Anushay is the Sylva-Chan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College.
For her post doc, Anushay will be focusing on adapting the LangQuest, a self-audit tool to assess early years educators’ confidence in using practices to support children’s language and communication, to the Pakistani context. She will be working alongside Professors Kathy Sylva and Sonali Nag from the department, as well as partners in Pakistan.
Anushay completed her DPhil at the department (2022-25) where her research focused on investigating Pakistani children’s social-emotional development and how that relates to their academic skills and the classroom environment. She was supervised by Professor Iram Siraj and Dr Katharina Ereky-Stevens. Anushay received the Patrice Engle Dissertation Grant Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in 2023.
Anushay completed her BSc Psychology from UCL, where she also started her master’s in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology. She was based at Yale University for her master’s thesis, where she worked with Dr Craig Bailey at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to investigate children’s emotion development. Anushay also worked as a part-time research assistant at the Developmental Diversity Lab at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, investigating the cross-cultural development of autistic children.
Anushay’s research interests include understanding child development across the globe, factors that might be affecting it, and devising culture-specific ways to support children’s holistic development through the educational system. Alongside the post doc, Anushay is a consultant at Oxford MeasurEd.