RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr Alexis Carey works as both a health psychology practitioner and a researcher. academic focus centres on rights-based approaches to youth mental health, rights-based approaches, and health behaviour change.
She collaborates with government departments, universities, schools and the charity sector to translate lived experience into policy and practice that promotes psychological wellbeing for all.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Carey, A. et al. (2025). Amplify and Advocate: Implementing a Youth Mental Health Advocacy Project – A Collaborative Rights-Based Approach. Journal of Community Psychology.
Kazmierczak-Murray, S., Carey, A. et al. (2025). Developing National Guidance on Participation of Disabled Children and Young People. International Journal of Children’s Rights.
Carey, A., & Cunningham-Cowley, M. (2023). The Climate Crisis, Climate Anxiety and Children’s Rights. Irish Studies in International Affairs.
Carey, A., Povey, R. (2023). Group Sleep Intervention with Adolescents Using Youth Participation Methodology. Psychology in the Schools.
Carey, A., Povey, R., & Taylor, J. (2022). “Waiting out the day, not living, not fun”: Children’s Experiences of School Closures due to COVID-19. Preventing School Failure.
Selected Commissioned Reports & Policy Contributions
Growing Up in Ireland Consultation Report (3-Year-Old Cohort) – Department of Children, Disability, Equality and Integration (DCDE), 2025
National Youth Assembly on Gender Equality – DCEDIY & Department of Rural and Community Development, 2024
Guidance on Including Disabled Children and Young People in Decision-Making – DCEDIY & National Disability Authority, 2024