Professor Sally Merry is a New Zealand based child and adolescent psychiatrist, who has had a longstanding research interest in the development and implementation of effective therapies in child and adolescent mental health including computerised and phone-based interventions.  She led research on SPARX, an effective computerised intervention for adolescent depression which is now a national e-therapy service in New Zealand.  Her studies include among others those into digital interventions to support effective parenting practices.