Jenny Burton

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Jenny Burton is a Research Fellow working within the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention (CEBI) group in the Department. She is currently working with Dr Paul Montgomery and Dr Alex Richardson as Trial Co-ordinator for the DHA Oxford Learning and Behaviour (DOLAB) study. This study is looking at the effects of dietary supplementation with DHA (an OMEGA fatty acid) on children's learning and behaviour. The study will involve 360 children aged 7 to 9 years from mainstream Oxfordshire primary schools. Prior to this she was involved in three different studies being undertaken by members of CEBI: (i) with Professor Frances Gardner on a collaborative study with researchers in the USA funded by the National Institute of Health and National Institute of Mental Health, assessing a prevention trial with high risk two-year olds in Pittsburg; (ii) with Dr Paul Montgomery conducting a systematic review on “Home visits for the prevention of cognitive and functional impairment; (iii) with Dr Don Operario (in collaboration with the University of California) on an National Institute of Drug Abuse/National Institute of Health funded study on Gender, Relationship Dynamics and HIV Risk.

She has previously been involved in a pilot study of the family situation of priority and prolific offenders with Lynda Clarke of the Department of Health and Tropical Medicine, funded by the Thames Valley Partnership and has spent one-year working with Professor Jane Lewis of The London School of Economics, on an ESRC funded investigation into risk in intimate relationships. Previously she was employed on an Esmee Fairbairn Trust funded Randomized Control Trial of Parenting Programmes with Professor Gardner and worked in the Department of Psychiatry at the Park Hospital, Oxford, on a Wellcome Trust funded observational study of 3 year olds' play, development and behaviour in the home. Before that she worked for ten years as Research Assistant to Professor Christopher Fairburn of the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford on a variety of studies assessing Eating Disorders.