Max Klapow

Max
Klapow, MPhil

Psychological interventions.
Digital mental health.
Research in the real world.

Hey! I’m Max. I study how psychological interventions are designed, experienced, and put into practice, particularly in complex environments.

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Research

How interventions work.
And how they fit.

My work connects intervention development, behavioural science, and implementation research. I’m interested in both the mechanisms that make an intervention helpful and the conditions that make it usable.

I use mixed methods, co-design, evidence synthesis, and experimental evaluation to examine those questions with researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Teaching & academic life

Ideas grow through
conversation.

I’m a final-year DPhil student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research. I teach individual differences in clinical psychology at Oxford and give guest lectures on intervention design and child and family mental health. I also mentor undergraduate and postgraduate students and serve on the Early Career Editorial Board of Prevention Science. I’m a Visiting Research Fellow in the Mental Health for All Lab at Harvard Medical School and hold research affiliations at King’s College London and the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico.Prevention Science. I'm also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Mental Health for All Lab at Harvard Medical School, and hold research affiliations at King’s College London and the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico.

Before my PhD, I completed Oxford’s MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and a BA in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Education, teaching & appointments

Research

Projects, collaborations, and the questions behind them.

Science communication

Talks, interviews, and public writing.

Collaboration and consultation

Science strategy, product research, and evaluation.