Andrew Dawes

Andrew (Andy) Dawes is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. He was a co-founder of the Children’s Institute, and subsequently a Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council. For the past seven years he contributed to the Young Lives longitudinal study of children growing up in poverty in India, Ethiopia, Peru and Vietnam, and based at the University of Oxford. Throughout his career he has conducted applied research to inform policy and interventions designed to improve the wellbeing and development of young children in poverty. He is a member of the team that conducted South Africa’s first nationally representative survey of preschool children, known as the Thrive By Five study.