Final Conference Program
The 2024 conference theme is Big Questions in Work-Family, which will be part of a two-year agenda. These are the cutting-edge global questions that are not yet fully answered or recognized, including:
CHANGES IN WORK – What are the meanings of work at different life stages, for different groups, and in different kinds of jobs? How is work organized? What is the future of work and for whom?
CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE – How are families and family experiences changing around the globe and what changes might we expect? For example, fertility rates are declining in high-income countries and there are reports of an epidemic of loneliness. What other changes are evident and what are the implications?
CHANGES IN WORK-LIFE INTERFACE: What theories, concepts, and measures best explain new and emerging intersections between work and family?
THE LIFE COURSE – How do changes in work and family impact children and their capacities to enter adult roles, for adults to successfully navigate transitions, and for older populations to age well?
SOLUTIONS AND PROMISING PRACTICES – What are the most promising solutions in policy and practice in the global north and south? What are the challenges and best opportunities for advancing equity and social justice?
The conference’s objective is to chart an agenda for the future of work-family research, policy and practice. In addition to sharing new research and seeking answers to big questions, this is a working conference, fostering active participation and connectivity among diverse groups. We anticipate more than 500 work-family stakeholders in attendance and a dynamic program centered on meaningful exchange. There will be numerous events to connect a global community of scholars with thought leaders in media, philanthropy, practice, policy, and social change.
With excitement about the years ahead,
Ellen Galinsky, WFRN President
Hugh Bainbridge
Rupashree Baral
Alexandra Beauregard
Erin Cech
Xi Wen Chan
Vanessa Conzon
Allison Daminger
Jennifer Faone
Peter Fugiel
Marc Grau Grau
Yang Hu
Karen Kramer
Katherina Kuschel
Jean-Charles Languilare
Prudence Mabaso
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
Abigail Opoku Mensah
Kitha Mokomane
Berkay Ozcan
Gabrielle Pepin
Pascale Peters
Rachel Pettigrew
Alejandra Ros Pilarz
Jeremy Reynolds
Casey Scheibling
Claudia Sellmaier
Nora Spinks
Bianca Stumbitz
Marisa Young
Grand Reception Information
Conference delegates are welcomed to join together from 7pm-9pm on Thursday June 20 at the historic Windsor Ballrooms, located at 1170 rue Peel. The reception will provide open bar, hors d’ouevres and opportunity celebrate our vibrant community.
For directions to the Windsor Hotel using Goolge Maps, click here
Call for Papers
Following the WFRN 2024 Biennial Conference, presenters are encouraged to submit papers for consideration to a special issue of the journal Community, Work & Family, which will be edited by Ellen Galinsky, Tammy Allen and Krista Lynn Minnotte. The theme of the special issue will be Big Questions in Work-Family and submissions should be crafted to fit that thematic purpose. Below is the timeframe for the special issue:
- Deadline for submission of manuscripts: October 15, 2024
- First review process completed: January 31, 2025
- Revised manuscripts must be resubmitted by: April 1, 2025
- Second review process completed: July 1, 2025
- Revised manuscripts must be resubmitted by: October 1, 2025
- Publication of special issue: January 1, 2026 issue 1
Submission procedures will be posted after the 2024 conference.
Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program
The Work and Family Researchers Network is committed to mentoring the next generation of work and family scholars. Our Early Career Fellowship Program provides support for recent doctoral recipients to advance their research, teaching, and long-term career prospects. By offering networked resources and consultation, we help promising new scholars move into tenure-track, tenured appointments and secure senior-level positions, as well as engage them with the work and family community of scholars. The WFRN provided a call for applications, which ended October 15, 2023, and anticipates a similar call in advance of the next biennial conference.
The WFRN Welcomes 2024 Early Career Fellowship Recipients!
The WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program is co-directed by Nicole Denier and Yang Hu, who organized this year’s preconference and will guide the 2024 cohort moving forward. To date, 140 early career scholars have participated in this program, which is designed to deliver a variety of supports for advancement to secure senior-level positions, as well as assist attendance at the WFRN Conference. The call for applications for the 2024 fellowships yielded close to 70 applications. With thanks to the selection committee Renada Goldberg, Nicole Denier, and Yang Hu, we are delighted to announce this year’s fellowship recipients.
- Mariam Abouelenin, Ph.D., Lancaster University, UK
- Kwaku Abrefa Busia, Ph.D., Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
- Miriam Barcus, Ph.D., The State University of New York at Cortland, USA
- Sarah Bourdeau, Ph.D., University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
- Haley Cobb, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, USA
- Vanessa Conzon, Ph.D., Boston College, USA
- LaToya Council, Ph.D., Lehigh University, USA
- Allison Daminger, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, USA
- Moses Dang, Ph.D., Teesside University, UK
- Victoria Daniel, Ph.D., York University, Canada
- Camille Desjardins, Ph.D., Renmin University, China
- Juliana de Castro Galvao, Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK
- Christina Hymer, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, USA
- Cynthia Halliday, Ph.D., The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
- Sidra Kamran, Ph.D., Lewis & Clark College, USA
- Nicole Kapelle, Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Thomas Lyttelton, Ph.D., Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Eunjeong Paek, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- Vedavati Patwardhan, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, USA
- Federica Querin, Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy
- Harchand Ram, Ph.D., International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
- Megan N. Reed, Ph.D., Emory University, USA
- Joseph Regina, Ph.D., Rutgers University, USA
- Laila Schmitt, Ph.D., LMU Munich, Germany
- Meredith Slopen, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, USA
- Haoming Song, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, USA
- Daniela R. Urbina Julio, Ph.D., University of Southern California, USA
- Lili Vargha, Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Mengyi Xu, Ph.D., Birmingham University, UK
Recipients represent a wide range of disciplines, including the fields of economics, human resources, management, human development, organizational science, public health, public policy, psychology, social work, demography, and sociology. This year’s Early Career Fellows (ECFs) are also internationally diverse—they either live on, or study the experiences of people living on, all six habitable continents. Fellowship recipients share a common interest in identifying connections and consequences of work and family arrangements, as well as working together to advance mutual career interests and goals.
The ECFs’ research programs address a wide variety of topics that include, gender and intersectional inequality, work-family conflict, spillover, crossover and boundary management, work-family dynamics over the life course, employee health, stress, and well-being, state and organizational-level family-related policies (parental leave, sick leave, child subsidies), cognitive labor and the mental load, remote work and teleworking, workplace EDI, care and domestic work, poverty, among other topics. As a group, this year’s ECFs share a passion for examining the experiences of traditionally under-studied groups in work-family research, including people with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, women of color, and families and workers in the Global South, as well as addressing pertinent challenges and opportunities, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalization, for work and family lives.
We welcome these scholars to the program and their participation in the Work and Family Researchers Network!
Contact Information
Nicole Denier, Ph.D. (nicole.denier@ualberta.ca) and Yang Hu, Ph.D. Yang Hu (yang.hu@lancaster.ac.uk) are Co-directors of the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program.
WFRN Global South Travel Awards
To maximize geographic diversity within the Global South, the WFRN Global South Travel Awards are intended to help scholars from economically-disadvantaged locales secure financial support to attend the WFRN’s biennial conference. Awards include a regular membership, conference registration, and reimbursement of $500 for travel expenses incurred (which can include hotels, food, flights, ground transportation, and visa fees).
We are pleased to announce the 2024 Award Recipients:
- Tapas Dey, International Institute for Population Sciences, India
- Mariam Gbajumo-Sheriff, Ph.D., Department of Employment Relations & Human Resource Management, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- Srinivas Goli, Ph.D., International Institute for Population Sciences, India
- Babul Hossain, International Institute for Population Sciences, India
- Tania Hutt, Ph.D. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
- Harchand Ram, Ph.D., International Institute for Population Sciences, India
Thank you to Bianca Stumbitz, WFRN International Committee Chair, for leading the selection of decisions in 2024.
Early Career Fund
Sarah Damaske
Andrea Doucet
Kathleen Gerson
Marc Grau-Grau
Edward Hill
Lena Hipp
Jennifer Hook
Susan Lambert
Donna S. Lero
Yvonne Lott
Melissa Milkie
Krista Lynn Minnotte
Kelly Musick
Ipshita Pal
Sarah Patterson
Shirley Porterfield
Linda Quirke
Margaret Shackell
Sabrina L. Speights
Stephen Sweet
Soo Min TOH
Doruk Uysal Irak
Tanja van der Lippe
Mara Yerkes
Marisa Young
Awards Fund
Sarah Damaske
Kathleen Gerson
Marc Grau-Grau
Edward Hill
Lena Hipp
Jennifer Hook
Susan Lambert
Donna S. Lero
Yvonne Lott
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
Melissa Milkie
Krista Lynn Minnotte
Kelly Musick
Ipshita Pal
Sarah Patterson
Shirley Porterfield
Susan Prentice
Linda Quirke
Liana Sayer
Margaret Shackell
Sabrina L. Speights
Stephen Sweet
Soo Min TOH
Doruk Uysal Irak
Tanja van der Lippe
Amy Wharton
Mara Yerkes
Marisa Young
Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research Fund
Kathleen Gerson
Jennifer Hook
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
Kelly Musick
Susan Prentice
Linda Quirke
Liana Sayer
Stephen Sweet
Amy Wharton
BIPOC and Diversity Inclusion Funds
Kess Ballentine
Anna Borg
Eileen M. Brennan
Daniel L. Carlson
Erin A. Cech
Kelly D. Chandler
Heather Cluley Bar-Or
Sydney Rose Colussi
Sarah Damaske
Kim de Laat
Laura den Dulk
Sara Dorow
Alison Earle
Elizabeth Helen Eley
Sylvia Fuller
Kathleen Gerson
Rebecca Glauber
Jill Hanley
Belinda Hewitt
Andrea Hjálmsdóttir
Jennifer Hook
Sandra Idrovo
Marla H. Kohlman
Susan Lambert
Beth Livingston
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
Melissa Milkie
Krista Lynn Minnotte
Kelly Musick
Sarah Patterson
Maureen Perry-Jenkins
Rachael N. Pettigrew
Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Shirley Porterfield
Susan Prentice
Linda Quirke
Margaret A. Shaffer
Sabrina L. Speights
Nora Spinks
Stephen Sweet
Tanja van der Lippe
Aida Villanueva
Amy Wharton
Mara Yerkes
2024 Conference Food Funds
Hugh Bainbridge
Kess Ballentine
Galina Boiarintseva
Anna Borg
Sarah Brauner-Otto
Kathryn Louise Brett
Heejung Chung
Charles Coleman
Sarah Damaske
Laura den Dulk
Christina Madchen Dreger-Smylie
Alison Earle
Sue Epstein
Daniel Erler
Janet Fast
Zachary Finn
Kimberly French
Martha Friendly
Peter J. Fugiel
Sylvia Fuller
Ellen Galinsky
Julia Goodman
Danna Greenberg
Angela Grotto
Leslie Hammer
Jill Hanley
Mojoko Clara Hemeko
Belinda Hewitt
Andrea Hjálmsdóttir
Jessica Hobbs
Heather Hofmeister
Jennifer Hook
John Hopkins
Eva Jaspers
Renge Jibu
Elise Bair Jones
Elise Jones
Hak Yoon Kim
Patrizia Kokot-Blamey
Steve Kovacic
Susan Lambert
Jean-Charles Emile Languilaire
Marianne Lapointe
Beth Livingston
David W.L. Ma
Bongekile P Mabaso
Andrew Nikko Magnaye
Maria I. Marshall
Krista Lynn Minnotte
Kaumudi Misra
Wendy Nilsen
Jessica Pac
Ipshita Pal
Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Christine Pfeiffer
Alejandra Pilarz
Shirley Porterfield
Agnieszka Postepska
Linda Quirke
Gudbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir
Alexandra Rheinhardt
Madeline Ellen Annie Robbenhaar
Maha Sabbah Karkabi
Katina Sawyer
Liana Sayer
Molly Schmidt
Margaret Shackell
Margaret A. Shaffer
Sudong Shang
Shweta Singh
Karen Elizabeth Smith
Lisa Stewart
Soo Min TOH
Cosmas Augustus Uhuo
Tanja van der Lippe
Ronit Waismel-Manor
Carolyn E. Waldrep
Tianying Wang
Deborah Widiss
Julie Yen
Mara Yerkes
General Funds
Hugh Bainbridge
Kathryn Louise Brett
Chuck N. Darrah
Claudia Geist
Kathleen Gerson
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
Margo Hilbrecht
Susan Lambert
Susan Prentice
Maximiliane Reifenscheid
Liana Sayer
Stephen Sweet
Tanja van der Lippe
Julia Yang
The WFRN expresses gratitude to our partners and sponsors, who provided generous support to make the 2024 conference possible.
Benefactors
Patrons
Adam Galinsky and Jennifer Olayon
Promoters
Friends and Organization Partners
Kathleen Gerson
