Nominations are now open for 2026 WFRN Awards

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Nominations are now open for 2026 WFRN Awards.

WFRN Lifetime Achievement Award

• The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes extraordinary scholars who have made enduring contributions to the work-family community.  The award is selected by the Executive Board of the WFRN.  Nomination deadline February 1, 2026.

 The Kathleen Christensen Dissertation Award

• This award recognizes a recent graduate of a doctoral program who has already made a significant contribution to the work and family knowledge base. The Kathleen Christensen Dissertation Award has been created to encourage doctoral candidates and early career scholars to reach for/achieve high and rigorous standards of research relevant to the work and family area of study. It provides financial support to help a promising work-family scholar to initiate post-dissertation research.  This award is co-sponsored and co-selected by the Work and Family Researchers Network and the Society for Human Resource Management. This award is made possible by generous support from the Northrop Grumman Corporation, the Families and Work Institute, the SHRM Foundation, SHRM’s National Study of the Changing Workforce, and the Work and Family Researchers Network members. Nomination deadline February 15, 2026

The Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award

• This award recognizes a work-family researcher or research team who have/has contributed break-through thinking to the work-family field via theory, measures, and/or data sets that led to expansive application, innovation, and diffusion, including the sharing of research opportunity in the spirit of open science.  Nomination deadline February 1, 2026.

WFRN Global South Travel Awards

• To maximize geographic diversity within the WFRN,  WFRN Global South Travel Awards are intended to help scholars from economically-disadvantaged locales secure financial support to attend the WFRN’s biennial conference.  A full list of qualifying countries can be found here. Awards include a regular membership, conference registration, as well as reimbursement of $500 for travel expenses incurred (which can include hotels, food, flights, ground transportation, and visa fees).  Application deadline January 1, 2026.

Information about all awards can be found at this link: https://wfrn.org/awards/.