Senior Research Associate and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Research in Play, Education, Development and Learning at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Christine O'Farrelly's research focuses on early child development. She is involved in a range of work developing and testing interventions to promote young children’s wellbeing including early mental health and language development. Her work situates innovation in the overarching principle of participatory design with and for children, families, communities, and services. Christine draws on state of the art approaches in service design, digital innovation and coproduction to put effective programmes into the hands and homes of families. She is especially committed to bringing children’s own voices into the systems and services that shape their lives.

Christine completed her PhD in developmental psychology in University College Dublin and held postdoctoral positions at the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin and the Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London.