Calendar of events
Department Psychology Seminars: Dr Vicky Fallon, University of Liverpool
Host: Professor Fiona MacCallum (Head of Department)
Title: Measuring What Matters: Bridging Research, Practice, and Lived Experience in Perinatal and Parent–Infant Mental Health
Abstract: This seminar draws on a programme of research on perinatal mental health measurement and screening, with a particular focus on perinatal anxiety. Using examples from the development, validation, and cross-cultural adaptation of perinatal-specific measures, the talk examines how decisions about what we measure influence evidence generation, interpretation, and clinical screening, with downstream consequences for who is identified, supported, and included in perinatal mental health care. The presentation will reflect on the academic–clinical gap through the lens of measurement, highlighting both challenges and opportunities, and will argue for more collaborative, inclusive, and implementation-aware approaches to research that genuinely improve perinatal and parent–infant mental health research and practice.