Candice Odgers
{{short description|Canadian psychologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Candice Odgers
| occupation = Professor
| citizenship =
| workplaces = Duke University, University of California Irvine
| spouse =
| image = Odgers 2021 2.jpg
| education = Simon Fraser University (BA, MA)
University of Virginia (PhD)
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}}
}}
Candice Lynn Odgers{{cite book |url=https://majorevents.virginia.edu/sites/majorevents2017.virginia.edu/files/program_graduates05.pdf |title=One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Final Exercises |date=22 May 2005 |page=25 |publisher=University of Virginia |accessdate=2021-02-11}} (born 1976) is a Canadian developmental and quantitative psychologist who studies how early adversity and exposure to poverty influences adolescent mental health. Her team has developed new approaches for studying health and development using mobile devices and online tools, with a focus on how digital tools and spaces can be improved to support children and adolescents. Odgers is currently a professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine{{Cite web|url=https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/candice-odgers-professor-duke-university-joins-department-psychology-and-social-behavior|title=Candice Odgers joins Department of Psychology and Social Behavior {{!}} School of Social Ecology|website=socialecology.uci.edu|access-date=2019-12-10}} and a research professor at Duke University.{{cite web |title=Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy |url=https://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people/candice-l-odgers |website=Duke |access-date=20 October 2019}} Odgers is also the co-director of the Child and Brain Development Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Biography
Odgers played college basketball and attended Simon Fraser University, where she received her undergraduate degree in Criminology and Psychology. Her brother is Jeff Odgers an NHL Hockey Player.
Odgers obtained a Honors and Masters level degree from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 2001 and was awarded with the Terry Fox Medal [https://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfnews/1999/June3/odgers.html Terry Fox Medal] for overcoming adversity following a serious motor vehicle accident while traveling with the Women's Basketball Team at SFU. Odgers was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship to continue her studies at Cambridge University, but pursued a PhD in psychology at the University of Virginia.
Odgers completed her postdoctoral training in England at the Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Centre with Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, during which time she helped to create a 'genes-to-geography' data archive for 2,232 children from the Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
In 2007, Odgers began a faculty position at the University of California, Irvine.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} In 2012 she became the associate director at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University and a professor of Public Policy, Psychology & Neuroscience. Odgers became a Fellow, for the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, and a Fellow at the Child Brain & Development Program Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 2016. She is currently a psychology professor at the University of California-Irvine and Duke University.{{Cite web|url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-53340-017|title=Candice l. Odgers: Awards for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest|date=November 2015|website=APA PsycNET|language=en|access-date=2019-12-03}}{{Cite journal|date=November 2015|title=Candice L. Odgers: Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest|url=https://inid.gse.uci.edu/files/2011/03/Odgers-2015-American-Psychologist-Bio-Award.pdf|journal=American Psychologist|volume=70|issue=8|pages=720–722|via=APA PsycNET|doi=10.1037/a0039837|pmid=26618956}}{{Cite web|url=https://adaptlab.org/team/candice-odgers/|title=Candice Odgers {{!}} adaptlab|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-12}}
Awards and honors
Odgers has received multiple awards for her research including the 2016 Advanced Research Fellowship from Klaus J. Jacobs Foundation,{{Cite web |title=Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program |url=https://jacobsfoundation.org/en/activity/jacobs-foundation-research-fellowship-program/ |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=Jacobs Foundation |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Candice L. Odgers |url=https://jacobsfoundation.org/en/fellow/candice-l-odgers/ |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=Jacobs Foundation |language=en-US}} 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association,{{Cite news |title=Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest |url=https://www.apa.org/about/awards/public-interest?tab=3 |access-date=2019-12-03 |work=American Psychological Association |language=en}} 2014 William T. Grant Scholar Award,{{Cite web |title=Current and Former Scholars |url=http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/william-t-grant-scholars-program/current-and-former-scholars |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=William T. Grant Foundation}} 2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science,{{Cite web |title=Janet Taylor Spence Award Recipients |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/spence-recipients |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=Association for Psychological Science - APS |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/spence-recipients/odgers |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=Association for Psychological Science - APS |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Bio - Candice Odgers |url=https://www.cifar.ca/bio/candice-odgers |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=CIFAR |language=en}} and 2005 Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada.{{Cite web |title=Past Award Winners {{!}} The Royal Society of Canada |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners#WilsonMedal |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=rsc-src.ca}}{{cite web |title=Candice Odgers |url=https://adaptlab.org/team/candice-odgers/ |access-date=13 November 2019 |website=AdaptLab}}
References
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External links
- [https://adaptlab.org/team/candice-odgers/ Faculty page]
- {{google scholar id|NY6k-twAAAAJ}}
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Category:Simon Fraser University alumni
Category:University of Virginia alumni
Category:American women psychologists
Category:21st-century American psychologists
Category:University of California, Irvine faculty
Category:Duke University faculty
Category:American women academics