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Professor Jenny Hewison
Title
Professor of the Psychology of Healthcare
J.Hewison@leeds.ac.uk
Phone
0113 3431894 or contact Kat Garcia (PA) on 0113 3437354
Address
1.29 Charles Thackrah
101 Clarendon Road
Leeds
LS2 9LJ
BHRC Role
BHRC SSAC member
Research Interests
- Reproductive health & genetics
- Health technologies
About
- BA Hons Natural Sciences (Psychology) – University of Cambridge (1972)
- MSc Child Development – University of London (1973)
- PhD Psychology – University of London (1979)
Jenny has worked in Leeds since 1984, and was appointed to her current post in 2000.
Jenny has particular research interests in reproductive health and genetics, in the provision of information to help patients and the public use health services, in chronic illness and in screening. She also has more general methodological interests in the evaluation and assessment of health technologies and in the incorporation of service users’ perspectives into policy development and planning.
Grants Awarded
Improving patient and carer centred outcomes in longer-term stroke care – NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2007-12
Liason mental health services for older people: a literature review, service mapping and in-depth evaluation of service models – NHS R&D Service Delivery and Organisation Programme, 2005-8
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