Professor Wendy Sims-Schouten has been made Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her contributions to social science for public benefit in research areas covering displaced voices in mental health and educational inequalities.
She is among 63 Fellows elected in the Academy’s autumn cohort. In total, the Academy has 1,700 fellows representing leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors.
Professor Wendy Sims-Schouten is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Psychology and Head of UCL Arts and Sciences. She is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. With a particular interest and focus on marginalised, disadvantaged and displaced voices in relation to mental health, wellbeing and ‘eclectic resilience’, her interdisciplinary research is centred around young people who have been in care, refugees, migrants and minority ethnic communities. She has also researched issues around racist bullying and mental health literacy in higher education.
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Discover Wendy’s ‘Meet our Fellows’ profile in the Academy of Social Sciences