Profiles in "Social and Emotional Development" Expertise Area
- Ladd's research explores children's social development and peer relationships.
- Hanish studies children's peer relationships; aggression and bullying; and school-related contexts and outcomes.
- Spinrad's research focuses on the socio-emotional development of young children, particularly the relations of children’s self-regulation abilities to children’s social adjustment.
- Diana Jacobson designed the graduate pediatric curriculum for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. She is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of primary care and community experience.
- Jodi Swanson teaches social science research and statistical methods, human development and relationships across the lifespan, and family processes.
- Responsible Innovation Lab facilitator, Senior Product Manager in the Enterprise Technology Office, Responsible Innovation Capstone professor, WPC MS-ISM graduate student.
- Field teaches both in-person and online courses in the Sanford School. He also conducts research on children and adolescents’ social cognitions.
- Casey Sechler is the Associate Director, Research for the Global Sport Institute where she advances the Institute’s research initiatives.