Tanya M. Paes, Ph.D.
Teaching & Mentoring
Teaching Experience
I have extensive experience teaching child development and research methods at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Purdue University
Instructor of Record for Guidance in Early Childhood (Spring 2023)
Instructor of Record for Guidance in Early Childhood (Spring 2022)
Co-Instructor for Guidance in Early Childhood (Spring 2021)
University College London
Guest Lecturer, MSc Infancy and Early Childhood lecture on Theoretical Foundations of Executive Function Interventions for Preschoolers (Jan 2024)
Guest Lecturer, MSc Infancy and Early Childhood lecture on Theoretical Foundations of Executive Function Interventions for Preschoolers (Jan 2023)
Guest Lecturer, MSc Infancy and Early Childhood lecture on Theoretical Foundations of Executive Function Interventions for Preschoolers (Jan 2022)
University of Cambridge
SPSS Demonstrator for Part IB Designing Educational Research Paper (Nov 2019)
Assisted with the MPhil Research Method Strand lecture on Mixed Methods (Feb 2019)
Guest Lecturer, PGCE lecture on Communication and Language Development (Nov 2018)
Supervisor for Part II Education Research and Investigation (2018 – 2019)
Guest Lecturer, MEd Research Method Strand workshop on Writing a Thesis (Dec 2017)
Guest Lecturer, MEd Research Method Strand lecture on Arguing and Structuring a Thesis (Nov 2017)
Supervisor for Part IA Language, Communication and Literacies Paper (2016 – 2019)
Mentoring Experience
I have mentored over 60 undergraduate and postgraduate students in designing research studies, collecting interview and survey data, data management, statistics, conference submissions, and manuscript preparation.
Undergraduate Thesis Mentorship, University of Cambridge (2018 – 2019)
Yanwen Wu- The effect of a pretend play intervention on the narrative skills of children with or without english as an additional language
Isabel Towell- The efficacy of pretend play intervention on the working memory of 4- to 5-year-olds
Health Sciences MentorMatch Program, McMaster University (2017 – 2018)
Mentored second-year undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program