Marcia Brophy

Marcia joined the Young Foundation in November 2007 as the Wellbeing Programme Leader.

Before joining the Young Foundation Marcia was a Senior Evaluation and Research Analyst at the Big Lottery Fund and was responsible for developing and implementing strategies for evaluating the impact of BIG's funding streams. She also identified and lead on new dissemination approaches for these findings including organising their first UK evaluation conference "Tidy Findings in an Untidy World" in 2007.

Previously Marcia led the first ever UK-wide Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People, funded by the Mental Health Foundation and the Camelot Foundation. This influential Inquiry identified and commissioned innovative approaches to react and influence current knowledge, practice and policy in this field. She has also been the Research Manager at Safe in the City, a SRB-funded action research programme established to pilot new ways of preventing youth homelessness in London by working with young people and their families. Marcia has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry on a longitudinal examination of outcomes for English and Romanian Adoptees; at the Institute of Education examining the impact of parents on their children's employability; and has worked freelance as a consultant for PACE helping them evaluate the effectiveness of a therapeutic group work approach to HIV prevention with gay men in North London.

Marcia holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Institute of Education and the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, respectively.

Selected Publications:

Brophy, M. (May 2008). 'A Civic Recipe for Happiness. Can local authorities find a way to make us all happy?'. New Start, 23 May 2008.

Foskett, T. and Brophy, M. (October 2006). ‘Talking Spaces II: A Therapeutic Groupwork Approach to HIV Prevention with Gay Men'. Commissioned and written for PACE.

Brophy, M. (May 2006). ‘Young People & Self-harm: Findings from a National Inquiry'. Final report; Mental Health Foundation & Camelot Foundation.

Dunn, J. and Brophy, M. (2005). ‘Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind'. In: Why Language Matters for Theory of Mind, (eds) Astington, J.W. and Baird, J.A. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Brophy, M. (2003). ‘Consulting Young People in Hackney - Perceptions Around Homelessness'. Internal report for Hackney Council Housing Department's homelessness strategy.

Brophy, M., Talyor, E. and Hughes, C. (2002). ‘To go or not to go: Inhibitory control in ‘hard to manage' children.' Infant and Child Development, Special Issue on Executive Functions and Development, 11, 125-140.

Brophy, M. and Dunn, J. (2002). ‘What did mummy say? Dyadic interactions between ‘hard to manage' children and their mothers.' Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30(2), 103-112.

Contact

marcia.brophy(AT)youngfoundation.org or call 020 8980 6263