2026 SC3 Dissertation Award Winner

Last updated on May 25, 2026 1 min read

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Lakhvir Kaur for winning the 2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of School Climate

Her dissertation is entitled: “Cultural Congruity and School Climate: A Cross-Cultural Validation of the School Cultural Congruity Scale (SCCS)”. Her dissertation was chaired by Dr. Shane Jimerson.

She is a graduate of the school psychology program at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology.

Dr. Lakhvir Kaur

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).