Educated at Aranui High and Canterbury University Jenny completed a doctorate in theoretical elementary particle physics at Oxford University. She was a research physicist at Manchester University, travelling to the US for regular placements at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre in California. Back in NZ she helped lead our country’s involvement in the Large Hadron Collider project based in Geneva, Switzerland, before a change in tack saw her teaching sport science at UC and leading the Sport Coaching degree programme.