Jennifer Jenkins

Dr. Jennifer Jenkins is a renowned scholar of child development in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is the Academic Director of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study. Dr. Jenkins holds the Atkinson Charitable Foundation Chair in Early Child Development and Education and serves as the Director of the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development. She is a distinguished and internationally recognized scholar and a leader in the generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of child development and children’s mental health. Dr. Jenkins has taught courses in developmental psychopathology, and the management of behavior problems in classrooms.