ICD doctoral student awarded Doris Duke Fellowship

JeddKKelly Jedd, doctoral student at the Institute of Child Development, has been selected to receive a Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being. The fellowship, offered by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, is designed to identify and develop a new generation of leaders interested in and capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation’s ability to prevent all forms of child maltreatment. Fifteen of these highly competitive fellowships are awarded annually and they include an annual stipend for up to two years to support the completion of the fellow’s dissertation and related research.

The fellowship program is multidisciplinary in scope and approach, stating that the promotion of child well-being and the prevention of child maltreatment requires both knowledge and collaboration from diverse fields. Therefore, fellows will also have the opportunity to participate in a strong peer learning network of other fellows, their academic and policy mentors, expert researchers and policymakers. Jedd will be working with Kathleen Thomas, professor at the Institute of Child Development, as her academic mentor and will later identify a policy or practice mentor, typically someone working in a state or federal agency, nonprofit service organization or child advocacy organization.

Find out more about the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being here.