Educational content specialist with extensive experience in, wellbeing and school improvement.

Tracey Riseborough is the Content Manager at BrainWaves, with over 30 years’ experience in educational publishing. She has held roles at Optimus Education, GL Assessment, Kinderly, McGraw Hill, Harcourt, Prentice Hall, Macmillan and David Fulton Publishers.

Her publishing expertise spans mental health, child development and wellbeing, the early years, and SEND. Tracey has published numerous teacher training textbooks, commissioned hundreds of CPD webinars, and developed multiple school improvement frameworks. She has also led the development, standardisation and rollout of large-scale psychological and child development assessments, including the first UK assessment of anxiety and depression in young people, and a national child development assessment across Wales that involved training thousands of health visitors.

Contribution to BrainWaves
Tracey leads the development of the BrainWaves education programme, including a whole-school wellbeing curriculum of over 20 lessons for young people aged 11-18. She also oversees the creation of high-quality educational resources, including webinars, training courses and CPD events. Her work supports BrainWaves’ mission to empower young people to live well through informed choices, positive behaviours and healthy attitudes.