Professor Pasco Fearon is Director of the Centre for Family Research. He is a developmental and clinical psychologist doing world-leading research on child development and children’s mental health.

Pasco’s research focuses on the caregiving factors involved in children’s psychological, emotional, cognitive and psychobiological development. Pasco is the 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.