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Penny Cavenagh Author & Editor

Penny Cavenagh, PhD, is currently a Professor of Health Research and Enterprise at the University of Suffolk, Visiting Professor at the University of Essex and a Chartered Psychologist. She has published extensively in books and academic journals in the field of medical management, medical education and dysfluency. She boarded for four years at an all-girls school in the early 1970s.

Susan McPherson, PhD, is currently a Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Essex and has been a researcher in the field of mental health for 25 years after studying at the London School of Economics, University College London and Kings College London. She was a full time boarder from age 8 to 18 during the 1980s and 1990s including three years at a junior boarding school.

Jane Ogden, PhD, is currently a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey where she has been teaching for the last 18 years. She has written 8 books relating to health psychology, eating behaviour, weight management, parenting and critical thinking and over 230 research papers on many aspects of health psychology.