Miss Ella Watson

(she/her)

BSc MSc

Overview

I am an ESRC funded PhD student working within CASCADE, the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre at Cardiff University. My research aims to explore the impact of substance misuse on longer term outcomes for high risk young people using linked administrative data from the SAIL databank. I also work part-time on an additional linked data project researching social care outcomes for children affected by parental alcohol use. 

I have previous research experience in the Cardiff University School of Psychology. I completed a year-long placement with the Neurodevelopmental Assessment Unit (NDAU) within CUCHDS, the Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science, which is also where my MSc Children's Psychological Disorder course was based. 

My core research interests concern how adverse experiences throughout childhood and adolescence may inform later outcomes for individuals, particularly concerning their mental health. I am particularly interested in the outcomes and experiences of those who have experience of care or adoption.