Nicole Kingdon

Nicole Kingdon is a research assistant at Boston University’s Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) in the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. At CEED, Ms. Kingdon supports the Reimagining Childcare Evaluation Study, which examines the effects of power-building, relationships, and collaboration for childcare providers and parents on the childcare advocacy ecosystem. Her research focuses on how teacher–child interactions and storybooks can bolster literacy, language, and social–emotional outcomes for economically marginalized young children.
Ms. Kingdon’s research interests derive from her time as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and research assistant in Suffolk University’s Early Childhood Risk & Resilience Lab. She assisted in the Head Start COVID-19 Pandemic Study to delineate areas of pandemic-related risk and resilience for children, parents, families, and teachers. She was also a childcare teacher at Bright Horizons and a Jumpstart AmeriCorps Member, where she connected with children through storybooks.

Ms. Kingdon presented her first-authored research at many conferences and meetings, including the 2023 Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, where she won the Psi Chi EPA Regional Research Award.

Additionally, in spring 2023, Ms. Kingdon won the High Academic Achievement Award for earning the highest grade-point average. She also received the Elizabeth Williams Award from Suffolk University’s psychology department as an honors psychology major who contributed the most to the field and department.

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