Faculty Partner Program
Bring your expertise. Connect across disciplines. Discover what’s possible.
Families are complex, and understanding what helps them thrive requires many perspectives. CFF brings Purdue faculty together to explore important questions about families, connect research and ideas, and discover new possibilities for strengthening families and improving quality of life.
The Faculty Partner Program is an opportunity to connect your expertise with a broader, multidisciplinary community at Purdue and beyond.
Why become a Faculty Partner?
Connect your work with a broader community.
CFF’s multidisciplinary approach creates opportunities to connect family-focused research with broader conversations happening across Purdue. CFF is part of a larger culture of collaboration, one where complex challenges are approached by bringing disciplines and perspectives together.
Discover new possibilities for your research.
Being part of CFF can open doors to new questions, collaborators, conversations and opportunities. Whether you’re looking for a research connection, a community partner, an interdisciplinary perspective or a way to share your work, CFF can help you find connections that move your work forward.
Extend the reach of your scholarship.
CFF creates opportunities to bring research to audiences beyond your discipline and beyond Purdue. Through events, publications, communications, community engagement and other opportunities, your work can reach people who may use, build on or be inspired by what you’re discovering.
Create opportunities for others.
Faculty Partners help build a community where students, emerging scholars and fellow researchers can explore new ideas and develop meaningful connections. Your expertise can become part of something larger than your individual research.
You don’t have to study “the family” to study families.
Your research may focus on health, aging, nutrition, child development, mental health, technology, economics, education, work, the environment, animal-human relationships, policy or another area entirely.
If your research explores families, family relationships, or the experiences and well-being of people across the life course, there may be opportunities to connect with CFF.
What does being a Faculty Partner look like?
There is no single way to be a Faculty Partner.
You might:
- Share your research through a CFF event or publication.
- Connect with faculty from another discipline around a shared question.
- Collaborate on research or pursue CFF funding opportunities.
- Mentor or support emerging scholars.
- Connect research with practitioners or community partners.
- Participate in CFF conversations, initiatives, or advisory opportunities.
- Help us identify new questions, ideas, and opportunities related to families.
The goal isn’t simply to add another affiliation to your CV. It’s to create connections that make new work possible.
What CFF can offer
Faculty Partners have opportunities to engage with:
Research
Connect with interdisciplinary scholarship and opportunities to develop new research.
People
Meet faculty, students, practitioners and community partners who bring different perspectives and expertise.
Visibility
Share your scholarship through CFF events, stories, publications and other communications.
Funding & Recognition
Access select CFF funding, fellowship and student support opportunities, as well as opportunities for recognition of family-focused scholarship.
Engagement
Connect your expertise with CFF initiatives and opportunities that bring research into conversation with communities and practice.
Leadership
Contribute to the Center through advisory, review and other leadership opportunities.
Meet the Faculty Partners
Discover the researchers who are exploring questions about families across Purdue.
Ready to connect?
If your research, teaching or expertise intersects with questions about families, we invite you to become part of the CFF community. Bring your expertise. Connect across disciplines. Discover what’s possible.
Contact CFF with questions, cff@purdue.edu.