Research Profile

  • Uptake, efficacy and implementation of mindfulness based activities and interventions in schools in the South Midlands region of the UK.

    Jacqueline’s doctoral research investigates whether and how mindfulness based activities are being implemented in schools in the region through the creation and implementation of the Mindfulness in Schools Questionnaire (MiSQ).

    Follow-up focus groups conducted with teachers from the region and semi-structured interviews with heads of teacher training programmes further explore educators’ perceptions of mindfulness in education.

    Data collected from interviews with creators, trainers and teachers of mindfulness based interventions in schools inform the final phase of the study. This focuses on the efficacy and implementation of mindfulness based activities and interventions, and considers related policy implications.


  • Chris Roe

    Professor of Psychology

    Rachel Maunder

    Associate Professor in Psychology of Education

  • Jacqueline has led mindfulness sessions with staff and students at the University of Northampton and regularly present work at academic conferences as well as to the general public in a variety of settings.

  • Jacqueline has a BSc in Psychology with French from the University of Sunderland and a MSc in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University. Jacqueline is a trained teacher of Paws b, a school-based mindfulness curriculum for seven to eleven year olds and .b, a mindfulness curriculum for 11 to 18 year olds. Jacqueline is currently a committee member of the North West of England Branch of the British Psychological Society.