Dr Jenny Cleland

Jenny is a mixed methods researcher and has worked as a researcher for several institutions including the University of South Australia, Loughborough University (UK), the University of Nottingham (UK), University of Leicester (UK) and Huddersfield University (UK). Jenny has conducted research in a wide variety of areas including ageing, quality of life, physical activity, disability, education and child poverty and social exclusion. 

Jenny was awarded her PhD from Flinders University in 2022 which was part of an ARC Linkage grant. Her PhD focused on using qualitative and quantitative methods to develop a preference-based quality of life instrument with older people for economic evaluation in aged care. The instrument Quality of life-Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) is now part of the new National Quality Indicators Program in residential aged care alongside the Quality of Care Experience (QCE-ACC) which she was also involved in developing http://www.qol-acc.org/

Jenny is currently working on a NHMRC funded project that aims to develop, validate and implement preference-based Quality of life and quality of care experience measures for clinical care.