Dr Eolene Boyd is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Cambridge and a researcher in NIHR ARC East of England’s Mental Health and Wellbeing theme.
Eolene works in public mental health using participatory action research methods to develop and test community-based programmes with stakeholder involvement to increase resilience and self-regulation during difference/disagreement/conflict. She is Chief Investigator and Co-Lead with Michela Tinelli, LSE on the NIHR-funded SWIFT project examining the economic impacts of resilience, resistance, and burnout among social (care) workers in East of England and Greater London.
Eolene leads the ‘Public and Mental Health, Ageing, and the Brain’ group in the Psychiatry Department at the University of Cambridge and co-founded the IC-ADAPT Consortium, an international collaboration targeting coping and adapting during adversity, as mediated and moderated by environmental structures and systems. Since 2016, she has successfully led the multi-sector international research, translation, and implementation of a trauma-informed resilience-building course for young people in Sweden. She led the social and emotional learning (SEL) component of the UNICEF-Cambridge Learning Passport (reaching 10M learners and educators in 46 countries), represents the University on the Board of the newly founded Nadija Foundation, and is invited Guest Editor of a special collection of papers for the journal, European Addiction Research, focusing on Young people, substance use and pathways to recovery.