Rate My Professor Zara Mansoor

Mansoor's research centers on child, adolescent, and family mental health, with emphases on parent and whānau-based interventions, evaluating mental health interventions in real-world settings, co-design methodologies, child development, and cross-cultural psychology. She contributes to projects evaluating a novel university-based Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy training programme and supporting the health and wellbeing of rangatahi living with psychosis. Her key publications include "What matters most to young people and families receiving mental health treatment? A co-design approach to inform outcomes in a randomised control trial of Tuning in to Teens" (Mental Health & Prevention, 2025, with Bell, Stanley, Buchanan, and Fortune); "Lived Experience of Health and Wellbeing Among Young People with Early Psychosis in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Community Mental Health Journal, 2024, with Chinn et al.); "Protective factors for psychosocial outcomes following cumulative childhood adversity: systematic review" (BJPsych Open, 2023, with Buchanan et al.); "Evaluating an emotion coaching programme for parents of young adolescents attending CAMHS in New Zealand" (Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2023); and "A realist review of residential treatment for adults with substance use disorder" (Drug and Alcohol Review, 2023, with De Salis et al.). In 2021, she received the Health Research Council Career Development Award valued at $245,356 over 30 months and won the best presentation award in the early-candidature category at the department's Graduate Research Students Symposium.