Julia Jäkel (Jaekel)

Dr. phil. | Clin. Dipl. Psych. | Habilitation
Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Psychology

Values, Ideologies and Social Contexts of Education
Faculty of Education and Psychology

Julia joined the University of Oulu in August 2021 after six years at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. She received her professional degree of clinical psychology (2004), Dr. phil. in psychology (2008), and higher doctorate/venia legendi (2015) in developmental psychology from the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She holds honorary positions at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), University of Warwick (UK) and University of Leicester (UK).

Julia's main research areas are early life stress and long-term resilience. She is involved in multiple longitudinal studies of diverse populations, working with international interdisciplinary teams. Her goal is to contribute to understanding the complex biopsychosocial mechanisms that control mental health, cognitive, and social development over time to be able to design effective avenues towards intervention. Julia's track record contains 98 publications and >1.25 million EUR received in research funding.

Research interests

long-term development; early life stress; risk and resilience; preterm birth; mental health; social behaviour; parenting; intervention; migration

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Jaekel, J., Anderson, P. J., Bartmann, P., Cheong, J. L. Y., Doyle, L. W., Hack, M., Johnson, S., Marlow, N., Saigal, S., Schmidt, L., Sullivan, M. C., & Wolke, D. (2022). Mathematical performance in childhood and early adult outcomes after very preterm birth: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15132

Jaekel, N., Jaekel, J., Fincher, E., & Brown, C. L. (2022). Summer regression—the impact of summer on English learners’ reading development. Frontiers in Education, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.817284

Jaekel, N., Ritter, M., & Jaekel, J. (2022, preprint). Associations of linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17636.86405

Anderson, P. J., de Miranda, D. M., Albuquerque, M. R., Indredavik, M. S., Evensen, K. A. I., Van Lieshout, R., Saigal, S., Taylor, H. G., Raikkonen, K., Kajantie, E., Marlow, N., Johnson, S., Woodward, L. J., Austin, N., Nosarti, C., Jaekel, J., Wolke, D., Cheong, J. L. Y., Burnett, A., Treyvaud, K., Lee, K. J., & Doyle, L. W. (2021). Psychiatric disorders in individuals born very preterm / very low-birth weight: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine, 42, 101216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101216

Hunter, H.*, Allen, K. B., Liu, R., Jaekel, J., & Bell, M. A. (2021). Examining the bidirectional relationships between maternal intrusiveness and child internalizing symptoms in a community sample: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood. Depression and Anxiety, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23207

Jaekel, J., Kim, H. M., Lee, S. J., Schwartz, A.*, Henderson, J. M. T., & Woodward, L. J. (2021). Emotional and behavioral trajectories of 2 to 9 years old children born to opioid-dependent mothers. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(4), 443-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00766-w

Kajantie, E., Johnson, S., Heinonen, Kati., Anderson, P. J., Wolke, D., Evensen, K. A. I., Räikkönen, K., Darlow, B. A., van der Pal, S., Indredavik, M. S., Jaekel, J., Hovi, P., Morrison, K., Verrips, E., Doyle, L. W., & APIC Adults Born Preterm International Collaboration (2021). Common core assessments in follow-up studies of adults born preterm - recommendation of the Adults born Preterm International Collaboration. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 35(3), 371-387. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppe.12694

Reyes, L. M.*, Jaekel, J., Bartmann, P., & Wolke, D. (2021). Peer relationship trajectories in very preterm and term individuals from childhood to early adulthood. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 42(8), 621-630. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000949

* = student co-author

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julia.jaekel@oulu.fi

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Linnanmaa Campus, room FY 253-1

Keywords

learning disabilities social interaction Psychology multidisciplinarity multiculturalism child psychiatry Public health care science, life course and health cohort research

Julia Jäkel (Jaekel)

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Title
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