Dr Jo Lysons

Jo Lysons was appointed to Murray Edwards College in the position of Research Associate in April 2024, to lead a project investigating women and non-binary students’ wellbeing and experiences of teaching and learning at Cambridge. Dr Lysons completed her PhD in developmental psychology at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge. Her work has focused on psychosocial functioning in families created via gamete donation and other non-traditional family forms, investigating parents’ and children’s mental health and psychosocial adjustment, the quality of parent-child relationships in these families, and children’s perceptions of their families.
Dr Lysons’ research interests also include development, learning, and education over the life-course; previous projects have focused on evaluating the assessment of early child development within the Health Visiting system in England (in collaboration with the Children and Families Policy Research Unit, UCL), and investigating gender differences in social media use, sleep quality, and mental health amongst British adolescents.