Dr Kylee Trevillion is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. She is a mixed-methods researcher who specialises in women’s mental health, conducting research on practice and policy responses to violence and abuse in the context of mental illness, and perinatal mental health. Kylee has a PhD in psychiatry from the IoPPN and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Kylee is the Deputy Director on the National Institute for Health Research Mental Health Policy Research  Unit. She hold two current research grants:

• Chief Investigator on the RIVA study – an evaluation of the implementation of domestic abuse advocacy programmes in NHS Trust;
• Co-applicant on a MRC grant that seeks to examine the impact of social media and smartphone use on self-harm among young people.

Her previous grants include:

• King’s College London lead on the MiMOS study - a National Institute for Health Research grant examining the effectiveness of Sexual Assault Referral Centres in addressing the mental health and substance use needs of clients;
• King’s College London lead on the For Baby’s Sake  study  - an evaluation of a new whole-family domestic abuse intervention targeted to reduce abuse and improve parent-child relationships and child development.

Kylee has also acted as programme manager on the ESMI study, an NIHR programme grant on the effectiveness of perinatal mental health services. She has conducted several systematic reviews that investigate the relationship between domestic abuse and mental disorders and I have piloted interventions of domestic violence advocacy within mental health services. 

Research interests

• Violence, abuse and mental health
• Perinatal mental health research
• Mixed-methods research

Teaching

• Delivers both subject-specific and methodological lectures on BSc and MSc programmes at the IoPPN.
• Runs an MSc module on systematic reviewing.
• Supervise PhD students as primary and second/third supervisor.
• Supervise BSc and MSc student dissertations.

Expertise and public engagement

Kelly is passionate about ensuring research on violence/abuse and mental health, and perinatal mental health is more accessible to the public. She is proactive in undertaking public engagement activities – presenting her work at academic and public engagement events both nationally and internationally.

Listen to the public-facing podcast interview about this work.