Jess Deighton

Professor Jess Deighton is Director of Applied Research and Evaluation at Anna Freud and Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing at UCL.

She leads a range of large-scale national research programmes including the national evaluation of the National Lottery Community Fund’s HeadStart programme and the Department for Education-funded Education for Wellbeing programme.

She is also a senior researcher for the Department of Health’s Child Policy Research Unit.