John Kosciulek
John F. Kosciulek, Ph.D., retired as a professor in the Department of Health & Kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in December 2024. He currently serves as a senior research evaluator with the Illinois Institute for Rehabilitation and Employment Research (IIRER). As a rehabilitation counseling educator, researcher and clinician for over 30 years, John has extensive experience in state and national vocational rehabilitation program evaluation, research, and training projects. He has conducted programs of research in the areas of family adaptation to disability, career development of people with disabilities, consumer-directed rehabilitation service delivery and policy development, and rehabilitation counseling theory development. John developed and studied both the Theory of Informed Consumer Choice in Vocational Rehabilitation and the Consumer-Directed Theory of Empowerment. He has received multiple research and teaching awards and has served on the editorial review boards of numerous professional, refereed journals. John has also been successful in procuring multiple research and training grants totaling over $20 million.
Education
- Ph.D., Rehabilitation Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
- M.S., Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Arizona-Tucson, 1986
- B.E.S., Rehabilitation Services, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1985