Sue Swearer
Dr. Sue Swearer is Willa Cather Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Swearer is co-director of the Bullying Research Network and director of the Bullying Research and Victim Empowerment (BRAVE) Lab. Additionally, Dr. Swearer is a supervising psychologist in the Child and Adolescent Therapy Clinic at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and served as director of the Nebraska Internship Consortium.
Dr. Swearer is a nationally recognized leader in the field of bullying prevention and intervention and joined UNL in 1997. For more than two decades, Swearer has developed and implemented a data-based decision-making model for responding to bullying among school-aged youth. Her research on bullying behaviors among school-aged youth has examined correlates and consequences of bullying, with the goal of helping students, school personnel and parents stop the bullying dynamic.
For more information on Swearer’s work, visit BRAVE Lab. Learn more about Dr. Swearer.
Ph.D., School Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997
M.A., School Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993
M.S., Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1989
B.A., Psychology, Swarthmore College, 1987