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Fiona is a Research Fellow in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences. Her current work focuses on brief solution focused approaches to promote wellbeing amongst school students and staff. She also recently worked on a study adapting the video feedback intervention for positive parenting (VIPP) for mothers using perinatal mental health services. She is interested in child and adolescent mental health, particularly children with experiences of trauma or adversity, and the professionals who work with them.
Prior to joining City, Fiona worked on several research projects at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families, University of Hertfordshire, and St. George’s University of London, with children and the professionals surrounding them in social care, CAMHS and education. She completed her PhD at University College London, which explored psychoanalytic ways of working with children living in foster care.
Qualifications
• PhD Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, University College London, UK
• MSc. Forensic Psychology, University of Surrey, UK
• BSc. (Hons) Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
• Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
Publications
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Journal articles (10)
- Robinson, F., Jackson, T. and McCabe, R. (2026). SOLutions In Schools (SOLIS): implementing and evaluating staff training in solution focused practice to support student-staff communication, relationships, and wellbeing. Frontiers in Education, 11. doi:10.3389/feduc.2026.1809841
- Ghataorhe Johnson, K., Robinson, F. and McCabe, R. (2026). Solution Focused Practice Delivered by Teachers, School Staff and Student Peers: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. Journal of Solution Focused Practices, 10(1). doi:10.59874/001c.156046
- Barnicot, K., Stevens, E., Robinson, F., Labovitch, S., Ballman, R., Miele, M.... Iles, J. (2025). Video feedback for young babies and maternal perinatal mental illness: intervention adaptation, feasibility and acceptability. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 43(5), pp. 1214-1230. doi:10.1080/02646838.2024.2322636
- Robinson, F. and McCabe, R. (2024). Co-designing a Whole-school Solution Focused Programme With Students, Staff, and Parents and Carers to Improve Communication and Wellbeing. Journal of Solution Focused Practices, 8(2). doi:10.59874/001c.123184
- Robinson, F. and Midgley, N. (2024). Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting. Journal of Social Work Practice, 38(1), pp. 51-70. doi:10.1080/02650533.2023.2234632
- Robinson, F., Luyten, P. and Midgley, N. (2020). The child psychotherapists’ role in consultation work with the professional network around looked after children. Journal of Social Work Practice, 34(3), pp. 309-324. doi:10.1080/02650533.2019.1618803
- Robinson, F., Luyten, P. and Midgley, N. (2017). Child psychotherapy with looked after and adopted children: a UK national survey of the profession. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 43(2), pp. 258-277. doi:10.1080/0075417x.2017.1324506
- Mezey, G., Robinson, F., Gillard, S., Mantovani, N., Meyer, D., White, S.... Bonell, C. (2017). Tackling the problem of teenage pregnancy in looked‐after children: a peer mentoring approach. Child & Family Social Work, 22(1), pp. 527-536. doi:10.1111/cfs.12225
- Mezey, G., Robinson, F., Campbell, R., Gillard, S., Macdonald, G., Meyer, D.... White, S. (2015). Challenges to undertaking randomised trials with looked after children in social care settings. Trials, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s13063-015-0708-z
- Mezey, G., Meyer, D., Robinson, F., Bonell, C., Campbell, R., Gillard, S.... White, S. (2015). Developing and piloting a peer mentoring intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in looked-after children and care leavers: an exploratory randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment, 19(85), pp. 1-510. doi:10.3310/hta19850