2024 - NRO grant ‘Differentiation in education: Does unequal treatment lead to unequal opportunities?’ (with Eddie Brummelman; €650.000)

2024 - Editor's choice award Journal of Cognition and Development (awarded for Sierksma, Brey & Shutts, 2022)

2023 - NWO XS grant "Not all help is equal: What type of help do young children seek or provide?" (€50.000)

2020 - Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research, Awarded to SENSA-group (1.2 million)

2019 - VENI early career grant, Dutch Organization for Scientific Research  (PI, € 250.000)

2017 - Rubicon, Two-year international postdoctoral research grant by Dutch Organization for Scientific Research  (PI; € 134.764)

2016 - British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (Co-PI; £ 9956)

2015 - Postdoctoral fellowship grant BSI (PI), Radboud University (PI; € 130.000)

2014  - Audience Award ‘article of the year’, for my opinion article ‘Doctor is not necessarily a good teacher’, Elinea.nl

2009 - Best psychology master thesis, University of Amsterdam