Nursery World - Dr Ian Robson, associate professor at Northumbria University, on his action plan for infant mental health

Dr Robson has won the AiMH UK Louise Emanuel Award for his commitment to Newcastle City Council’s 1001 Critical Days Think Tank and research into infant mental health.

Dr Ian Robson

TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK AS CO-CHAIR OF THE THINK-TANK?

I co-chair the think-tank and partnership with my colleague Sally Noden, who works for Action for Children and is Newcastle’s Inner West locality lead. My professional background involves being an area lead for (then) Sure Start Children’s Centres, our family has fostered many babies, and my university teaching and research is concerned with children, so it’s a subject close to my heart.

Sally and I work with the think-tank to foster relationships, and the understanding and trust that comes from that is the basis for our questions, listening, organising and influencing. I support a shared conversation between organisations that want to see Newcastle as an even better place to be born and to grow up. Our think-tank, and wider city partnership, have an action plan, we run a popular annual conference and we are always extending our activity with plans for a seminar series.

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