About

Prof. Jenny Gibson is Professor of Neurodiversity and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Jenny leads the Play and Communication Lab research group. She is also a co-director of PEDAL the centre for research on Play in Education, Development and Learning, and a co-director of CHIA, the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Jenny is also a qualified speech and language therapist, specialising in autism and developmental language disorder.

Research

Jenny’s research focuses on:

• Human development, flourishing, and neurodiversity
• Autism and developmental language disorder
• Developmental psychology with interdisciplinary influences (disability studies, linguistics, computer science, psychiatry, literary studies, education)
• Play and its links to mental health, wellbeing, social and linguistic development
• Challenging deficit-focused narratives around neurodivergence and play