Dr. Emma Armstrong-Carter leads the Caregiving Youth Development and Policy Lab and is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. She is a developmental psychologist with interdisciplinary training in educational policy and data science. She earned her Ph.D from Stanford University, where she was also a fellow in the Stanford Data Science Initiative and Center for Education Policy Analysis. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the National Science Foundation. She researches children’s and adolescents’ experiences caregiving for family — and how these experiences relate to their wellbeing and educational opportunities. See her CV here.
Primary Research Partners:
- Dr. Elizabeth Olson – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dr. Connie Siskowski – The American Association of Caregiving Youth
- Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative
- Dr. Ron Dahl – University of California, Berkeley
- Dr. Robert Sege – Tufts Medical School and the HOPE Initiative
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
- Lucy Clark
- Ben Gordon
- Tess Olmi
- Tristan Silfverskiold
- Eloise Goedkoop
- Abigail Klein
- Jamison Forman
Graduate Research Assistants:
- Lara Minassians (1st Year PhD Candidate)
- Camila Piza (Master’s Student)
- Heidi Nguyen (Master’s Student)
Interested in Joining?
We’re not currently accepting research assistants for Fall 2025, as we’re at capacity. You are welcome, though, to email about future opportunities.
PI: Dr. Emma Armstrong-Carter, PhD
Tufts University