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Assistant Professor Scott Receives 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award from Society for Research on Child Development

March 11, 2019.

Judith C. Scott , assistant professor at BU School of Social Work, has been honored with the 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD).

Scott — who received her PhD in 2017 from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University — titled her doctoral dissertation, “Raising a hand against young African American children: The effects on mental health trajectories and consideration of moderating cultural factors.”

In their announcement , SRCD recognized Scott’s work as a “culturally-embedded dissertation examining the links between physical discipline and mental health outcomes for African American children.”

Since joining BUSSW, Scott has continued her work studying behavioral health and physical discipline across culturally-diverse groups. This spring, she will lead a study on parenting behaviors in low-income Chinese immigrant families living in Greater Boston —  funded by a second grant Scott received from the Doris Duke Fellowship, which also supported her award-winning dissertation.

SRCD award recipients are selected based on the quality of their doctoral dissertation, publications emerging from the project, and the nominee’s current position and engagement in the field of child development research. Scott will be recognized at the 2019 SRCD Biennial Awards on Thursday, March 21 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Graduate Students Win Several SRCD Dissertation Awards

January 13, 2015 –  The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) recently named three award winners at Georgetown. Congratulations to all of the winners!

SRCD Outstanding Dissertation Award 

Dr.  Natalie Brito  received the Outstanding Dissertation Award and is currently at Columbia University as a  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar.

Read about Dr. Brito’s dissertation .

SRCD SECC Dissertation Research Funding Awards

Anna Markowitz (mentor: Ryan ) and Laura Zimmerman  (mentor:  Barr ) received Dissertation Research Funding Awards .  

Anna’s dissertation examines the role of school connection and educational policy in youth’s social and emotional development. It uses rigorous econometric techniques to (1) assess the potentially causal links between students’ connection to school and their social and emotional behavioral outcomes, (2) explore whether this influence is moderated by age and socioeconomic status, and (3) uses a counterfactual interrupted time series design to identify whether No Child Left Behind has influenced youth’s reported connection to school. 

Laura’s research will focuses on age-related changes in visuospatial working memory (VSWM) in early childhood. VSWM is the ability to maintain and update spatial information (i.e. location) and visual information (i.e. color or shape) for a short time. Her dissertation will use near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to examine the neural correlates of VSWM on a touchscreen task in children under 5. NIRS is a non-invasive imaging technique that has been used with infants and young children to measure changes in blood oxygenation that are caused by neuronal activity. 

ICD alumna recognized with SRCD Outstanding Dissertation Award

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The SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Programs include placement opportunities in federal congressional offices as well as federal and state executive branch agencies. The purpose of the fellowship programs is to provide researchers with immersive opportunities to learn about policy development, implementation, and evaluation, and to use their research skills in child development to inform public policy at the federal or state level.

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2024 - 2025 SRCD Federal Agency Policy Fellows

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You may apply for this award if you have completed all course work and comprehensive/ preliminary exams and have defended (or will defend) the dissertation prospectus successfully before the academic year begins. You must be enrolled in or have applied to a participating institution in a participating state listed on the Participating States and Institutions web page.

The Dissertation Award offers a one-year, $20,000 stipend, university-covered tuition and fees (unless the institution prohibits a fee waiver), a $500 research allowance and professional development support. It also covers expenses associated with attending the annual conference ( Institute on Teaching and Mentoring ).

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