Shahar Dangur-Levy

Shahar Dangur-Levy is a Postdoctoral fellow at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

She holds a PhD in Sociology from Western University, MA in Sociology, and BA in Sociology and Human Services from the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

Shahar's research focuses on educational inequalities, pathways to higher education, and self-efficacy. 

Her research on self-efficacy addresses questions of how self-efficacy affect educational achievements over time, and explores the factors that affect self-efficacy, such as gender, instructional methods, classroom environments, and individual experiences, to enhance students' confidence and improve their educational achievements, particularly in STEM degrees.

Recent projects examine mathematics self-efficacy as a mediator of the gender gap in STEM education, and explore how students’ and teachers’ perceptions interact with socioeconomic status to impact students’ mathematics self-efficacy. 

Her research on family patterns and educational pathways, addresses questions on how family patterns of parenthood or childness affect educational trajectories? How do they interact with gender and socioeconomic status to affect educational trajectories?  And how have these relationships changed over time. Understanding these dynamics would help support students facing familial challenges, and narrow inequality in access to higher education.