Dr Jean Heng

Jean Anne Heng is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Generation New Era (GNE) core research team at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. She was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, University of Cambridge (2024-25). Her research explores early caregiving environments, parent-child interaction, and child developmental outcomes across diverse cultural and socioeconomic contexts, with a particular focus on families in low- and middle-income settings. Her work applies cross-cultural, longitudinal, and multi-method approaches to examine how caregiving beliefs and practices shape young children's social, emotional, and cognitive development.