Candice Odgers

Candice L. Odgers (born 1976) is a developmental psychologist who studies adolescent and child development. Her research focuses on how early adversity and exposure to poverty and inequality shapes adolescent mental health and development. Her team team has developed new methodologies and approaches for studying health and development using mobile devices and online tools, with a focus on how digital tools and spaces can be improved to support children and adolescents. Odgers is currently a professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine[1] and a Research Professor at Duke University.[2] Odgers is also the Co-Director of Child Child and Brain Development Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Candice Odgers
CitizenshipCanadian
OccupationProfessor
AwardsDistinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Award (2015)
Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship (2016)
Academic background
Alma materPh.D., University of Virginia 2005

M.A., Simon Fraser University 2001

A.B., Simon Fraser University 1999
Academic work
InstitutionsDuke University, University of California Irvine

Odgers has received multiple awards for her research including the 2016 Advanced Research Fellowship from Klaus J. Jacobs Foundation,[3][4] 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association,[5] 2014 William T. Grant Scholar Award,[6] 2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science,[7][8][9] and 2005 Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada.[10][11]

Biography

Odgers attended Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, an athletically themed boarding school, to play basketball, volleyball and run track. She then moved to a nearby city to complete her secondary education and was the first in her family to complete high school. Odgers then went on to play college basketball and attend Simon Fraser University, where she received her undergraduate degree in Criminology and Psychology.

In her second year of college, the Simon Fraser Women's Basketball team was involved in a serious accident while traveling a game in the United States. Odgers was injured in the accident and spent a number of years in recovery and rehabilitation. Following her recovery, she obtained a Honors and Masters level degree from Simon Frauser University in 2001 and was awarded with the Terry Fox Medal [12] for overcoming adversity. Odgers was awarded a Commonweath Fellowship to continue her studies at Cambridge University, but pursued a PhD in psychology at the University of Virginia, which she earned in 2005.}

Odgers completed her postdoctoral training between 2005–07 in England at the Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Centre with Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, during which time she helped to create a 'genes-to-geography' data archive for 2,232 children from the Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study.

In 2007, Odgers moved back to the United States and got a faculty position at the University of California, Irvine. Odgers began working at the University of California, Irvine in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor from 2011–12. She then worked as Associate Director at the Center for Child and Family Policy of Duke University from 2012–2016. In 2012, Odgers took the position in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. Odgers became a Fellow, for the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, and a Fellow at the Child Brain & Development Program Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 2016. She is currently working as a psychology professor at the University of California-Irvine and Duke University.[13][14][15]

References
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  2. "Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy". Duke. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
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  5. "Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  6. "Current and Former Scholars". William T. Grant Foundation. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  7. "Janet Taylor Spence Award Recipients". Association for Psychological Science - APS. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  8. "2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award". Association for Psychological Science - APS. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
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  10. "Past Award Winners | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
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  12. Terry Fox Medal
  13. "Candice l. Odgers: Awards for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest". APA PsycNET. November 2015. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  14. "Candice L. Odgers: Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest" (PDF). American Psychologist. 70 (8): 720–722. November 2015. doi:10.1037/a0039837. PMID 26618956 – via APA PsycNET.
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