Kevin S. Sutherland, Ph.D.
Dr. Sutherland is Professor in the Department of Counseling and Special Education, the director of the doctoral studies program, and a research faculty member at the Clark-Hill Institute for Positive
Youth Development in the Psychology department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Sutherland’s research interests and expertise include efforts to enhance the use and fidelity of implementation of evidence-based programs targeting reductions in chronic problem behavior in school and community settings, community-engaged research, and adolescent bullying prevention programs. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple federally funded projects involving the development and evaluation of evidence-based programs in schools, has created assessment tools to examine teachers’ fidelity of implementing these programs in the classroom, and has published more than 70 articles and book chapters describing this work.