Kathryn Duckworth
Research Co-ordinator
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 6759
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 6880
email: k.duckworth@ioe.ac.uk
Kathryn Duckworth is a Research Officer in the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, part of the Department for Quantitative Social Science at the Institute of Education.
Her research mainly focuses on the intergenerational transmission of educational success and the development of children’s cognitive abilities in the pre-school and primary years. She has also done work on the relative contributions of cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural development at school entry to later academic performance and adult outcomes and the importance of out of school contexts for children and young people.
Research interests
- Children’s school readiness
- Development of and influences on academic, social and behavioural development during childhood and adolescence
- The inter-generational transmission of educational success
Responsibilities:
- To design and undertake quantitative analyses of the birth cohort studies and other large data sets.
- To write up results, present to audiences of academics, policy makers and practitioners and develop policy implications
- To support the WBL directorate in developing new projects and research and policy networks, including development of her own projects in liaison with the DCSF and/or other funders
Kathryn is currently working on the following projects:
- Interactions between developmental contexts in middle childhood - DCSF
- Developing a typology of non-cognitive skills – DCSF
- Influences and leverages on attainment – DCSF
- Antecedents of cognitive outcomes in adolescence - ESRC
Publications (most recent):
Feinstein, L., Duckworth, K., & Sabates, R. (forthcoming). Education and the family: Passing success across the generations. Routledge.
Feinstein, L. & Duckworth, K. (under review). Are there effects of mothers’ education on the next generation? Effects on children’s development. Submitted to Merrill Palmer Quarterly.
Duncan, G. J., Dowsett, C. J., Brooks-Gunn, J., et al. (2007). School Readiness and Later Achievement. Developmental Psychology, 43 (6), 1428 - 1446.
Duckworth, K. (2007). What role for the 3Rs? Progress and attainment during primary school. (No. 23). London. Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning.
Feinstein, L., Bynner, J., & Duckworth, K. (2006). Young People’s Leisure
Contexts and their Relation to Adult Outcomes. Journal of Youth Studies, 9, (3),
305-327.
PhD title: The developing, multi-dimensional agency of the child
Supervisor: Dr Leon Feinstein
Kathryn Duckworth's curriculum vitae (including a full list of publications)
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