P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Professor Emerita of Human Development and Social Policy
PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan, 1981
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is an expert on the interface between research and social policy for children and families and the first developmental psychologist to be tenured in a U.S. public policy school. She was a Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She also was the founding director of Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at IPR for seven years.
From 2013-20, Chase-Lansdale was Northwestern's Associate Provost for Faculty and then Vice Provost for Academics. In 2020, the Provost established the P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant in Social Policy for Children and Families, awarded annually to a student in honor of Chase-Lansdale’s service to the University.
She specializes in multidisciplinary research on social issues and how they affect families and the development of children, youth, and parents. Much of her work addresses family and program strengths that lead to positive social and educational outcomes for families facing economic hardship. Specific topics include two-generation education interventions for parents and children, early childhood education, college promise programs, workforce training, family well-being, parent-child relationships, mothers' employment, and immigration.
Chase-Lansdale co-directs the Northwestern Two-Generation Research Initiative (NU2Gen). This research program addresses the influence of two-generation education interventions on the psychological health, educational attainment, economic well-being, and healthy functioning of families, children, youth, and adults.
She is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She is the recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Social Policy Award as well as the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children. In addition, she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Child Development to mentor scholars of color at all levels.
Chase-Lansdale recently completed her six-year term as an elected member of the Harvard University Board, also serving as Vice Chair. She is a member of inaugural cohort (2012) of the Aspen Institute’s Ascend Leadership Fellowship, designed to bring innovative leaders together to promote a two-generation approach in policy, practice, and research. She served on the board of the Foundation for Child Development for over 25 years, and she chaired the board from 2002-11. She also served on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program, chaired the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Education as well as the NIH Study Section on Social Sciences and Population Studies.
Chase-Lansdale received her BA from Harvard University in 1974 and her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan in 1981. She completed the Advanced Management Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 2016.
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