Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D.
Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
Director – Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
Phone: 617-627-5558
Email: Richard.Lerner@tufts.edu
Assistant: Lori.Campbell@tufts.edu
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Elizabeth Dowling, Ph.D.
Deputy Director – Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
Roya Abbasi-Asl, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Email: Roya.Abbasiasl@tufts.edu
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Mary Buckingham, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Project Director – 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development:
Reconnection and Replication
Email: Mary.Buckingham@tufts.edu
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Jonathan Tirrell, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Compassion International project
Forgiveness projec
Email: Jonathan.Tirrell@tufts.edu
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Dian Yu, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Email: Dian.Yu@tufts.edu
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Visiting Professors
Marc H. Bornstein, Ph.D.
UNICEF Senior Advisor for Research for ECD Parenting Programmes, NYC, NY, USA
Affiliate, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD USA
International Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK
Alistair T R Sim, Ph.D.
Principal Scientific Advisor (MERL), Compassion International
Conjoint Professor of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia