Dr Jennifer Lavoie
Chancellor's Fellow - Global Challenges/ Depute Head of Institute for Education, Community & Society (Research)
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: jennifer.lavoie@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Jennifer Lavoie is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Challenges at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS). Her research focuses on children’s perceptions of justice, specifically the development of the concept of justice, as well as the associated socio-cultural mechanisms associated with this development. She extends this research to study children’s interactions with the justice system, for example, disclosures of sensitive information such as maltreatment and child-centred justice models such as Barnahus. Jennifer has been a Fulbright Fellow (2017/18) at the University of California, Irvine, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2018/20), and a James Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of Sydney (2025).
Qualifications
PhD (McGill University)
Undergraduate teaching
Educational Studies 2a
Postgraduate teaching
Child & Adolescent Development
Children & the Justice System
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Jennifer is able to supervise PhD students who are working in the following topic areas:
Children and the justice system; Conceptualisations of Justice; Child maltreatment and child protection; child-friendly justice models; Forensic interviewing protocols; Forensic disclosure; Children; Adolescents; Developmental trajectories; Lying; Secrecy; Theory of mind; Justice; Moral development; Cognitive development; Parent socialisation and parenting
Research summary
Children and the justice system; child maltreatment and child protection; child-friendly justice models; forensic interviewing protocols; forensic disclosure; justice; developmental trajectories; lying; secrecy; theory of mind; social and moral development; cognitive development; conduct problems; parent socialisation and parenting