Pasco Fearon

Pasco is a developmental and clinical psychologist doing world-leading research on child development and children’s mental health. Previously Joint-director of UCL’s Clinical Psychology Course for 10 years, he is Director of the Children of the 2020s Study, a nationally representative birth cohort study funded by the Department of Education, and a co-director of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study, funded by the ESRC.

Pasco works internationally, with key collaborations in the USA, Netherlands, Canada, South Africa, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Lebanon. He is also closely involved in children’s mental health policy, through his work at the Anna Freud Centre and as a trustee of the charity Foundation Years Information Research.