Staff profile

My PhD focuses on the development of empathy and prosocial behaviour in the first two years of life and the influence of the socio-cultural learning environment across a diverse, longitudinal sample in Uganda and the UK. 

I use a variety of measures to investigate empathy and prosociality such as eye tracking and behavioural experiments. Furthermore, I carried out focus groups with mothers in Uganda and the UK to study the effect of the socio-cultural learning environment on key components of empathy namely gender roles, emotion socialisation, emotion regulation and cultural expecations for prosocial behaviour. 

Research Interests

• empathy
• emotional development and socialisation
• gender roles
• globalised, inclusive developmental science

 

Contact: georgia.tuohy@durham.ac.uk

Supervisors: Professor Zanna Clay, Professor Lynda Boothroyd

Journal Article

• The Impact of Maternal Experience of Gender Roles on Children's Socio‐Emotional Development in Uganda: A Qualitative Study
  
  Tuohy, G., Ainamani, H., Kakai, B., Nydareeba, E., Paricia, J., Sajabi, J., Vreden, C., Boothroyd, L., & Clay, Z. (2025). The Impact of Maternal Experience of Gender Roles on Children’s Socio‐Emotional Development in Uganda: A Qualitative Study. Infant and Child Development, 34(4), Article e70048. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70048