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Jaclyn Siegel

Pronouns: She/Her

Research Scientist
Jaclyn is a social psychologist focused on issues of gender, sexuality, body image, and eating disorders.

Jaclyn is a social psychologist and qualitative and quantitative researcher with expertise in gender- and sexuality-related health disparities, body image, and eating disorders. With nearly a decade of research experience across social and clinical psychology, Jaclyn leverages her diverse skill set to support evaluation, planning, and analytic projects. She has methodological expertise in psychometrics and qualitative research approaches, and works across teams to identify and refine instrumentation for evaluation projects, as well as generate ideas for evaluation planning and implementation.

Jaclyn works across teams on the Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance Center to support the evaluation of sexual violence prevention efforts in the Department of Defense. She is also the evaluation lead for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pilot program to support culturally competent communication about vaccines for Black adults, as well as the metrics task lead for the Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships project. She recently supported an equity assessment of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study. She is also helping grow NORC’s research portfolio related to promoting positive body image and preventing eating disorders for people across the gender and sexuality spectrums.

Before joining NORC, Jaclyn worked as the lab coordinator for the Stigma, Objectification, Bodies, and Resistance Lab at the University of Western Ontario, researching women’s social treatment, mental health, and resistance. She then worked as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Body Image, Sexuality, and Health Lab at San Diego State University, where she served as the project director for a large clinical trial of an eating disorder prevention program for sexual minority men in Southern California (the PRIDE Body Project). Jaclyn worked as an adjunct professor in the departments of Psychology at San Diego State University and King’s University College, teaching courses on the psychology of prejudice and the psychology of human sexual behavior, and has published nearly 30 empirical research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals on topics related to gender, body image, eating disorders, mental health, sexual and intimate violence, and social activism.

Jaclyn’s background is in feminist and trauma-informed approaches to qualitative methods, and she regularly presents on qualitative methods in psychology research. She is also a skilled science communicator, sharing updates with an audience of over 50,000 people on Twitter. 

Education

PhD

University of Western Ontario

MS

Villanova University

BA

Villanova University

Appointments & Affiliations

Editorial Board Member

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Style Editor/Social Media Manager

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Editorial Board Member

Body Image

Editorial Board Member

Sex Roles

Editorial Board Member

Psychology of Men and Masculinity

Editorial Board Member

Frontiers in Social Psychology

Honors & Awards

Best Overall Publication Award | 2023

Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention

Distinguished Publication Award | 2022

Association for Women in Psychology

Excellence in Peer Review Award | 2021

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning | 2021

University of Western Ontario

Network for Economic and Social Trends Doctoral Fellowship | 2020 - 2021

University of Western Ontario

Richard Konrad Ontario Graduate Scholarship | 2019 - 2020

University of Western Ontario

Project Contributions