Adapted from Professor Gillham's faculty profile at Swarthmore College (https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/jane-gillham)

Professor Gillham is an educator, researcher, and clinical psychologist. She is the Eugene M. Lang Research Professor in the Psychology Department at Swarthmore College, where she has taught for the last 27 years. Professor Gillham's work aims to promote well-being in people, especially adolescents and young adults. Much of her research and applied work focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of school- and community-based intervention programs designed to promote psychological resilience and well-being, and prevent common mental health problems, such as depression, in young people. 

Professor Gillham collaborates with educators, counselors, and clinicians at schools and other organizations that serve youth and with researchers at many other academic institutions. With her collaborators, she has developed several well-being programs and curricula, including the Penn Resiliency Program and Strengths-Based Resilience and conducted several large-scale evaluations of these and other school and community well-being programs. Professor Gillham also serves as a scientific advisor for WorldBeing, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate well-being programs for youth in under-resourced communities in low and middle income countries.  She has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Positive Psychology from 2010-2020 and a member of the editorial board for Psychological Bulletin.

At Swarthmore, Professor Gillham teaches courses on clinical psychology and well-being. She is a member of the Swarthmore Coalition on Well-being, a group of staff, students, and faculty who work together to promote well-being on campus.