Jamie-Lee Pennesi

Research Fellow

College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

+61 8 8201 5122

jamie-lee.pennesi@flinders.edu.au

Social Sciences North

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Jamie-Lee Pennesi is a Research Fellow in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. She has a decade of experience working with eating disorders, as a clinician and as a researcher. Her research has primarily focused on informing the development of more effective interventions for eating disorders and disordered eating. Her portfolio also includes research on body image problems, disordered eating behaviours (e.g., muscularity-oriented behaviours), and changes in eating disorder behaviours over time (e.g., longitudinal, EMA, daily diary studies) among men, sexual minority populations, and clinical eating disorder patients. Dr Pennesi has presented her research at eating disorder and cognitive behavioural conferences globally and has published in high quality peer-reviewed journals. She has received awards for her work, including Flinders University Best Research Higher Degree Student Publication in 2016.

Qualifications

BPsych(Hons) (Flinders), PhD(ClinPsych) (Flinders)

Honours, awards and grants

2022-23: University of Louisville, Research & Creative Activity Award: Improving idiographic algorithms to use for personalization of eating disorder treatment, Role: Principal Investigator.

2018: Flinders University, PhD Publications Award.

2017: Australian Psychological Society, College of Clinical Psychologists Student Prize.

2017: Flinders University, Students Association Development Grant.

2017: Privately Funded Scholarship (PhD Write-up Scholarship).

2014-17: Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

2017: Flinders University, PhD Conference Support Award.

2016: Flinders University, Best Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award.

2016: Flinders University, PhD Publications Award.

2016: Flinders University, Research Student Conference Travel Grant.

2016: Flinders University, Students Association Development Grant.

2012-13: Flinders University & Repatriation General Hospital Summer Vacation Research Scholarship.

2009: Golden Key International Honours Society, Life Member.