The CORC Forum is CORC's flagship event each year with a large amount of attendees. It brings together members and colleagues from the mental health, research and education sectors, featuring inspirational and knowledgeable speakers around useful topics, which inspires discussion. It is ideal for expanding your knowledge of mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people: based on experience and research.
[Reflections from last year’s forum can be found here].
This year the CORC Forum takes places on Thursday 20 November 2025, 09:30 to 13:30.
Attendance is free to CORC members, with a fee of just £50 for non-members. Many of you attend each year, and we of course welcome anyone who hasn’t been before too.
This will be an online event, making it easily accessible to those across the UK and other countries.
Please use the booking link below to secure your place(s) and receive the event link access.
Please note: the number of spaces available may be restricted if required to keep numbers manageable.
2025 CORC Forum speakers and agenda
We look forward to welcoming Professor Eamon McCrory, Anna Freud’s CEO and Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at UCL as our keynote speaker this year. His talk will explore ‘Trauma and the social world’. Eamon has undertaken extensive research exploring the complex relationship between the development of the brain, childhood trauma, the social world and mental health. His keynote presentation will include his recent work exploring the impacts of verbal abuse on children’s brains, perceptions and relationships.
Kate Dalzell, Head of Evidence-Led Improvement at Anna Freud, and Head of CORC will share recent evidence and developments in understanding and improving child and youth mental health outcomes from across the CORC network and beyond in her talk: Developments from the Child Outcomes Research Consortium.
We welcome Elizabeth Li, Project Manager (Umbrella Review), Anna Freud, and Lisa Coffman, Anna Freud and Barnett Parent-Carer Forum, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust to deliver their talk: Evidence on parenting support for parent carers of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs. Within this they will share brief findings from an umbrella review, meta-analysis, and qualitative meta-synthesis on parenting interventions for parent carers of disabled children and young people, and those with special educational needs, aged 0-25 years.
Two of our CORC members will be sharing how they have used evidence to support their work: Konrad Deckers Dowber, Managing Director of Advantage Mentoring will give an overview of Advantage Mentoring whilst focusing on their flagship children and young people's programme: Talking Tactics, highlighting the way in which they have harnessed the impact and evidence gained along the way to progress their mission. We will also hear from Mya Goschalk, Senior Impact and Insight Manager at Jami (part of Jewish Care), her talk: Jami's journey in outcome measures: learning and impact will share the highlights, hurdles and lessons learned as they've worked to make data meaningful and to shape their service delivery.
Dr Simona Rasciute, Associate Professor in Economics at Loughborough University will give a talk on: Health, Wellbeing and Place: Developing Data Infrastructure and Models to Identify Inequality Drivers. Loughborough University, in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), are undertaking research into the drivers of child mental ill health. The presentation will give an overview of the project, which has been led by Dr Simona Rasciute and Louise Vesely-Shore MBE (ONS). Further information about this work is outlined in the agenda download.
And finally, Lee Atkins, Regional Improvement Officer at CORC will explore identified challenges and provide recommendations for improving practice with his talk: Launching new CORC guidance: developing effective outcome measurement as part of mental health support for neurodivergent children and young people. In this session you will learn more about why and how the guidance has been developed, and how it can be used to enhance mental health support for neurodivergent children and young people.
You can download the agenda, with timings here:
Speaker biographies
Eamon McCrory
Professor Eamon McCrory is Chief Executive at Anna Freud and Co-Director of the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit at UCL. Eamon has led Anna Freud’s since September 2024, having long served as its Co-Director of the Clinical, and Education and Training teams. He is also a co-founder and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council and a Professor at UCL.
Kate Dalzell
Kate Dalzell is Head of Evidence-led Improvement at Anna Freud. She lead's CORC's research, informatics and service support teams in taking forward CORC's mission: promoting the meaningful use of evidence to improve child and youth mental health and wellbeing. Her experience is in mental health and wellbeing measurement approaches, evaluation, development of outcome frameworks and needs assessment.
Elizabeth Li
Elizabeth Li holds a PhD in Developmental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy from UCL and Anna Freud. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and works as a Module Lead/Co-Lead, Senior Course Tutor, and Research Tutor at UCL/Anna Freud. Alongside her teaching roles, she is Senior Research Fellow on the RESET study, with research interests in psychotherapy processes and outcomes, developmental psychopathology, and evidence synthesis.
Konrad Deckers Dowber
Konrad Deckers Dowber is Managing Director of Advantage Mentoring. He is passional about using sport for good and providing opportunities to those communities that need ti most having worked at the intersection of social purpose and football for his entire career.
Mya Goschalk
Mya Goschalk is Senior Impact and Insight Manager at Jami (part of Jewish Care). Mya has over a decade of experience in the charity sector, spanning international development, mental health and community engagement. She is committed to embedding impact practice into organisational culture, ensuring that data and insights become a meaningful and accessible tool for driving change at every level.
Simona Rasciute
Dr Simona Rasciute is Associate Professor in Economics at Loughborough University, specialising in the analysis of the determinants of health and wellbeing and its relationship with social and human capital, through the application of advanced econometric techniques to large-scale survey and administrative datasets. She is particularly interested in wider determinants of children and young people's mental health.
Lee Atkins
Lee Atkins is Regional Improvement Officer at the Child Outcomes Research Consortium. Lee supports organisations and services to develop their evidence based and outcome focussed approach for service improvement. Lee developed his passion for this work supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people over 12 years across voluntary and statutory sectors.
Cost
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Free
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Free
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£50
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