University of York
Sophie von Stumm is Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of York. She studies the causes and consequences of individual differences in learning, integrating theories and methods across the disciplines psychology, education, sociology, epidemiology, and genomics. Her research addresses how family background, early life experiences, and education opportunities inform children’s cognitive development and their educational outcomes. Much of Prof von Stumm’s work builds on secondary data analyses from population cohort studies and on digital assessment technologies for collecting repeated, in-depth, naturalistic observations.
Prof von Stumm’s research has been published in leading science journals, including Molecular Psychiatry, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Child Development, and received funding from the British Academy, Nuffield Foundation and Wellcome Trust. She holds fellowships from the Jacobs Foundation (2017-2019) and the British Academy (2022-2023).