Blossom Fernandes
Research Fellow
Blossom joined NCCMH and the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre (PMHIC) as a Research Fellow in 2025, to collaborate with the team on evaluating evidence-based mental health interventions and lead on implementation research.
Before joining NCCMH, Blossom was a researcher on the NIHR’s Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) programme, which supports the delivery of evidence-based mental health interventions in England in high-priority areas of mental health. As part of this project, Blossom evaluated MHIN’s implementation approach focusing on teams, prioritisation and sustainability using implementation science frameworks.
Blossom completed her PhD at Roehampton University investigating social and cognitive factors affecting development and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based intervention outcomes. Blossom has extensively taught on clinical and developmental psychology modules at Durham University, and researched factors that affect children and young people’s mental health in the UK and low- and middle-income countries, at the University of Oxford.
Blossom is a mixed method researcher with a wide background in quantitative and qualitative research. She is interested in working on projects that focus on improving mental health intervention outcomes using implementation science and co-production.
Key publications
Essau CA & Fernandes B. Assessment of Common and Transdiagnostic Approaches. In: Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: New Contributions to Research and Practice. Oxford: Hogrefe Publishing; 2024.
Carey EG, Adeyemi FO, Neelakantan L, Fernandes B, Fazel M, Ford T, et al. Preferences on governance models for mental health data: Qualitative study with young people. JMIR Formative Research. 2024;8:e50368.
Fernandes B, Neelakantan L, Shah H, Sumant S, Collins PY, Velloza J, et al. Evidencing the impact of web-based coproduction with youth on mental health research: Qualitative findings from the MindKind study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2023;9:e42963.
Fernandes B, Wright M, Essau CA. The role of emotion regulation and executive functioning in the intervention outcome of children with emotional and behavioural problems. Children. 2023;10:139.