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Erin Phelps
Deputy Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
Research Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
307 Lincoln Filene Center
Tufts University, Medford MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-6506
Email: erin.phelps@tufts.edu
Erin Phelps is Research Professor and Research Director of the Institute for Applied
Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist and research methodologist, Phelps
obtained her doctorate in Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
in 1981. While at the Murray Research Center for the Study of Lives at Harvard
University, she championed the use of longitudinal data for the understanding
development in context across the lifespan and clamored for better representation of
underrepresented groups in research. Data
she collected during this time are available through the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences
at Harvard, along with data from almost 20,000 studies from around the world. She is co-author of Lives through Time (with
Frank Furstenberg and Anne Colby) and Inventory of Longitudinal Studies in the Social
Sciences (with Cope Young and Kristen Savola). As a founding member of the Society for
the Study of Human Development, she served as Executive Secretary through 2005.
Download Erin Phelps' complete Curriculum Vitae
(PDF) or visit her
Faculty Guide profile page to learn more.
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