Lorey Wheeler, Ph.D.

Director, Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics
Research Associate Professor

Lorey Wheeler’s collaborative research program focuses on the role of family and context in individual development, including outcomes related to interpersonal relationships, psychosocial adjustment, nd educational outcomes. Grounded in developmental perspectives, her work addresses proximal contexts (e.g., families, workplaces, schools) and the mechanisms by which these are linked to youth and family adjustment. A second focus of her research pertains to statistical models used to answer questions about complex ecological, developmental and relational phenomena, and the translation of these methods into tools useful to developmental, family and preventive-intervention scientists. Her statistical expertise includes longitudinal and dyadic data, mediation/moderation, missing data, structural equation modeling, mixture modeling, multilevel modeling.

She has expertise in data management best practices at different phases of the research lifecycle; with the goal of making sure research data are curated in a timely manner, can be publicly shared at the time of publication, and can be easily reused and re-analyzed by others.

Wheeler received her doctorate in family and human development from Arizona State University.