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SRCD 2027 Biennial Meeting
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This page will continue to grow as we confirm our final program for the SRCD27.

The invited program for SRCD27 includes experts in 

  • adversity and early prevention research
  • children’s rights and criminal justice
  • cognitive neuroscience, learning, executive function
  • developmental affective neuroscience, limbic-cortical development, early-life stress
  • early childhood cognitive development
  • early childhood policy; international; research-to-policy; research-to-practice
  • early experiences and brain development
  • early life stress in community, low-risk populations
  • early mother-child interaction
  • how infants and young children learn with their hands
  • intersections of developmental psychology, suicidology, education, and policy
  • marginalized children and families
  • maternal mortality and health disparities
  • open science
  • sleep and neurodiversity
  • the integration of ERS into cognitive behavioral therapy
  • transgender, children, international, attachment
  • and so much more across the full swath of developmental science.

Meet the Invited Speakers

Adam Benforado, Ph.D.

Adam Benforado   Dr. Adam Benforado is a law professor and the New York Times bestselling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice and A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All.  A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, he served as a federal appellate law clerk and an attorney at Jenner & Block, before joining Drexel University. Dr. Benforado has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, and his op-eds and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Time, and Rolling Stone.

  • Professional Website
  • Session Type: Invited Session
  • Session Topic: Children’s rights and criminal justice

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D.

Hirsh-Pasek   Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow in Psychology at Temple University, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Her research examines the development of early language and literacy, the role of play in learning and learning and technology. She is the author of 17 books and hundreds of publications, has won numerous awards in her field including being inducted into the National Academy of Education and the Association of Children’s Museum’s Best Friend to Kids Award. Vested in translating science for lay and professional audiences, her Becoming Brilliant, released in 2016 was on the NYTimes Best Seller List in Education. Her book Making Schools Work was released in late Fall of 2022 and Einstein Never used Flashcards was re-released in January of 2026.

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  • Follow Dr. Hirsh-Pasek on Instagram @DrKathyAndDrRo
  • Session Type: Invited Session
  • Session Topic: early childhood cognitive development

Stefanie Hoehl, Ph.D.

Hoehl   Dr. Stefanie Hoehl is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Vienna where she directs the Wiener Kinderstudien lab. She received her PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2008. From 2016 to 2019 she led the Max Planck Research Group on Early Social Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Her research lies at the intersection of developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience and focuses on social and cognitive development in early childhood.

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  • Follow Stephanie Hoehl on Bluesky @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social
  • Session Type: Invited Session
  • Session Topic: early mother-child interaction

Charles A. Nelson, III, Ph.D.

Nelson   Dr. Charles A. Nelson III is Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  He also holds the Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research at Boston Children’s Hospital. Among his many honors he has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the British Academy. In 2021 he received the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and in 2023 he received the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development award.

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  • Follow Charles A. Nelson III on Facebook @wherekidshelpkids/
  • Session Type: Invited Session
  • Session Topic: early experiences and brain development

Brian Nosek

Brian Nosek co-developed the Implicit Association Test, a method that advanced research and public interest in implicit bias. Nosek co-founded three non-profit organizations: Project Implicit to advance research and education about implicit bias (http://projectimplicit.net/), the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science to improve the research culture in his home discipline (http://improvingpsych.org/), and the Center for Open Science (COS; http://cos.io/) to improve rigor, transparency, integrity, and reproducibility across research disciplines. 

Nosek is Executive Director of COS and a professor at the University of Virginia. Nosek’s research and applied interests are to understand why people and systems produce behaviors that are contrary to intentions and values; to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions to align practices with values; and to improve research credibility and cultures to accelerate progress.