Dr Sheina Lew-Levy, from our Department of Psychology, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for Psychology.
The prizes are awarded to researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future career is exceptionally promising.
Sheina describes herself as an ‘undercover anthropologist’. Her research interests include how children learn and grow in diverse communities, and in different environments.
The Leverhulme Trust said Sheina was having a huge impact, due to her formidable rate of academic publication and her contribution to the maturing of her field.
Having studied at McGill University, Canada, and Cambridge, Sheina joined Durham in 2022.
She is currently leading an ESRC-funded project exploring the importance of peers in influencing child behaviour. She will soon begin ERC-funded research into how children and young people actively create cultures with their peers, rather than – as has traditionally been understood – passively receive cultural knowledge.
The Leverhulme backing will fund a student at Durham, and a student in Congo, to support research into the unique role that children play in hunter-gatherer communities in food collection and contributing to food security. It will also fund an impact-focused workshop.
I’m so grateful to the Leverhulme Prize for seeing value in my work. Their support will help my team explore the risky and exciting topic of children’s contributions to community resilience.
Photo credit: Dr Christopher Haddad.
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