Erin Dowdy, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a licensed psychologist and a nationally certified school psychologist. Her research career and scholarly publications have focused on universal assessment for social and emotional health and risk. She is focused on equitable screening practices. Dr. Dowdy has a record of past success at disseminating research in peer- reviewed journals and at professional conferences, and her research and collaborative work with schools, state, and community agencies has been funded by various agencies.
Michael Furlong, Ph.D., Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of School Psychology, was awarded the 2021-2022 UCSB Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship at the University of California Santa Barbara. He provides consultation and support to the California Department of Education and WestEd related to the California Healthy Kids Survey. A co-editor of the Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools (2009, 2014, 2022), he collaborates with colleagues on Project Covitality, supporting schools' efforts to foster all students' social-emotional development.
mfurlong@ucsb.edu
edowdy@ucsb.edu
knylund@education.ucsb.edu
Karen Nylund-Gibson, Ph.D., is a professor of quantitative research methodology in the Department of Education. She has been at UCSB since 2009. Prior to joining the department, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Ph.D. at UCLA, working with Bengt Muthen. Her research focus is on latent variable models, specifically mixture models and she has published many articles and book chapters on developments, best practices, and applications of latent class analysis, latent transition analysis, and growth mixture modeling.
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Erin Dowdy, PhD
Michael Furlong, PhD
Karen Nylund-Gibson, PhD