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Professor Jess Deighton

Jess Deighton

Director of the Applied Research and Evaluation Division / Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing

Anna Freud/ University College London

Pronouns: She/Her


Jess Deighton is Director of the Applied Research and Evaluation Division at Anna Freud and Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing at UCL. Jess leads a range of large-scale national research programmes including HeadStart and Education for Wellbeing. She is also a senior researcher for the National Institute of Health Research Child Policy Research Unit.

Consortium: University of Oxford, Ecorys, UCL, Anna Freud and University of Cambridge

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Working closely with policy teams from DHSC and DfE to provide formative evaluation findings and to inform ongoing policy decision-making. Guided by a Parent/Carer Advisory Group (PCAG) with lived experience of age 0-2 services.

This project has received funding from the DHSC and DfE, and has NHS Research Ethics Committee approval [IRAS Project ID: 328860].