Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education, Psychology, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware and director of the Child's Play, Learning, and Development laboratory. She has held numerous awards including a John Simon Guggeheim Fellowship and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for lifetime contributions. She was also named a Distinguished Scientific Lecturer by the American Psychological Association. Her research has been funded by federal agencies and she has over 150 journal publications and book chapters, as well as 12 books and monographs. Passionate about the dissemination of psychological science for improving our schools and families' lives, she and Hirsh-Pasek (her long standing collaborator) also write books for parents and practitioners: How Babies Talk (1999), the award-winning Einstein Never Used Flash Cards (2004), and A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool (2009). Their latest book is under contract. Dr. Golinkoff lectures internationally about language development, play and playful learning, and spatial development. She co-founded the Ultimate Block Party movement to celebrate the science of learning. The first event (2010) in Central Park in New York City attracted over 50,000 people (www.UltimateBlockParty.org); subsequent Block Parties were held in Baltimore and Toronto and more are planned. She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and in print media and never turns down an opportunity to spread the findings of psychological science to the lay public.
Roberta@udel.edu
