Professor
School of Education

Organized After-School Activities, Motivation, Family Influences, supporting development for all youth, STEM

Simpkins' CV

Google Scholar Profile

Simpkins' Research Group's Website

Families & STEM Project

Afterschool Activities & Positive Youth Development Project

UCI Center for Afterschool & Summer Excellence

Sandra Simpkins' research addresses positive youth developmental processes, the influence of families and organized activities on those processes, and how these processes vary by social position factors (such as, socioeconomic status). Her current projects focus on how youth’s organized after-school activities support their positive adjustment into adulthood and how families help support adolescents’ STEM motivation, activities, and choices.

2023 Mavis Hetherington Award for Excellence in Applied Developmental Science, American Psychological Association Division 7
2021 Fellow, American Psychological Association
2020 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
2019 Faculty Mentorship Award for Inclusive Excellence, School of Education, University of California, Irvine.
2014 Outstanding Faculty Mentor of an Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Sanford School, Arizona State University.
2011-2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award Recipient.
2007-2012 William T. Grant Foundation Young Scholar.

See the website links above for publications

Link to this profile
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6165

Last updated
04/09/2025