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Sonuga-Barke ESRC Impact of global early institutional deprivation during emerging adulthood

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Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Professor Jana Kreppner

Professor

Research interests

  • Jana's work focusses on the impact of early experience on development. She is particularly interested in the role of relationship experiences, especially caregiver-child and peer/friend relationships, in typical and atypical development. Jana studies factors that influence relationship experiences as well as the effects and correlates of such relationship experiences on children’s development. Jana uses this knowledge to inform the development of relationship-based interventions to promote children and young people’s wellbeing. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, NIHR, the Waterloo Foundation and the Welcome Trust. Jana's research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has extensive experience conducting longitudinal research across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Jana is currently involved in a range of interdisciplinary collaborations which span Psychiatry, Paediatric Neurology, Psychology, Education, Social Work, Public Policy, and Law.
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Research outputs

Adult disinhibited social engagement (DSE) in adoptees exposed to extreme institutional deprivation
Mark Kennedy, Jana Kreppner, Nicola H. Knights, Robert Kumsta, Barabara Maughan, Dennis Golm, Jonathan Hill, Michael Rutter, Wolff Schlotz & Edmund Sonuga-Barke, 2017, British Journal of Psychiatry, 211(5), 289-295
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.117.200618
Type: article
Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study
Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Mark Kennedy, Robert Kumsta, Nicky Knights, Dennis Golm, Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan, Wolff Schlotz & Jana Kreppner, 2017, The Lancet, 389(10078), 1539-1548
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30045-4
Type: article
Severe psychosocial deprivation in early childhood is associated with increased DNA methylation across a region spanning the transcription start site of CYP2E1
2016, Translational Psychiatry, 6(6), e830
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.95
Type: article
Early severe institutional deprivation is associated with a persistent variant of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Clinical presentation, developmental continuities and life circumstances in the English and Romanian Adoptees study.
Mark Kennedy, Jana Kreppner, Nicola Knights, Robert Kumsta, Barbara Maughan, Dennis Golm, Michael Rutter, Wolff Schlotz & Edmund Sonuga-Barke, 2016, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(10), 1113-1125
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12576
Type: article
Update on the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study
Jana Kreppner & Edmund Sonuga-Barke, 2016, Psychology Review, 21(4), 2-5
Type: article