We are excited to announce that Ann Skinner, 2020-21 Research Supervisor, will hold the Alumni lecture at this years Open Conference!
Global perspectives of parenting, adolescent development, and young-adult well-being during community-wide stressors (Lecturer: Ann Skinner)
Ann Skinner is a Research Scientist with the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, USA, where she has worked since 2001. Her research focuses on the ways in which stressful community, familial, and interpersonal events impact parent-child relationships, and on the development of aggression and internalizing behaviors in youth. She has extensive experience in data management of multisite and cross-national projects and in supervising teams for school- and community-based interventions and data collection. Skinner is a former supervisor in in the 2020-21 cohort of the JRP where her team explored the associations among experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescent and young adult adjustment. With support from the Society of Research on Adolescence and the John Templeton Foundation, she was chosen as a COVID-19 Global Scholars Fellow, and is collaborating with researchers in 5 countries to further explore adolescent and young-adult wellbeing during the pandemic using multiple data sets. Skinner has a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, a master’s degree in education, and B.A. in psychology, both from the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA, with a focus on teaching students with emotional and learning disabilities.
Ann Skinner, supervisor from the 2020-21 cohort, will present the alumni lecture on “Global perspectives of parenting, adolescent development, and young-adult well-being during community-wide stressors”. This lecture will include 3 parts: First, framed by an ongoing 14-year, 9-country study of parenting and youth development, she will engage the audience in a conversation about the benefits and challenges of cross-national collaboration. Next, she will present an overview of research on families’ experiences during community wide stressors, including COVID-19, community violence exposure, and political violence. The talk concludes with a discussion of the research conducted by her JRP team over the last two years.
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