Professor Jon Heron
B.Sc.(Manc.), M.Sc.(Sheff.), D.Phil.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Medical Statistics
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Parenting and children's behavioural problems: Micro- and macro-processes at play in the context of intervention
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
30/06/2023 to 29/06/2025
Exploring the antecedents of adolescent cancer risk behaviours using ALSPAC
Principal Investigator
Description
An MSc dissertation project exploring the antecedents of adolescent cancer risk behaviours using ALSPACManaging organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
03/05/2021 to 30/09/2021
Religious belief, health and disease: a family perspective. II. The follow up and analyses.
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2021
Assessing the associations between autism, autistic traits and multiple risk behaviours in adolescence: a longitudinal population-based birth cohort study
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
A PhD mini project, Assessing the associations between autism, autistic traits and multiple risk behaviours in adolescence: a longitudinal population-based birth cohort study;Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2019 to 30/09/2020
Young Adult Relationships and Health
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2019 to 30/09/2022
Thesis supervisions
Modifiable Risk Factors for Depression in Adolescence – Understanding the Causal Role of Obesity and Physical Activity
Supervisors
Investigating causal associations of substance use with mental health and social cognitive performance in adolescence
Supervisors
Assessing causality of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring intellectual disability
Supervisors
Pathways to Psychosis
Supervisors
Investigating the Relationship between Anxiety and Alcohol Use
Supervisors
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in young adults
Supervisors
Approaches, challenges, and opportunities in the application of genetic epidemiological techniques to lifecourse epidemiology
Supervisors
Mapping associations between early life adversity and alcohol use disorder through human epidemiology and rat neurobiology
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
25/02/2026A Developmentally Informed Study of Sleep and Circadian Polygenic Scores in Adolescence
JAMA Psychiatry
Bidirectional associations between parental negativity and child externalising problems
JCPP Advances
Changing Family Dynamics Through Childhood
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Open
Educational pathways and outcomes for care-experienced children
British Educational Research Journal
Examining potential causal relationships between religiosity and prosocial values, and prosocial values and mental health, in young adulthood in a UK cohort study
Religion, Brain and Behavior
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Dr Gemma Hammerton
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