2025 SC3 Dissertation Award Winner

Last updated on Aug 5, 2025 1 min read

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Kate R. Watson for winning the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of School Climate

Her dissertation is entitled: “Social Worker Perceptions of Trauma-Informed Schools: A Multistudy, Mixed Method Analsis of School Practices, Policies, and Climate. Her dissertation committee included: Ron Avi Astor (Chair), Laura Abrams, Todd Franke, and Tyrone Howard.

She is a recent graduate from UCLA Social Welfare. To learn more about Kate, you can visit here website.

Francis Huang
Francis Huang
Professor / SIG Program Chair

My research interests include school climate, school violence, and threat assessment. My methodological interests focus on the analysis of clustered data (multilevel modeling).