Jenna Spry is a Senior Research Associate (Qualitative) at the Bristol Dental School within the University of Bristol. She holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology & Theology and a BNurs(Hons) Bachelor of Nursing (Child.).

After her nursing training, Jenna worked as a paediatric intensive care nurse at Birmingham Children’s Hospital for 11 years. For 6 of those years, she combined both clinical and research nursing roles.

Before joining the Cleft@18-23 programme Jenna worked as a researcher on a variety of qualitative and mixed methods research projects as well as co-leading a Community of Practice for early career researchers on Patient & Public Involvement in Multi-Morbidity Research, at the University of Birmingham.