Dr Claire Goodfellow

  • Research Associate (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

Biography

I currently work as the research manager on the SOCITS project (a A SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring and modelling influences on adolescent mental health). This MRC funded project will create a new method for researchers, counsellors, teachers, and young people to conduct research about adolescent mental health. We will look at SOCial, sITuational Systems to help understand the reasons for things like loneliness, stress and poor mental health. So, we'll investigate how social situations, as well as how the physical settings in which they occur can impact on youth mental health. 

I have a PhD in Public Health and Health Policy from the University of Strathclyde, during this programme, I completed a long-term secondment at the McSilver Institute for Policy and Poverty Research at New York University, as well as multiple secondments to the Finnish Association for Mental Health in Helsinki. Prior to this, I studied for an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, and also worked in Clinical Psychology settings within the NHS.  

My research is grounded in public health approaches to promoting adolescent mental health.

My pervious ESRC Postdoctoral fellowship, focussed on barriers to young people’s help-seeking for mental health problems including aspects such as stigma, and low mental health literacy (or how much they know about mental health and mental health problems). The project had a particular focus on experiences of young people in rural and remote areas and followed a co-production approach to research and dissemination. I aim to work with adolescents to better understand what is important to them in relation to improving their mental health.

Previously, I've worked at the SPHSU on an ESRC grant investigating loneliness and wellbeing among adolescents and young people in the UK using secondary data analysis. 

 

 

Research interests

My research interests are focussed on aspects of adolescent mental health including:

  • Mental Health Literacy (MHL) in adolescence.
  • Associations between mental health literacy and help-seeking intentions.
  • Mental health stigma in adolescence and its impact on help-seeking intention.
  • Mental health stigma and its impacts in a rural context.
  • The social determinants of health, and health inequalities in adolescent mental health.
  • The relationships between loneliness and mental health and wellbeing.
  • Individual, social, and community risk factors for loneliness among adolescents and young people.

 

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2024

Richardson, L., Long, E. , Goodfellow, C. , Milicev, J. and Gardani, M. (2024) Starting an undergraduate degree amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method egocentric network study on student loneliness. PLoS ONE, 19(2), e0297953. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297953) (PMID:38306333) (PMCID:PMC10836688)

2023

Goodfellow, C. , Macintyre, A., Knifton, L. and Sosu, E. (2023) Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking intentions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 28(3), pp. 385-392. (doi: 10.1111/camh.12608) (PMID:36375813)

Milicev, J. , Qualter, P., Goodfellow, C. , Inchley, J. , Simpson, S. A. , Leyland, A. H. , Kharicha, K. and Long, E. (2023) The prospective relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction, and psychological distress before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. Journal of Public Health, 31(9), pp. 1417-1431. (doi: 10.1007/s10389-022-01719-x) (PMID:35668719) (PMCID:PMC9136554)

Goodfellow, C. , Willis, M. , Inchley, J. , Kharicha, K., Leyland, A. H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S. and Long, E. (2023) Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools: a multilevel analysis of data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(2), pp. 608-625. (doi: 10.1111/bjep.12581) (PMID:36683467)

Marquez, J., Goodfellow, C. , Hardoon, D., Inchley, J. , Leyland, A.H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S.A. and Long, E. (2023) Loneliness in young people: a multilevel exploration of social ecological influences and geographic variation. Journal of Public Health, 45(1), pp. 109-117. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab402) (PMID:34999845) (PMCID:PMC10017088)

2022

Goodfellow, C. , Hardoon, D., Inchley, J. , Leyland, A. H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S. A. and Long, E. (2022) Loneliness and personal well-being in young people: moderating effects of individual, interpersonal, and community factors. Journal of Adolescence, 94(4), pp. 554-568. (doi: 10.1002/jad.12046) (PMID:35403218) (PMCID:PMC9320932)

2021

Sosu, E. M., Dare, S., Goodfellow, C. and Klein, M. (2021) Socioeconomic status and school absenteeism: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. Review of Education, 9(3), e3291. (doi: 10.1002/rev3.3291)

Goodfellow, C. , Sosu, E., Macintyre, A. and Knifton, L. (2021) Mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking: the mediating and moderating effects of personal and perceived stigmas. Other. University of Strathclyde and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.232693).

Metrebian, N. et al. (2021) Using a pragmatically adapted, low-cost contingency management intervention to promote heroin abstinence in individuals undergoing treatment for heroin use disorder in UK drug services (PRAISE): a cluster randomised trial. BMJ Open, 11(7), e046371. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046371)

2020

Klein, M., Goodfellow, C. , Dare, S. and Sosu, E. (2020) Socioeconomic inequalities in school attendance in Scotland: research brief. Other. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Costa, C., Taylor, Y., Goodfellow, C. and Ecochard, S. (2020) Estranged students in higher education: navigating social and economic capitals. Cambridge Journal of Education, 50(1), pp. 107-123. (doi: 10.1080/0305764X.2019.1648639)

Costa, C., Taylor, Y., Goodfellow, C. and Ecochard, S. (2020) Student estrangement in higher education: identity formation and the struggle against stigma. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(5), pp. 685-700. (doi: 10.1080/01425692.2020.1770575)

2018

Metrebian, N. et al. (2018) Positive reinforcement targeting abstinence in substance misuse (PRAISe): study protocol for a cluster RCT & process evaluation of contingency management. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 71, pp. 124-132. (doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2018.06.008) (PMID:29908336)

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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Richardson, L., Long, E. , Goodfellow, C. , Milicev, J. and Gardani, M. (2024) Starting an undergraduate degree amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method egocentric network study on student loneliness. PLoS ONE, 19(2), e0297953. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297953) (PMID:38306333) (PMCID:PMC10836688)

Goodfellow, C. , Macintyre, A., Knifton, L. and Sosu, E. (2023) Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking intentions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 28(3), pp. 385-392. (doi: 10.1111/camh.12608) (PMID:36375813)

Milicev, J. , Qualter, P., Goodfellow, C. , Inchley, J. , Simpson, S. A. , Leyland, A. H. , Kharicha, K. and Long, E. (2023) The prospective relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction, and psychological distress before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. Journal of Public Health, 31(9), pp. 1417-1431. (doi: 10.1007/s10389-022-01719-x) (PMID:35668719) (PMCID:PMC9136554)

Goodfellow, C. , Willis, M. , Inchley, J. , Kharicha, K., Leyland, A. H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S. and Long, E. (2023) Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools: a multilevel analysis of data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(2), pp. 608-625. (doi: 10.1111/bjep.12581) (PMID:36683467)

Marquez, J., Goodfellow, C. , Hardoon, D., Inchley, J. , Leyland, A.H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S.A. and Long, E. (2023) Loneliness in young people: a multilevel exploration of social ecological influences and geographic variation. Journal of Public Health, 45(1), pp. 109-117. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab402) (PMID:34999845) (PMCID:PMC10017088)

Goodfellow, C. , Hardoon, D., Inchley, J. , Leyland, A. H. , Qualter, P., Simpson, S. A. and Long, E. (2022) Loneliness and personal well-being in young people: moderating effects of individual, interpersonal, and community factors. Journal of Adolescence, 94(4), pp. 554-568. (doi: 10.1002/jad.12046) (PMID:35403218) (PMCID:PMC9320932)

Sosu, E. M., Dare, S., Goodfellow, C. and Klein, M. (2021) Socioeconomic status and school absenteeism: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. Review of Education, 9(3), e3291. (doi: 10.1002/rev3.3291)

Metrebian, N. et al. (2021) Using a pragmatically adapted, low-cost contingency management intervention to promote heroin abstinence in individuals undergoing treatment for heroin use disorder in UK drug services (PRAISE): a cluster randomised trial. BMJ Open, 11(7), e046371. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046371)

Costa, C., Taylor, Y., Goodfellow, C. and Ecochard, S. (2020) Estranged students in higher education: navigating social and economic capitals. Cambridge Journal of Education, 50(1), pp. 107-123. (doi: 10.1080/0305764X.2019.1648639)

Costa, C., Taylor, Y., Goodfellow, C. and Ecochard, S. (2020) Student estrangement in higher education: identity formation and the struggle against stigma. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(5), pp. 685-700. (doi: 10.1080/01425692.2020.1770575)

Metrebian, N. et al. (2018) Positive reinforcement targeting abstinence in substance misuse (PRAISe): study protocol for a cluster RCT & process evaluation of contingency management. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 71, pp. 124-132. (doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2018.06.008) (PMID:29908336)

Research Reports or Papers

Goodfellow, C. , Sosu, E., Macintyre, A. and Knifton, L. (2021) Mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking: the mediating and moderating effects of personal and perceived stigmas. Other. University of Strathclyde and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.232693).

Klein, M., Goodfellow, C. , Dare, S. and Sosu, E. (2020) Socioeconomic inequalities in school attendance in Scotland: research brief. Other. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • SOCITS: A SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring and modelling relational influences on adolescent mental health
    UK Research and Innovation
    2022 - 2025
     
  • Help-seeking in adolescence: the importance of mental health stigma and literacy
    Economic and Social Research Council
    2021 - 2022
     

Teaching

I currently supervise projects as part of the Master of Public Health programme, the Global Mental Health MSc Programme, and the BSc (Med Sci) Clinical Medicine intercalated in Psychological Medicine.

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2021: Glasgow Crucible (University of Glasgow)

Research fellowships

  • 2021 - 2022: ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship