Dr Jenny Davison

Jenny Davison is a Lecturer in Psychology within the School of Psychology at Ulster University.  Jenny is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

She is a Division of Health Psychology (DHP) and DHPNI full member.  Jenny completed her PhD in Health Psychology at Ulster University in 2013.  Since then she has worked as a Research Fellow at both Ulster University and Queens University Belfast before returning to the School of Psychology at Ulster in 2019.

Jenny has a specific interest in child and adolescent health and wellbeing.  Current projects include: the Wellbeing in Schools (WiSe) study (funded by MRC); testing the feasibility of including young people experiencing intellectual disability in health and wellbeing research (funded by Baily Thomas); and theoretical applications to health including diet and physical activity, e-cigarette use (funded by NICH&S), and oral health.