Robert Bradley

Robert H. Bradley is director of the Center for Child and Family Success at ASU and professor in the Department of Psychology. He was formerly director of the Center for Applied Studies in Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and adjunct professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He helped develop the HOME Inventory, a widely used measure of the home environment. He is also one of the developers of the Family Map, an instrument used to help guide practice in early education and home visitation programs. During his professional career, Bradley has served on the editorial boards of 10 professional journals and served as associate editor for both Child Development and Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Professor Bradley’s primary areas of research include relations between experiences in the home environment and children’s development, child care, and early education. He was a member of the investigator team for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Human Development and the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study. Currently, Bradley is working with colleagues at NIH, Duke University and University of Massachusetts-Amherst to analyze data collected from more than 1.3 million families residing in 50 low-income nations (the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey). With colleagues at ASU, he is also studying the impact of migration on children’s social competence.