Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Research, University of Brighton. Having an interdisciplinary background, her research focuses on promoting wellbeing and development of children and young individuals taking into account biological and contextual risk and protective factors. Her current research emphasizes community-university partnerships and aims to develop a resilient system of evidence based community support for children and young individuals that will in turn improve their psychosocial/cognitive development, wellbeing, educational outcomes, health and quality of life. Dr Eryigit-Madzwamuse has extensive experience in developing research designs and data analysis strategies.