over 160 years. UCD's mission is to create knowledge, to empower learning and to engage with partners to drive impact from education and research.
University of Oregon
The University of Oregon has long served as an agent of change and innovation. For more than a century, we’ve grown along with our state and region. Through it all, we’ve been steadfast in our focus on the future. A place for big ideas, we push the boundaries of knowledge and prepare our students for fulfilling, impactful careers and lives.
The University of Cambridge Museums and the Botanic Garden
The University of Cambridge Museums are a unique consortium of eight Museums and the Botanic Garden. We are committed to ensuring that all our work, and the way we do it, is as inclusive as possible. Being true to our mission means questioning and seeking to expand our knowledge about our collections, adding new perspectives and layers of understanding.
The University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden website
The Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the lead partner of the spectacular collections of the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) and Botanic Garden. From antiquity to the present day, the Fitzwilliam houses a world-renowned collection of over half a million beautiful works of art, masterpiece paintings and historical artefacts.
The Fitzwilliam Museum website
University of Cambridge Counselling Service
We support and empower students to fulfil their academic and personal potential.
University of Cambridge Counselling Service website
Project Partnerships
The Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS)
A nationwide prospective longitudinal study of over 500 children who were adopted at birth in the United States. The study has followed the adoptive families up to child age 11 years, and the biological parents for 10 years with repeat assessments. Retention rates are over 85% for both biological and adoptive families. The study aims to investigate the relationship between heredity and the family environment (nature and nurture), and to understand how they work together and separately in child development, and to uniquely inform evidence-led understanding of processes that impact adoptive parents, children, and families.
Early Growth and Development Study website
The Cardiff IVF Study (C-IVF)
A genetically informative cross-sectional study of more than 1000 genetically related and genetically unrelated parent-child pairs with children following successful artificial reproductive treatment between 1994 and 2002 (child age 4 to 10 years). The study aims to investigate the effects of pre- and post-natal early environments on child development.
The Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS)
A New Zealand longitudinal general population birth cohort of more than 1000 children who were born in the Christchurch urban region during 1977 and were followed from birth into adulthood (38+ years). It aims to follow health, education and life progress of these children as they develop.
Christchurch Health and Development Study website
The Early Prediction of Adolescent Depression (EPAD)
A longitudinal high-risk sample of more than 300 parents with recurrent unipolar depression and their adolescent offspring (at first assessment: age 9-17 years) from the UK, followed up on 3 occasions (2007 – 2010). The study aimed to investigate the mechanisms of risk and resilience for the development of psychopathology across the course of adolescence.
The Oregon Juvenile Justice-Welfare Project
A sample of over 100 girls and their foster/kin parents in the final year of elementary school (~9 years old) participating in a randomised intervention trial designed to prevent the onset of delinquency among girls in foster care as they entered middle school. Participants were randomly and equally assigned to the intervention or to the foster care “as usual” condition.
The Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR)
An on-going project that aims to collect the data from ~100,000 twin pairs of school age (7-18years) in Russian Federation in order to contribute to Progress in Education through Gene-Environment Studies (PROGRESS).
The Beijing Twin Study
A longitudinal study of a representative sample of adolescent twins in Beijing (1,387 pairs of adolescent twins, mostly between the ages of 10 and 18 years). It aimed to investigate the aetiology of emotional and behavioural problems in China.
The English and Romanian Adoptee Study (ERA)
A longitudinal study of 165 Romanian child adopted into the UK in the early 1990s (between the age of 0-42 months), most of whom had spent their lives in very deprived institutions. As a control group a comparison sample of 52 non-deprived adopted children from within the UK (i.e. who had not lived in institutions) were also studied. Both groups of children have been followed-up at age 15 years and in young adulthood. The study aims to investigate the extent to which children can recover from extreme deprivation in early life when it is followed by a safe family environment in middle childhood.
Nuffield Foundation English and Romanian Adoptee Study website.