Hands-on researchers,
Faculty & Research
We’re committed to conducting inventive research—work that informs solutions to complex social problems and promotes the common good.
Graduate and undergraduate students can research alongside our world-renowned faculty, whose expansive initiatives improve communities and influence local, national, and international education and policy. As they put their analysis into action, faculty members help guide students’ growth as critical thinkers, reflective leaders, and engaged citizens.
Lynch School faculty tackle the most pressing educational issues facing children, schools, and communities. Through an impressive range of studies and approaches, our faculty promote healthy lives filled with meaning and purpose.
Research by the numbers
32%
of the University’s total research dollars
2022–23
$16M
research funding
2022-23
Meet Our Faculty
Our leading scholar-practitioners and dedicated mentors improve practice, shape policy, and prepare students to serve diverse populations around the world.
Transformative Research
At the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, our faculty are innovative researchers and thought leaders. Their scholarship aims to not only advance academic knowledge in their fields, but to serve communities across the globe.
At the heart of Lynch School research is one goal: direct application to improve schools, communities, and lives. By putting scholarship into practice, our students and faculty help disrupt inequality and enhance the lives of children, families, and adults—right here in Boston, across the United States, and around the world.
- ALL
- MESA Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics & Assessment
- CDEP Counseling, Developmental & Educational Psychology
- IDPG Interdisciplinary Programs
- ELHE Educational Leadership & Higher Education
- TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society