Jenny Gibson is Professor of Neurodiversity and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Education. She is co-director of the centre for research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), and co-director of CHIA, the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Her research investigates human development, flourishing and neurodiversity, with an emphasis on specific neurodivergent groups including autism and developmental language disorder. Jenny's work is rooted in developmental psychology and has many interdisciplinary influences including disability studies, linguistics, computer science, psychiatry, literary studies and education.