Climate change and adolescent mental health: from exposure to mechanims

One of my research streams looks at how environmental stressors, social inequalities, and policy contexts shape young people’s wellbeing across diverse settings. A strong set of research opportunities would build on my expertise in adolescent mental health and population-level data while integrating climate-related exposures and vulnerabilities. This could include longitudinal studies examining how climate anxiety, extreme weather events, or environmental degradation affect adolescent mental health trajectories across countries and socioeconomic groups. There is also scope for mixed-methods research exploring adolescents’ lived experiences of climate stress, resilience, and coping, particularly among marginalized or displaced populations. Policy-oriented work could assess how climate adaptation and mitigation policies consider adolescent mental health, or evaluate school- and community-based interventions that promote psychological resilience in the face of climate change. Finally, cross-national comparative research linking climate indicators with mental health outcomes would align well with her background and contribute valuable evidence to both climate and youth mental health agendas.