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Dr Jenny Woodman
Associate Professor in Child and Family Policy
IOE - Social Research Institute
UCL Institute of Education
- Joined UCL
- 1st Nov 2011
Research summary
I am a public health researcher in child and family policy, with a strong focus on describing and evaluating public services for vulnerable child and their families. I work closely with policy and colleagues, including in my role as Co-Director of NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit.
Children’s Social Care Data User Group (CSC DUG) a knowledge exchange network that shares expertise between academic, third sector and government users of data from children's social care.
Teaching summary
I currently teach on UCL-Institute of Education's BSc in Social Science Course, MSc in Social Policy and Social Research and supervise undergraduate and masters students.
I currently have six doctoral students work on
- Using administrative data to understand household composition (single parents) and child health
- Variation in health visiting
- Health needs of mothers who have their children removed through the family courts
- Multi-agency safeguarding Hubs
- Family Drug and Alcohol Courts
- Virtual Schools and School Heads
Education
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | 2017
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2014
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Other higher degree, Master of Science | 2009
- King's College London
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 2005
- University of Cambridge
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 2001
Biography
I did my Masters in Public Health in 2008, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and moved straight into a PhD looking at how GPs respond to families who prompt concerns about child maltreatment.
Before coming to the UCL Social Research Institute in the Institute of Education, I worked in the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health where I did my PhD.