MICRO-BIO

• Dr. Helen Vrailas Bateman received her doctorate from the Psychology and Human Development Department of Vanderbilt University. She was the recipient of a two-year McDonnell Foundation Fellowship award. She then worked as a research fellow at the Le...More

  Dr. Helen Vrailas Bateman received her doctorate from the Psychology and Human Development Department of Vanderbilt University. She was the recipient of a two-year McDonnell Foundation Fellowship award. She then worked as a research fellow at the Learning Technology Center, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She is presently an associate professor of Psychology at the University of the South. Her research and publications have explored the construct of Psychological Sense of Community, its dimensions, and its importance in human learning. She has developed and validated a scale measuring Psychological Sense of Community in a variety of settings. Her measure and research findings have been used extensively in a variety of educational settings and countries. Her recent work focuses on the relationship between psychological sense of community in the school and classroom and children's aggression and victimization as well as the relationship between children's BMI and psychological sense of community in the school and classroom.

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EXPERIENCE

• Sewanee: The University of the South

  • Associate Professor, Psychology Department

EDUCATION

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