Susan Sheridan
Dr. Susan Sheridan is the founding director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools and professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She talks about collaborative research to help children succeed. Since 1994, Susan Sheridan has had federal grants (funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) geared toward the establishment of effective relationships and partnerships for children and youth. Dr. Sheridan has received more than $73 million in grant funding and has authored more than 230 books, chapters and articles, including several award-winning papers. Additionally, she is the first UNL faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Education, an organization of more than 300 U.S. and international researchers who seek to improve education policy and practice through research. She is particularly interested in relationships between parents and teachers, and identifying meaningful ways to establish home–school partnerships.
Dr. Sheridan is the past editor of School Psychology Review, the research journal of the National Association of School Psychologists, and past-president of the Society of the Study of School Psychology.
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1989
M.S., Psychology, Western Illinois University, 1984
B.S., Psychology, Western Illinois University, 1982