Julie Young is based at the Centre for Research on Children and Families at the University of East Anglia. She has a keen interest in psychological, social and legal issues around parenting and child development. Julie is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and worked for several years as a teacher of Psychology and pastoral tutor in schools and colleges before joining the UEA in 2001 to work on the Nuffield funded 'Contact after Adoption' study. This longitudinal study, following up children and families with different plans for contact with their birth families after adoption, has had a significant impact on international policy and practice. Subsequently Julie became a key researcher on the government funded 'Helping Birth Families' and 'Supporting Complex Contact' studies.
Since then, she has contributed to a range of projects at University of East Anglia exploring the experiences of parents involved with children's services and vulnerable children along with other topics in the fields of adoption, foster care, and child protection.
Julie has also played a key role in promoting and ensuring the applications of research to practice, regularly running training events and workshops around contact after adoption, moving from foster care to adoption and the Secure base Model.
Julie also contributes to the teaching of Psychology at University of East Anglia.
Email: j.young@uea.ac.uk