Adèle has a strong clinical and research interest in the psychological treatment of psychosis. Her doctoral thesis focused on the lived experience of recovery in people who hear voices. The research was conducted within a recovery-orientated framework in collaboration with the Hearing Voices Network. Voice-hearers were involved in research design and analysis. Results were published in Qualitative Health Research (2015). Through conducting research in this area she became familiar with recent developments in psychological therapies for distressing voices. She facilitated Hearing Voices groups within a hospital context and conducted research into the impact of peer support groups across NSW (Beavan, de Jager & dos Santos, 2016).  She previously held a research position at the Black Dog Institute under Professor Katherine Boydell. The team’s research programme focused on the lived experience of psychosis, arts-based research and knowledge translation. Most significantly, the team conducted body-mapping research with youth who had experienced a first episode of psychosis. Participants had completed the Keeping the Body in Mind programme at the Bondi Centre (NSW). The body-maps created and accompanying ‘testimonios’ were exhibited at at art exhibition, thus translating research findings to the public (Boydell et al., 2016).

Research articles, publications & presentations:

• De Jager, Fogarty, Tewson, Lenette & Boydell (2017). Digital Storytelling in Research: A Systematic Review. The Qualitative Report, 22(10), 2548-2582.
• Boydell, Curtis, de Jager, Kalucy, Khut, Lappin, Rosenbaum, Tewson & Watkins (2016). Keeping the body in mind over time: Mapping the experiences of young people with psychosis. Early Intervention in Mental Health Conference.
• Beavan, de Jager & Dos Santos (2016). Do peer-support groups for voice-hearers work? A small scale study of Hearing Voices Network support groups in Australia. Psychosis, 2-10.
• De Jager, Beavan & Dos Santos (2016). Hearing Voices Network New South Wales Support Group Member & Facilitator Feedback.
• De Jager, Tewson, Ludlow & Boydell (2016). Embodied ways of storying the self: a systematic review of body-mapping. Forum Qualitative Social Research, 17(2).
• Beavan, dos Santos & de Jager, A. (2016). The Hearing Voices Network works: Moving from the anecdotal to the empirical through university community engagement. In C. Pratt (Ed.). The diversity of university-community engagement: An international perspective (pp. 126-136). Pinang, Malaysia: Asia Pacific University-Community Engagement Network.
• Beavan, Dos Santos, & de Jager.  The Hearing Voices Network works: Moving from the anecdotal to the empirical through university community engagement.University Community Engagement Conference, November 2015.
• De Jager, Rhodes, Beavan, Holmes, McCabe, Thomas, McCarthy-Jones, Lampshire & Hayward (2015). Investigating the lived experience of recovery in people who hear voices. Qualitative Health Research.
• De Jager (2013). A Narrative Inquiry into Recovery from Distressing Voices. World Hearing Voices Congress (Melbourne).
• Rhodes & de Jager (2013) Narrative Studies of Recovery: A Critical Resource for Clinicians. Clinical Psychologist. DOI: 10.1111/cp.12021.
• De Jager & Rhodes (2013). Beyond Madness: A Modern Approach to Hearing Voices. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/beyond-madness-a-modern-approach-to-hearing-voices-14720.
• De Jager (2013). Book review:Hearing voices – the histories, causes and meanings of auditory verbal hallucinations, by Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.