Eleanor Fisk
Entered the Program: 2018
Current program:
PhD – Child and Adolescent Development
Previous Education:
- MA (HDFS), UConn – 2020
- BA (Psychology), Middlebury College – 2017
Research Interests:
- The processes through which early childhood education influences child development
- How research can inform policy supports for young children and families
- Role of socioeconomic disadvantage on child development
- Relations between social emotional and cognitive skill development
Major Advisor: Dr. Caitlin Lombardi
Advising Committee: Dr. Rachel Chazan Cohen; Dr. Eric Loken (EPSY); Dr. Kyle DeMeo Cook (Boston University)
Assistantship Experience:
Research Assistant:
Educare Springfield Local Evaluation Partnership (PI Dr. Chazan-Cohen) – 2022-2023
Parent Experiences with Technology-Enabled Early Childhood Services (PI Dr. Chazan-Cohen) – 2021
UConn OVPR Research Excellence Program (PI Dr. Lombardi) – 2019-2020
Center for Applied Research in Human Development (PI Dr. Russell) – 2019-2021
Instructor of Record:
HDFS 3102 – 2022
Teaching Assistant:
HDFS 1070 – 2018-2019
Awards/scholarships/fellowships:
IBACs Summer Graduate Fellowship – 2019
HDFS Graduate Fellowship – 2020
Mattoon-Kline Endowed Scholarship – 2020
SRCD State Policy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – 2021-2022
Graduate Student Best Published Paper Award – 2022