Kathy Sylva#

• 2015 - present Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Department of Education
• 1997 - 2015 Professor of Educational Psychology University of Oxford, Department of Education Professorial Fellow Jesus College
• 1990 - 1996 Professor of Child Development and Primary Education University of London, Institute of Education
• 1988 - 1990 Professor of Primary Education University of Warwick
• 1977 - 1988 University Lecturer in Applied Social Studies: Psychology University of Oxford, Department of Social and Administrative Studies
• 1974 - 1977 NICHD Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology; award linked to Professor Jerome Bruner’s research group

• Psychology of education
• Cognitive development
• Pre-school intervention
• Child development
• Early years education

• 2020 Fellow of the British Academy
• 2014 Nisbett Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Educational Research’, British Education Research Assoc
• 2008 Order of the British Empire (OBE) ‘for services to children and families’
• 2006 Elected Fellow, the British Psychological Society
• 2004 Elected Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences
• Honorary Doctorates:
  • 2015 University of Gothenburg
  • 2005 Oxford Brookes University
  • 2002 Open University
  • 2023 University of Jvaskyla

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