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Jennifer E. Swanberg, Ph.D., a professor in the UK College of Social Work with joint appointments in the Colleges of Business and Economics, Medicine and Public Health and is the executive director and founder of the Institute for Workplace Innovation (iwin) at the University of Kentucky. She is also a faculty affiliate with the UK Center on Poverty Research and the Center for the Advancement of Women's Health, a Research Fellow of the Boston College Work & Family Roundtable, and a member of the Employee Policy Research Network. During the 2012-2013 academic year Dr. Swanberg is a visiting research professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Social Work.

Dr. Swanberg is an interdisciplinary social scientist with broad research interests in understanding how the social contexts of work contribute to health among individuals; how social policies affect individuals’ quality of life; and how information on these issues can be used to improve organizational practice and social policies. Her research focuses primarily on the organization of work, low-wage jobs, occupational health disparities and antecedents of work-family conflict among underrepresented and vulnerable working populations.

Dr. Swanberg's research has been funded by the Ford, Alfred P. Sloan, and Johnson & Johnson Foundations, as well as the Center on Disease Control (CDC), U.S. Health and Human Services and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Her research and has been published in top research journals and she serves on editorial boards of three journals: Community, Work & Family,  Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, and Journal of Teaching in Social Work

She has appeared as a national and international work-family expert on television and radio including MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NPR, BBC and CBC as well as in many print or online journals including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Miller and McCune, Human Resource Executive. She has been recognized by Alliance of Work-Life Progress as one of the profession's Rising Stars, and her research has been selected as one of the top 10 research articles by the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  In April 2010, she was among a handful of researchers invited by President and first Lady Obama to the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility.

Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, Dr. Swanberg worked as a research associate at the National Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and at the Families and Work Institute (FWI) in New York City. While at FWI, she co-authored The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. Dr. Swanberg has a Ph.D. in Social Policy and a MMHS in Management from the Heller School of Management and Social Policy, and a B.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of New Hampshire.

Education

• Ph.D. Social Policy
  Heller School of Social Policy and Public Management
  Brandeis University, 1997
• Masters in Management of Human Services, 1991
  Concentration: Family and Children's Policy
• B.S., Occupational Therapy, 1984
  University of New Hampshire