Michal Perlman

Michal Perlman is a Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. Michal studies how to capture and improve interactions between young children and their siblings and caregivers. See https://rifl.ca/ for more information on this line of research. Michal also studies issues related to quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) including how it should be defined and measured as well as the links between different aspects of ECEC program quality and child outcomes. She has worked with different levels of government to explore how ECEC quality measurement can be used for monitoring and quality improvement purposes. She is also studying how education systems need to support children given the changing nature of work due to disruptive technologies as part of the Future Skills Lab at the University of Toronto. See https://futureskillscanada.com/ for more information on this line of research.

Michal’s work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and practitioner/policy-oriented outlets. Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the McCain Foundation and a host of other government organizations and foundations.

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