Speaker
Pamela Qualter
Professor of Psychology for Education, University of Manchester
Biography
Pamela Qualter specializes in child and adolescent loneliness. Her research focuses on the developmental trajectories and outcomes of loneliness in young people. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and collaborates internationally to develop interventions addressing youth loneliness. Passionate about social change, she advocates for a contextualized understanding of how disparities in loneliness emerge and how they can be addressed through structural interventions; in relation to youth, she advocates for changes to schools systems so they are more inclusive.