Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Adolescent development
  • Resilience processes
  • Program evaluation
  • Transition from secondary to tertiary

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

About Laurie Chapin

Laurie's research experience relates to resilience of young people from various populations. Laurie’s current research interests are in the resilience of youth, investigating outcomes like leadership, psychological wellbeing, and academic engagement, as well as youth programs to build resilience and promoting positive outcomes.

Laurie is also interested in the needs and potential vulnerability of first-in-family (FIF) university students. She has developed VU Kick Start, a program aimed at building the resilience of FIF students in their first year of study.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Colorado State University, 2010
  • MS, Colorado State University, 2005
  • BA, Colorado State University, 2000

Key publications

Laurie has over 17 publications, with a selection listed here.


A more comprehensive list of Laurie's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.

Year Citation
2018 Chapin, L., Deans, C., & Fabris, M. (181201). "After film club I felt greater and more confident": Building school engagement for CALD students Paper presented at AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGIST (pp. 17-17). WILEY.

Year Citation
2022 Pires, C. M., & Chapin, L. A. (220901). Barriers, support, and resilience of prospective first-in-family university students: Australian high school educators' perspective. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(7), (3221-3236).

doi: 10.1002/jcop.22834
2022 Chapin, L. A., Fowler, M. A., & Deans, C. L. (220101). The role of adult facilitators in arts-based extracurricular settings: Perceived factors for success of adult-youth relationships. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(1), (176-190).

doi: 10.1002/jcop.22513
2021 T., Puxley., & Chapin, L. A. (210701). Building youth leadership skills and community awareness: Engagement of rural youth with a community-based leadership program. Journal of Community Psychology, 49(5), (1063-1078).

doi: 10.1002/jcop.22501
2021 Gill, P., Scacco, S., De, Haan., Gent, A., Chapin, L., Ganci, M., & Morda, R. (210401). Getting into the Dad Zone : How Do Primary Caregiving Fathers of Young Children Experience Social Support?. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(4), (1028-1042).

doi: 10.1007/s10826-021-01919-1
2021 Chapin, L. A. (210101). Longitudinal predictors for Mexican Americans high school and college graduation: Individual and ecodevelopmental factors. Journal of Latinos and Education, 20(2), (161-176).

doi: 10.1080/15348431.2019.1588733
2019 Chapin, L. A., Deans, C. L., & Fabris, M. A. (190301). After film club, I actually got better at everything : School engagement and the impact of an after-school film club. Children and Youth Services Review, 98 (10-16).

doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.057
2018 Parkhill, A., Deans, C. L., & Chapin, L. A. (180501). Pre-leadership processes in leadership training for adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review, 88 (375-379).

doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.03.033
2018 Chapin, L. A. (180101). Australian university students' access to web-based lecture recordings and the relationship with lecture attendance and academic performance. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(5), (1-12).

doi: 10.14742/ajet.2989
2015 Chapin, L. A. (150601). Mexican-American Boys Positive Outcomes and Resilience: Importance of Social Support and Individual Attributes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(6), (1791-1799).

doi: 10.1007/s10826-014-9982-8

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

VU Kick Start: 2020 Semester 2
From: The Arthur A Thomas Trust
For period: 2020-2020
 $9,907

Benefits of participation in arts-based education transition programs
From: College of Health and Biomedicine, Polyglot Theatre Company Grant
Other investigators: Dr Carolyn Deans
For period: 2017-2019
 Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Principal supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Principal supervisor

Careers

Details of this Researcher's career are currently unavailable.