The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Jennie's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Jennie
Jennie is a Research Fellow with the National Institute for Health and Care Research South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaborative (PenARC). She is working on the CAN-DO study - exploring how community assets can help address health disparities; and the Mental Health Research Initiative, helping to tackle the gap between local needs and mental health research activity.. Jennie is a qualitative social psychologist with a background in group interaction, creative facilitation, diagnosis, health and wellbeing. Jennie’s PhD, part of the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Exploring Diagnosis’, examined how clinicians make decisions about the diagnosis of autism spectrum conditions.Prior to her current post she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter aiming to understand what works about a child protection pathway re-design in partnership with practitioners in children's social care. She has also been an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Relational Health Team at the University of Exeter and a Research Associate at the University of Bristol researching how clinicians manage antibiotic prescribing in out-of-hours practice (the OPEN project).