Jennifer McGowan is a lecturer (teaching) for Experimental Psychology. She has a PhD in health psychology and epidemiology, and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her teaching role includes coordinating the external placements of MSci students into clinical and industrial settings, lectures on quantitative and qualitative research methods, Learning and memory, Ageing, Mindfulness, and Adolescence. 

Jennifer is the founder and lead of the global Resilience Research Group. The group’s aim is to develop a collaborative group of resilience researchers, in order to develop high quality resilience research. This includes developing research and dissemination opportunities to raise member profiles, supporting early career researchers into funding, and developing and consolidating the resilience field. We also work with local councils to evaluate resilience interventions.

Jennifer is a health psychologist and epidemiologist by background. Her research interests are focused primarily on health and positive psychology. I am interested in projects into:

• Positive psychology, resilience, and physical well-being
• Public health (well-being, smoking, cancer, sexual well-being, lifespan ageing)
• Sexual well-being in regards to abnormal sexuality

To date her research has explored the biopsychosocial well-being of adults ageing with HIV in relation to both age and time with diagnosed HIV; cancer and smoking; adolescent health and well-being; and the evaluation of resilience interventions in clinicians and schools.