Dr. Carlomagno Panlilio

Dr. Panlilio′s overarching research is focused on understanding mechanisms that are associated with long-term academic outcomes of adversity-exposed children and youth. Research in this area often fails to account for the complexities surrounding children’s development and learning, employing methodologies that assume a simple or direct pathway. Therefore, his work has focused on explicating more proximal development and learning-related processes such as self-regulation that mediate early adversity and later educational outcomes. Specifically, his program of research, guided by a conceptual framework that brings together an interdisciplinary perspective drawn from child welfare, developmental science, and educational psychology, focuses on building the empirical evidence for this model via three main strands.

These include 1) understanding basic processes surrounding the link across early adversity, self-regulation, and education outcomes; 2) understanding and improving trauma-informed or adversity-informed educational support for students with a history of early life stress; and 3) improving statistical, measurement, and evaluation methodologies to better capture the complexities inherent in development, learning, and prevention efforts. As an iterative process, these three strands inform one another in such a way that promotes translation of the work, especially within frontline professionals in family- and child-serving systems such as early care, schools, and child welfare.