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Samantha Johnson is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Child Development in the Department of Population Health Sciences, and a member of the Health and Wellbeing Research Group in the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour. Samantha has experience in the design and conduct of longitudinal cohort studies and clinical trials of perinatal and neonatal interventions. She has contributed to the development of clinical guidelines and standards of care for follow up care for babies admitted to neonatal care after birth.

Samantha has a programme of research focused on understanding and improving long term neurodevelopmental outcomes for children born at risk and on developing outcome assessments for use in clinical services and research. She is particularly interested in the impact of gestational age at birth on health and wellbeing and the long term consequences of preterm birth on children’s cognitive, mental health and educational outcomes. Working with colleagues from multiple disciplines, she has developed resources to help teachers and parents support preterm born children in schools which are freely .

• Sequelae of preterm birth.
• Improving educational support for children born preterm
• Development and evaluation of interventions to improve long-term outcomes in high-risk populations.
• Perinatal clinical trials.
• Neurodevelopmental outcome assessment.

Current projects

• 2021-2025: . Co-Investigator. Funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment (£344,446).
• 2021-2027: . Co-investigator. Funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment (£2,997,591).
• 2021-2022: . Co-Investigator. Funded by Action Medical Research (£151,287).
• 2017-2021: . Co-Investigator. Funded by Action Medical Research (£134,594). For a summary of the project see the website of .
• 2014-2020: - Co-investigator. Funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment (£2,412,174).
• 2021-2023: Modi N, Johnson S, Lek E, Godambe S, Fukari-Irvine E, Tusor N, Ogundipe E, Eyre E, Belazel D, Wardle S, Arasu A, Cornelius V. - Co-investigator. Imperial College London.

Peer reviewed journal papers

• Bamber D, Collins HE, Powell C, Goncalves GC, Johnson S, Manktelow B, Ornelas JP, Lopes JC, Rocha A, Draper ES. . BMC Medical Research Methodology 2022;22:8.
• Kim SW, Andronis L, Seppanen AV, Aubert A, Zeitlin J, Barros H, Draper ES, Petrou S on behalf of the SHIPS Research Group. . Pediatric Research 2021, E Pub.
• Trickett, J. Bernardi, M. Fahy, A. Lancaster, R., Larsen, J., Ni, Y., Suonpera, E., Wolke, D. Marlow, N. Johnson, S. . Child Neuropsychology 2022, EPub ahead of print.
• Jaekel J, Anderson PJ, Cheong JLY, Doyle LW, Johnson S, Marlow N, Saigal S, Schmidt L, Sullivan MC, Wolke D. . Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2021, EPub ahead of print
• Sentenac M, Chaimani A, Twilhaar S, Morgan A, Benhammou V, Johnson S, Zeitlin J. . Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2021.
• Anderson PJ, de Miranda D, Albuquerque MR, Indredavik MS, Evenson KAI, van Lieshout R, Saigal S, Tylor HG, Raikkonen K, Marlow N, Johnson S, Woodward LJ, Austin N, Nosarti C, Jaekel J, Wolke D, Cheong, JL,Y, Burnett A, Lee KJ, Doyle LW, Kajante E, Treyvaud K. . EClinical Medicine 2021;42:101216.
• Nourkami-Tutdibi N, Tutdibi E, Faas T, Wagenpfeil G, Draper ES, Johnson S, Cuttini M, El Rafei R, Seppänen A-V, Mazela JL, Maier RF, Nuytten A, Barros H, Rodrigues C, Zeitlin J, Zemlin M on behalf of the EPICE Research Group. . Frontiers in Pediatrics 2021;9:Article 747203.
• Retzler J, Johnson S, Groom MJ, Cragg L. , published online 31/10/2021.
• Ni Y, Johnson S, Marlow N, Wolke D. . Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2021;0:F1–F6, published online 25/10/2021.
• Ni Y, Mendonca M, Baumann N, Eves R, Kajante E, Hovi P, Tikanmaki M, Raikkonen K, Hainonen K, Indredavik MS, Evenson KAI, Johnson S, Marlow N, Wolke D. . Pediatrics November 2021;148(5): e2021051986.

• Member of the (BACD) Strategic Research Group (SRG) (From 2020)
• Member of the (BANNFU); Special Interest Group of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (From 2020)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for
• Expert Adviser for the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Centre for Guidelines (From 2017)
• Member of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Quality Standard Advisory Committee (QSAC) for the guideline (2017-2018)
• Developmental Psychologist for the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guideline Committee for the (2015-2017)
• Invited member of the European Foundation for Care of Newborn Infants Topic Expert Group for “Follow-up and continuing care” for the development of
• Member of the Advisory Group
• Member of the
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the SPRING Study
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board