Lorey Wheeler, Ph.D.

Lorey Wheeler, Ph.D., is the director of the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics & Psychometrics, in addition to being a research professor at the Nebraska Center for Research on Children in the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her Ph.D. in Family and Human Development at Arizona State University. 

Dr. Wheeler has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal articles, and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, Institute of Education Sciences, Centers for Disease Control, Administration for Children and Families, and the Spencer Foundation. Her research program focuses on the role of family and context in individual development, including outcomes related to interpersonal relationships, psychosocial adjustment, and educational and occupational outcomes among minoritized and understudied populations. A second focus of her research pertains to complex research designs and statistical models used to answer questions about ecological, developmental, and relational phenomena, evaluation of intervention and prevention programs, and the translation of these methods into useful tools for researchers. She has published extensively on numerous developmental periods (e.g., childhood, adolescence, adulthood), contexts (e.g., family, schools, workplaces), and system level factors (e.g., systems of oppression, culture).

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