Jacqueline is a social psychologist whose expertise lies at the intersection between education and healthcare interventions for the psychosocial wellbeing of youth in socially excluded communities. She is a chartered member and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with a PhD and MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Jacqueline joined the University of Portsmouth in 2017, having held previous research and teaching appointments at Bournemouth University, LSE and Middlesex University, including the projects ‘Communicating bottom-up social development’, ‘Underground Sociabilities’ and ‘Making Connections’. She has recently completed the ESRC-funded project titled ‘Resilience and porosity of city borders: A psychosocial investigation in three Brazilian cities’ (Co-I; PI Prof Sandra Jovchelovitch). Her research portfolio also includes ‘AURAL: Assessing Undergraduate Research Assistants’ Learning through participatory methods’ and ‘Students who bounce back: A research project with student carers’ (PI, Bournemouth University).

As a qualitative data analysis software trainer for the MAXQDA and QDA Miner packages, Jacqueline is actively engaged in university-based consultancy and academic training.