Theresa McShane is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, Fellow of QUB’s Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation (CESI) and member of the Research Centre for Stress, Trauma and Related Conditions (STARC). Her research is varied and focuses on vulnerable and hard to reach populations using innovative research methods including peer research with young people and co-design.  She has applied these methods in a diverse range of studies; with care leavers with mental health needs and disabilities; fathers parenting; socially vulnerable mothers; cancer caregivers; sexual health; and people who self-injure. ​In addition, Theresa is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and supervises postgraduate research students in The School of Psychology, QUB.