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.

h.henningham@bangor.ac.uk

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.

Helen teaches a module entitled 'Global Early Childhood' at the Masters level