Dr Jennifer Allen, Director of the SHINE research lab (www.shineresearchlab.com), is a Reader and Director of Research on the DClinPsy programme. She is also a HCPC-registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS), specialising in child emotional and behavioural disorders. The SHINE research lab is dedicated to understanding the role of environmental factors in shaping risk pathways to child psychopathology, and the translation of models of risk and resilience into school and family-based interventions. Our work is also designed to inform practitioners how to best support adults who children most rely on for their social and emotional well-being: their parents and teachers. 

Dr Allen has a strong commitment to the training and dissemination of evidence-based treatment, which led to the recent (2021) publication of a practitioner textbook: Family-based Intervention for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Core Competencies Approach, published by Cambridge University Press, with fellow editors David Hawes (University of Sydney) and Cecilia Essau (University of Roehampton). 

Dr Allen and Dr David Hawes are currently co-editing a special issue on 'Adverse childhood experiences: A developmental psychopathology perspective' for the international journal Research on Child and Adolesent Psychopathology. For details, see here: https://link.springer.com/collections/hdbiahbbhd

PhD, MRes and DClinPsy Supervision

Jennifer Allen is available to supervise the following themes:

• CU traits and antisocial behaviour in the school context (e.g., teacher-child or peer interaction).

• ​Child and adolescent antisocial behaviour or ADHD and physical health

• ​​ADHD: early vs. late diagnosis, risk and protective factors

• Family or school-based intervention (focused on promoting positive interactions and relationships)

MRes and PhD applicants with an interest in secondary data analysis of Millenium Cohort Study (MCS) data are particularly encouraged to get in contact. The MCS is a British longitudinal cohort study, which began in 2000 and has followed children up to 17 years currently. For more information, see: https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-cohort-study/