Dr Jenny Haycock

Jenny has many years of experience working in research and project management roles in health and education settings in New Zealand and Australia. She brings broad expertise in project management, qualitative research and implementation science skills, community and stakeholder engagement, consumer co-design, and translation of research to real world settings. Jenny believes partnership and collaboration with people with lived experience of sleep disorders is essential to ensure the work of the Sleep Health Foundation is meaningful and addressing the most important issues. Jenny is the co-chair of the Sleep Health Foundation Lived Experience Advisory Partners (LEAP) group and co-chair of the Australasian Sleep Association Primary Care Council.   

Jenny completed her PhD in 2023 at Flinders University. Her PhD explored the diagnosis and management of insomnia in Australia, identifying issues from the perspectives of people with sleep disorders and health care providers, and proposing ways to overcome these challenges. Jenny also works as a Research Associate at Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health. Her primary research interests include improving access to effective behavioural treatment for insomnia, the management of sleep disorders in primary care and investigating new models of care for treatment of sleep disorders.