Jenni completed a Bachelor of Psychology at Charles Sturt University in 2005. After working in various research roles for 6 years, she started a PhD in Psychology and Economics. The title of her PhD was “Estimating the Social Impacts of Change: Exploring a Psychological Approach to Capturing Social Impact Data for Cost-Benefit Analysis”. Following graduation in 2016, Jenni continued working across a wide variety of research projects at Charles Sturt, and with the Western Research Institute. She has worked with international organisations for research and research student supervision, leading to an interest in cross-cultural aspects of Psychology. She also held two sequential Post Doctoral Research Fellowships at Charles Sturt, funded by the Soils CRC.

Jenni started lecturing in the School of Psychology in 2007, joining the School as a Faculty member in 2023.

She is interested in many aspects of human social cognition, with an emphasis on wellbeing, and how we function as individuals and in inter-connected communities. She has applied this interest to areas including rural communities, ageing, environmental behaviour and decision making, disengaged young people, STEM education, high-stress work environments, and health.

Jenni works across both qualitative and quantitative research and has taught a variety of undergraduate subjects including Qualitative Research Methods, Psychology of Ageing, Psychology of Crime, and introductory Psychology subjects (PSY101, PSY102 and PSY111). Jenni has also supervised Honours and PhD students.