Dr Jenny Gibson

University position

Lecturer

Dr Jenny Gibson is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Faculty of Education

Institutes

Centre for Research on the role of Play in Education Development and Learning

Email

jlg53@cam.ac.uk

Home page

https://jennygibson.github.io/ (personal home page)

Research Themes

Developmental Neuroscience

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Interests

Jenny’s research interests lie in the interplay between linguistic and social development from childhood through to adolescence. She studied at University of Manchester where she gained a BSc (Hons) in Speech and Language Therapy, before going on to win ESRC/MRC funding to complete a Master of Research in Psychology followed by a PhD. After her PhD, Jenny went on to do post-doctoral research in child and adolescent mental health in the Department of Developmental Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Jenny is a qualified Speech and Language Therapist and, although she has focused her career mainly on research, she has maintained her clinical registration specialising in assessment and treatment of complex language disorders and autism spectrum conditions

Research Focus

Keywords

Developmental Language Disorder

Play

Multilingualism

Autism

Education

Clinical conditions

Autism

Deafness

Dyslexia

Language disorders

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

GPS tracking

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

Cambridge

Sara Baker

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