Dr Yulia Shenderovich
Senior Lecturer, DECIPHer
- shenderovichy@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0695
- 1-3 Museum Place
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I have joined Cardiff University in 2021, and I am based at the recently established Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health and DECIPHer (Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement), within the School of Social Sciences.
I am interested in programmes and policies that can promote youth mental health and prevent violence affecting young people, and, more broadly, in the factors that support young people to thrive. I am especially interested in the issues of programme implementation and scale-up in low-resource settings.
Methodologically, my experience includes quantitative and mixed-methods research within randomised trials and other types of impact evaluations, as well as process evaluations, cohort studies, and systematic reviews.
Biography
Key professional experience
- 2019-2021: Postdoctoral Research Officer, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 2018-2019: Analyst, Education Research Group (Home Affairs and Social Policy), RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK
- 2016: Coordinator, Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 2015-2016: Project Manager, Parenting for Lifelong Health for Parents and Teens (Randomized Controlled Trial), King William’s Town, South Africa
Education
- 2014-2018: PhD, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
- 2011-2013: MPhil (with distinction), Evidence-Based Social Intervention, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
- 2007-2011: BA in Political Science and International Relations & Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Bulgaria
Leadership and academic citizenship
- 2019-2021: Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
- 2020-2021: Research Ethics Committee reviewer at the Department of Social Policy & Intervention, University of Oxford
- 2021-present: Peer Reviewer, Education Endowment Foundation
- 2020-2021: Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)-Oxford University Peer Review College member
Professional memberships
- 2020-present: Board of Directors, Global Implementation Society
- 2020-present: Member of the Catalyst Network, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences
- 2020-present: Member of the Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Well-Being hosted by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the World Health Organization
Publications
2021
- Cluver, L.et al. 2021. Clinic and care: associations with adolescent antiretroviral therapy adherence in a prospective cohort in South Africa. AIDS 35(8), pp. 1263-1271. (10.1097/QAD.0000000000002882)
- Martin, M.et al. 2021. A mixed methods evaluation of the large-scale implementation of a school- and community-based parenting program to reduce violence against children in Tanzania: a study protocol. Implementation Science Communications 2, article number: 52. (10.1186/s43058-021-00154-5)
- Casale, M.et al. 2021. Bullying and ART nonadherence among South African ALHIV: effects, risks, and protective factors. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 86(4), pp. 436-444. (10.1097/QAI.0000000000002574)
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2021. The science of scale for violence prevention: a new agenda for family strengthening in low- and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Public Health 9, article number: 581440. (10.3389/fpubh.2021.581440)
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2021. Relationships with caregivers and mental health outcomes among adolescents living with HIV: a prospective cohort study in South Africa. BMC Public Health 21, article number: 172. (10.1186/s12889-020-10147-z)
- Engel, D.et al. 2021. Safety and a supportive environment - essential conditions for adolescent wellbeing. Discussion Paper. Adolescents 2030.
2020
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2020. Evaluating the dissemination and scale-up of two evidence-based parenting interventions to reduce violence against children: study protocol. Implementation Science Communications 1, article number: 109. (10.1186/s43058-020-00086-6)
- Martins, R.et al. 2020. Parental attendance in two early-childhood training programmes to improve nurturing care: a randomized controlled trial. Children and Youth Services Review 118, article number: 105418. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105418)
- Cluver, L. D.et al. 2020. Violence prevention accelerators for children and adolescents in South Africa: A path analysis using two pooled cohorts. PLoS Medicine 17(11), article number: e1003383. (10.1371/journal.pmed.1003383)
- Cluver, L.et al. 2020. Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa. Social Science and Medicine 262, article number: 113194. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113194)
- Valdebenito, S.et al. 2020. Evidence for better lives study: A comparative birth-cohort study on child exposure to violence and other adversities in eight low-and middle-income countries-foundational research (study protocol). BMJ Open 10(10), article number: e034986. (10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034986)
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2020. Moderators of treatment effects in a child maltreatment prevention programme in South Africa. Child Abuse and Neglect 106, article number: 104519. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104519)
2019
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2019. Delivering a parenting program in South Africa: the impact of implementation on outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies 28(4), pp. 1005-1017. (10.1007/s10826-018-01319-y)
2018
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2018. What affects attendance and engagement in a parenting program in South Africa?. Prevention Science 19(7), pp. 977-986. (10.1007/s11121-018-0941-2)
- Steinert, J. I.et al. 2018. Do saving promotion interventions increase household savings, consumption, and investments in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review and meta-analysis. World Development 104, pp. 238-256. (10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.11.018)
- Murray, J.et al. 2018. Risk factors for antisocial behavior in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of longitudinal studies. Crime and Justice 47(1), pp. 255-364. (10.1086/696590)
- Cluver, L. D.et al. 2018. Parenting for lifelong health: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a non-commercialised parenting programme for adolescents and their families in South Africa. BMJ Global Health 3(1), article number: e000539. (10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000539)
2017
- Higginson, A.et al. 2017. Factors associated with youth gang membership in low- and middle- income countries: a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews 14(1), pp. 1-128. (10.4073/csr.2018.11)
- Doubt, J.et al. 2017. “It has changed”: understanding change in a parenting program in South Africa. Annals of Global Health 83(5-6), pp. 767-776. (10.1016/j.aogh.2017.10.021)
2016
- Cluver, L.et al. 2016. Reducing child abuse amongst adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a pre-post trial in South Africa. BMC Public Health 16, article number: 567. (10.1186/s12889-016-3262-z)
- Cluver, L.et al. 2016. A parenting programme to prevent abuse of adolescents in South Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 17, article number: 328. (10.1186/s13063-016-1452-8)
- Shenderovich, Y.et al. 2016. Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Medical Research Methodology 16, article number: 32. (10.1186/s12874-016-0134-2)
2015
- Higginson, A.et al. 2015. Preventive interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews 11(1), pp. 1-176. (10.4073/csr.2015.18)
- Shenderovich, Y., Thurston, A. and Miller, S. 2015. Cross-age tutoring in kindergarten and elementary school settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Educational Research 76, pp. 190-210. (10.1016/j.ijer.2015.03.007)
- Pantelic, M.et al. 2015. Predictors of internalised HIV-related stigma: a systematic review of studies in sub-Saharan Africa. Health Psychology Review 9(4), pp. 469-490. (10.1080/17437199.2014.996243)
2014
- Higginson, A.et al. 2014. PROTOCOL: Predictors of youth gang membership in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews 10(1), pp. 1-67. (10.1002/CL2.126)
2013
- Higginson, A.et al. 2013. Protocol for a systematic review: Preventive interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews 9(1), pp. 1-80. (10.1002/CL2.118)
Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- family- and school-focused approaches to supporting youth mental health (parenting programmes in particular)
- epidemiology and prevention of violence against children
- implementation and scale-up of complex interventions in low-resource settings