Nancy Deutsch is Faculty Co-Director of TYDE. She heads its Leadership Committee with Bethany Teachman and serves as Faculty Co-Lead on the following TYDE Committees: Seed Grants, Post-doctoral Research, Community and Youth Engagement, and Youth-Nex.
Deutsch is also Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and the Linda K. Bunker Professor of Education at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. She is also the Director of Youth-Nex: the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development and a faculty founding director and affiliate of the UVA Equity Center. Her research focuses on understanding the process of adolescent development as it unfolds within local relationships and environments with a goal of understanding how to create settings that better support youth, especially those who have experienced structural oppression. She has focused primarily on youth’s relationships with important adults and out-of-school-time programs, although she also works with schools, especially middle schools, to apply the science of adolescent development to their practices and programs. She is passionate about the use of mixed methods in developmental and educational research and frequently serves as a consultant on projects seeking to integrate qualitative methods into their designs. Dr. Deutsch engages in a variety of activities to help translate research to practice, including working with the National Mentoring Resource Center and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s research advisory boards. Reflective of her love of mentoring, in 2019, she received the APA Division 5 award for Distinguished Contributions in Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry and in 2017 she received a UVA All-University Teaching Award. Her work has been supporting by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, among others.
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