Mairwen K Jones

Mairwen K Jones

Dr Mairwen Jones is currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. Dr Jones completed a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in psychology in 1992 at the University of Sydney. She was awarded the Australian Psychological Society Prize for first in the year and the Dick Thompson Prize for First Placed Student in Psychology Honours. In 1993 she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Research Award for her doctoral project. Mairwen has been Acting Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and Clinical Consultant to the clinic at the University of Sydney and is currently Clinic Head. She is Chair of the Faculty's Mental Health Research Team. and has been a chief investigator on a number of successful competitive grants which have funded research into the nature and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her research has been published in journals and book chapters and has been presented at numerous prestigious international and local events. She is an author of Danger Ideation Reduction Therapy (DIRT) for obsessive-compulsive washers: A comprehensive guide to treatment. Finally, her research has been of local and international interest in the media and she has conducted more than 20 radio and/or newspaper interviews in recent years.