Best Conference Paper Award – Honoring Suzan Lewis
2026 Nomination Deadline Extended to April 1
This award recognizes the author(s) of an original paper identified as the, “best conference paper.” The award creates (and recreates) excitement at each conference about papers that are innovative and have the potential to “move the field” forward.
Honoring Suzan Lewis
Suzan Lewis is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University, London. In 1998, while in her previous post at Manchester Metropolitan University, she became founding co-editor with Carolyn Kagan of the journal Community, Work and Family. A special issue of the journal was published in 2016, celebrating Suzan’s contribution to work-family research. She also co-organised the first biannual Community, Work and Family Conference in 2005. Dr. Lewis has led many national and international research projects on gender, work and family issues, workplace practice, culture and change in diverse national contexts. She has worked with employers and policy makers internationally, for example, providing evidence to the UK Parliament, the European Commission and the (former) Japanese Ministry of Labour. Among her many publications, co-authored and edited books include: Dual Earner Families: International Perspectives (1992); The Work Family Challenge (with her son, Jeremy Lewis) (1996); The Myth of Work-Life Balance (2006); and Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond (2017).
2026 Best Paper Award
The 2026 Award Committee Bianca Stumbitz (Chair) is pleased to announce the following best paper recipient and semi-finalists:
RECIPIENT
- Eunsil Oh Low Fertility Politics, Policy and Demography: The Korean Experience
SEMI-FINALISTS
- Juliana de Castro Galvao Families, Work, and Welfare States: How Does Family Formation Reshape Household Income Trajectories?
- Mara A. Yerkes, Marilou Vlaanderen, Cato Veuger On Call, Off Track? The Hidden Career Costs of On-Call Parenthood
- Rahat Shah Still the Breadwinner? Masculinity, Space, and Symbolic Authority Among Unemployed Married Men in Pakistan