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Dr. Janet Mcnally

Dr. Janet Mcnally

Biography

Janet worked for 17 years in a range of roles in statutory and voluntary sector mental health services and is a qualified mental health social worker. She also has a professional qualification in speech and language therapy having retrained in this area in 2005. Since retraining, Janet has worked on a number of research projects relating to health, psychology and communication including stroke, autism and infant communication. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Leeds and subsequently joined the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies in 2018 to work as a researcher on the 4D Project (Diagnosing and Detecting types of Dementia and Delirium in the community). Janet joined the lecturing team in the department in October 2019 and in August 2020 moved to a cross faculty role supporting the development of distance and blended learning in the Faculty of Health Studies. Janet returned to a research role in April 2021. She is currently working as a research associate on an evaluation study of Health Education England's elearning for healthcare online dementia training .

Publications

  • Aetiology of obesity in children

    - Reinehr, T., Hetherington, M., Nekitsing, C., McNally, J., Shloim, N. and Ekelund, U. (2018) Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity. Wiley Blackwell.

  • Maternal perceptions of hunger, fullness and enough in the context of baby led and spoon fed meals

    McNally, J., Hugh-Jones, S. and Hetherington, M. (2017) Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology 37th Annual Conference, York.. 36

  • The eyes have it: Infant gaze as an indicator of hunger and satiation

    McNally, J., Hugh-Jones, S., Caton, S., Vereijken, C., Weenen, H. and Hetherington, M.M. (2019) Appetite. 133

  • Communicating hunger and satiation in the first 2 years of life: a systematic review

    McNally, J., Hugh‐Jones, S., Caton, S., Vereijken, C., Weenen, H. and Hetherington, M. (2016) Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12

  • Parent-mediated intervention versus no intervention for infants at high risk of autism: a parallel, single-blind, randomised trial

    Green, J., Charman, T., Pickles, A., Wan, M.W., Elsabbagh, M., Slonims, V., Taylor, C., McNally, J., Booth, R., Gliga, T. and Jones, E.J. (2015) The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2

  • Intervention for infants at risk of developing autism: a case series

    - Green, J., Wan, M.W., Guiraud, J., Holsgrove, S., McNally, J., Slonims, V., Elsabbagh, M., Charman, T., Pickles, A., Johnson, M. and BASIS Team (2013) Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 43