Staff profile

My PhD focuses on the development of empathy and prosocial behaviour in the first two years of life and the influence of the socio-cultural learning environment across a diverse, longitudinal sample in Uganda and the UK. 

I use a variety of measures to investigate empathy and prosociality such as eye tracking and behavioural experiments. Furthermore, I carried out focus groups with mothers in Uganda and the UK to study the effect of the socio-cultural learning environment on key components of empathy namely gender roles, emotion socialisation, emotion regulation and cultural expecations for prosocial behaviour. 

Research Interests

• empathy
• emotional development and socialisation
• gender roles
• globalised, inclusive developmental science

Contact: georgia.tuohy@durham.ac.uk

Supervisors: Professor Zanna Clay, Professor Lynda Boothroyd