Dr Leslie Gutman

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD
    • Research Director
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Policy and Society
  • Department:
    • Department of Quantitative Social Science
  • Centre:
    • Centre for Wider Benefits of Learning
  • Summary:
    • I am interested in developmental trajectories from childhood to late adolescence; developmental transitions during the life span; environmental contexts including families, peers, and schools; and risk and resilience.
  • Professional Activities:
    • Reviewer – Developmental Psychology, Infant Behaviour and Development, International Journal of Behavioural Development.
      Advisory Group - Food Practices and Employed Families with Younger Children.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Aspirations and Attainment, Social Exclusion Task Force on Aspirations, September, 2008.
      Children's social well-being in primary school, Department of Children, Schools, and Families, November 2008.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • United Kingdom
      United States of America
Dr Leslie Gutman

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • Department of Quantitative Social Science
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 316
    55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H 0NU

Publications

  • Gutman L. M., & Feinstein, L. 'Parenting behaviours and children's development from infancy to early childhood: Changes, continuities, and contributions', Early Childhood Development and Care (forthcoming),
  • Gutman L. M., & Eccles, J. S. (2007) 'Stage-environment fit during adolescence: Trajectories of family relations and adolescent outcomes', Developmental Psychology. Vol. 43, pp. 522-537.
  • Gutman, L. M. (2006) 'How student and parent goal orientations and classroom goal structures influence the math achievement of African Americans during the high school transition', Contemporary Educational Psychology. Vol. 31, pp. 44-63.
  • Gutman, L. M., McLoyd, V. C., & Tokoyawa, T. (2005) 'Financial strain, neighbourhood stress, parenting behaviours, and adolescent adjustment in urban African American families', Journal of Research on Adolescence. Vol. 15, pp. 425-449.
  • Gutman, L. M., & Sameroff, A.J. (2004) 'Continuities in depression from adolescence to young adulthood: Contrasting ecological influences', Development and Psychopathology. Vol. 16, pp. 967-984.