Helen is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology and Sport Science and a Visiting Professor at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica.  Helen’s research focuses on early childhood interventions to promote child development, behaviour and mental health and to prevent violence against children in low and middle-income countries.

Helen leads the Irie Toolbox Team within CAIHR, UWI whose work involves designing, implementing, evaluating and scaling up interventions to prevention violence against children at home and at school.

Helen is also a member of the Reach-Up team. Reach Up is an evidence-based, early childhood parenting intervention implemented in more than twenty countries across the Caribbean and Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, Africa, and with refugee populations in the Middle East.

h.henningham@bangor.ac.uk

  • MSc: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
    Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology, King's College London, 2008
  • PhD: International Child Health
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 2003
  • MSc: Community Disability Studies for Developing Countries
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 1998

Helen teaches a module entitled 'Global Early Childhood' at the Masters level

Helen's main research interests are in the design, implementation, evaluation and scaling of early childhood interventions to promote child development and behaviour and to prevent violence against children in low and middle-income countries. She is currently working on research projects in Jamaica, Bangladesh, Colombia,  Indonesia and Kenya.

Funded projects: Studentship opportunities within the school can be found at https://www.bangor.ac.uk/studentfinance/postgraduate/funding#psychology

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  • CyhoeddwydThe Irie Classroom Toolbox
    Baker-Henningham, H., 2017, University of the West Indies.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr

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