Category: Faculty Partner Research

Learn how small changes in leadership and workplace culture can make a big difference in well-being, performance, and family engagement at this year’s Kanter Lecture, March 6 at 3 p.m. Kanter Award Finalist, Ellen Ernst Kossek will highlight how training supervisors to be more supportive can help employees feel less burned out and more engaged.

A.J. Schwichtenberg – Sleep problem treatments are commonly used by families raising children with developmental disabilities (DD). However, intervention targets often build exclusively on parent reports which can include inherent biases or missing information.

Elizabeth Hoffmann – Membership in worker co-operatives often demands more work and dedication than standard jobs. Committee work, co-governance, membership meetings, and “pitching in” to help other members with their work are all demands on co-op members’ time and effort that conventional jobs do not make.

Zoe Taylor – Increased sleep duration, along with earlier bedtimes, seem to promote health by decreasing overweight risk in Midwestern Latine youth. Earlier bedtimes are associated with lowering the risk for being overweight, even when controlling for sleep duration.

Jeremy Reynolds – Electrification, especially when paired with low-carbon electricity resources, is one pathway for reducing emissions from the industrial sector, but it will also require changes to manufacturing processes and jobs of workers in the industry. To learn more about what job attributes workers value most and thus are most important to preserve in a just electrification transition, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews followed by a short survey with workers employed in the steel industry.

Zoe Taylor – Latina immigrant mothers living in emerging immigrant destinations often face geographic isolation, discrimination, and socioeconomic stress that adversely affect parenting and mental health.

Nasreen Lalani – Financial stress can lead to emotional and psychosocial distress among informal caregivers of older adults and can have a profound impact on their overall well-being. While social support may buffer financial stress, the role of gender in moderating these relationships is less understood.

Heather Eicher-Miller, Xinran Lehto, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, and David Purpura appeared on Elsevier’s list of the top 2% of the world’s most-cited researchers. Information complied by the College of Health and Human Sciences.

Annabelle Atkin – This study seeks to address the research question: What are U.S. White women college students’ attitudes toward race-conscious affirmative action policy in college admissions since the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, and how do they relate to their racial attitudes?

Zoe Taylor – The family stress model of economic hardship provided one of the first empirically tested models to explain the mechanisms linking economic disadvantage to children’s well-being and remains relevant and central to a wide range of families—both in the United States and globally—today.