Professor Helen Baker-Henningham
Professor in Psychology
Links
- http://www.irietoolbox.com
Downloadable resources related to the IRIE Classroom Toolbox: a teacher-training, violence prevention programme for use with early childhood practitioners in low- and middle-income countries.
Contact info
h.henningham@bangor.ac.uk
Overview
Helen is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology and Sport Science and a Visiting Professor at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica. Helen’s research focuses on early childhood interventions to promote child development, behaviour and mental health and to prevent violence against children in low and middle-income countries.
Helen leads the Irie Toolbox Team within CAIHR, UWI whose work involves designing, implementing, evaluating and scaling up interventions to prevention violence against children at home and at school.
Helen is also a member of the Reach-Up team. Reach Up is an evidence-based, early childhood parenting intervention implemented in more than twenty countries across the Caribbean and Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, Africa, and with refugee populations in the Middle East.
Contact Info
h.henningham@bangor.ac.uk
Research
Helen's main research interests are in the design, implementation, evaluation and scaling of early childhood interventions to promote child development and behaviour and to prevent violence against children in low and middle-income countries. She is currently working on research projects in Jamaica, Bangladesh, Colombia, Indonesia and Kenya.
Teaching and Supervision
Helen teaches a module entitled 'Global Early Childhood' at the Masters level
Education / academic qualifications
- 2008 - MSc , Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- 2003 - PhD , International Child Health
- 1998 - MSc , Community Disability Studies for Developing Countries
Research outputs (67)
- Accepted/In press
A feasibility trial of an early childhood, violence prevention, parenting program integrated into early childhood educational provision in Jamaica: A study protocol
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Prevention of violence against children: a qualitative exploration of Colombian policymakers', program facilitators', and caregivers' perceptions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published