Samantha Hutchinson

Samantha Hutchinson – samanthahutchinson@ucsb.edu

Samantha Hutchinson is a School Psychology Ph.D. student working in Dr. Erin Dowdy’s lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Psychology in 2020. Her previous work broadly evaluated how young children learn about the world and her senior thesis assessed how adult beliefs about early cognitive development vary across experience and expertise. As a Program Assistant at the Child Mind Institute, Hutchinson worked with clinicians across disciplines delivering evidence-based small group interventions for students struggling with behavior and emotion regulation. As the Research Coordinator for the Boston College Consortium for Translational Research on Learning and Memory, she initiated collaboration between the Psychology & Neuroscience department and the Education department to investigate the basic principles of learning and memory and their application in educational settings. As a Project TEAMS scholar, Hutchinson is excited to continue to collaborate across departments to research and implement evidence-based interventions to support diverse students’ social, emotional, and mental health needs.