2026 ISDP Senior Investigator Award – Rachel Barr, PhD

Rachel Barr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project. Barr is interested in how young children learn so rapidly from the world around them, including learning in the digital world and multilingual environments. She has used media content as part of an early intervention parenting program. Currently she is working on a manybabies project to examine family media ecology globally. She has worked with Zerotothree to disseminate the knowledge via’s Screensense resources.
Rachel Barr, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
website: www.elp.georgetown.edu/ 
 

Rachel Barr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project. Barr is interested in how young children learn so rapidly from the world around them, including learning in the digital world and multilingual environments. She has used media content as part of an early intervention parenting program. Currently she is working on a manybabies project to examine family media ecology globally. She has worked with Zerotothree to disseminate the knowledge via’s Screensense resources.

ISDP Senior Investigator Award Winners:

2023 Senior Investigator Award, George F Michel, Ph. D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology
University of North Carolina Greensboro More Details

2022 Senior Investigator Award, David J. Lewkowicz, PhD, Senior Research Scientist Haskins Laboratories and Professor Adjunct in the Yale Child Study Center and the Yale Department of Psychology More Details

2021 Senior Investigator Award, Regina Marie Sullivan, PhD, Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Researcher, Nathan Kline Institute
NYUMC Neuroscience Institute
The Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY 10016

 

2020 Senior Investigator Award, Mark S. Blumberg, PhD, Wendell Miller Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa

2019 Senior Investigator AwardMartha Ann Bell, Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech

2018 Senior Investigator Award, Robert Lickliter, 
Florida International University
Miami, United States