Owing to the global pandemic, the WFRN rescheduled its 2020 conference (which was originally planned for New York City) into a set of Virtual Conference Events that occur on the second Friday of most months beginning in July 2020 and extending through April 2021. Virtual events are live and recorded and are only accessible to those who have registered.  Registration is now closed.

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE SERIES PROGRAM

The full program can be viewed here: 2020 Virtual Conference Series Password Protected Program. Use the password VCS2020.

The program without live event links or recordings can be accessed by clicking this link: 2020 Virtual Conference Series Public Access Program 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Community, Work & Family Special Issue: Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Possibilities for Change and New Frontiers.

Heejung Chung, Ameeta Jaga, and Susan Lambert, representatives of the Work and Family Researchers Network, are editing a special issue of the journal Community, Work & Family. We seek submissions that offer new perspectives into advancing equality at work and home that address the persistent work-life challenges experienced by workers across the world. The aim of the special issue is to further knowledge on inequality at work and home and realistic pathways for reducing it, by attending to the intersectionally complex nature of work and family in diverse contexts. Earlier versions of the articles should have been (or is planned to be) presented at the 2020/21 WFRN Virtual Conference series OR at the 2018 WFRN Conference.  For more information click here.

RECORDED PRESENTATIONS

The WFRN is committed to disseminating reliable scholarship on work-family concerns.  For that reason, we are making all of the recorded presentations from the 2020 Virtual Conference Series available to the global community.  Recorded presentations can be found by clicking here.  An index of recorded presentations can be found in the Virtual Conference Series Program (above).

SCHEDULE OF LIVE PLENARIES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, AUTHOR MEETS READERS, PAPER PRESENTATIONS

  • July 17, 2020 (Americas-friendly times) 
    • 2:00pm to 4:45pm GMT (10am-12:45pm New York; 3pm-5:45pm London; 11pm-1:45am Tokyo
  • September 11, 2020 (Americas-friendly times) 
    • 2:00pm to 4:45pm GMT (10am-12:45pm New York; 3pm-5:45pm London; 11pm-1:45am Tokyo
  • October 9, 2020 WFRN Live Sessions (Europe/Africa-friendly time)
    • 9:00am-11:45am GMT (5:00am-7:45am New York; 10:00am-12:45pm London; 6:00pm-8:45pm Tokyo)
  • November 20, 2020 WFRN Live Plenary (Americas-friendly time)
    • 2:00pm to 3:30pm GMT (10am-11:30am New York; 3pm-4:30pm London; 11pm-12:30am Tokyo)
  • December 11, 2020 WFRN Live Sessions (Asia/Oceania-friendly time)
    • 1:00am-3:45am GMT (9:00pm-11:45pm on December 10th New York; 2:00am-4:45am on December 11th London; 10:00am-12:45pmTokyo on December 11, 2020)
  • January 8, 2021 WFRN Live Sessions (Americas-friendly time)
    • 2:00pm to 6:15pm GMT (10am-2:15pm New York; 3pm-7:15pm London; 11pm-3:15am Tokyo)
  • February 5, 2021 Live Plenary (Americas-friendly time)
    • 2:00pm to 3:30pm GMT (10am-11:30 New York; 3pm-4:30pm London; 11pm-12:30am Tokyo)
  • February 12, 2021 WFRN Live Sessions (Europe/Africa-friendly time)
    • 9:00am-11:45am GMT (5:00am-7:45am New York; 10:00am-12:15pm London; 6:00pm-8:45pm Tokyo)
  • March 12, 2021 WFRN Live Sessions (Americas-friendly times)
    • 2:00pm to 4:45pm GMT (10am-12:45pm New York; 3pm-5:45pm London; 11pm-1:45am Tokyo)

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

SPONSORS

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hugh Bainbridge, Ph.D. University of New South Wales, Australia

Rupashree Baral, Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Alexandria Beauregard, Ph.D. University of London, United Kingdom

Laura Den Dulk, Ph.D. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Jennifer Glass, Ph.D. University of Texas, United States

Lonnie Golden, Ph.D. Penn State Abington, United States

Jing Guo, Ph.D. University of Hawaii, United States

Wen-Jui Han, Ph.D. New York University, United States

Brad Harrington, Ph.D. Boston College, United States

Ameeta Jaga, Ph.D. University of Cape Town, South Africa

Erin Kelly, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Susan Lambert, Ph.D. (chair) University of Chicago, United States

Jean-Charles Languilare, Ph.D. Jönköping University, Sweden

Mélanie Lefrançois, Ph.D. University of Quebec, Canada

Russell Matthews, Ph.D. University of Alabama, United States

Ruby Mendenhall, Ph.D. University of Illinois, United States

Kamala Ramadoss, Ph.D. Syracuse University, United States

Jeremy Reynolds, Ph.D. Purdue University, United States

Sabrina Speights, Ph.D. Wheaton College Massachusetts, United States

Tanja van der Lippe, Ph.D. Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

Machiko Osawa, Ph.D. Japan Women’s University, Japan

AWARDS AND RECIPIENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS: COMMUNITY, WORK AND FAMILY SPECIAL ISSUE

A call for papers relating to the conference theme Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration.  Details will be provided soon.

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