Adjunct Lecturer
Molly Stewart Lawlor, PhD, is an expert in child and adolescent social and emotional development. Dr. Lawlor’s research includes the investigation of mindfulness and psychological adjustment in children and adolescents, and evaluations of social-emotional learning programs for children and adolescents in school settings. She is the lead author and serves as the Principal Scientific Advisor for the MindUP program (mindup.org), an evidence-based social emotional learning program grounded in neuroscience. Dr. Lawlor is also an advisor to children’s media projects including Peabody award-winning Stillwater (Apple TV), the award-winning Scout and the Gumboot Kids (Canadian Broadcasting Company), and Committee for Children’s Mind Yeti, a guided mindfulness app.
Dr. Lawlor is an adjunct faculty member in the Faculty of Education at UBC, teaching in the area of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and is an instructor for ECED in the area of social and emotional development in young children. Dr. Lawlor is passionate about bringing research to practice in order to make social emotional learning accessible for all children and their adults.