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Dr Swanberg's Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Biography

Jennifer E. Swanberg is an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Social Work with joint appointments in the Colleges of Business, Medicine, and Public Health. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist with research interests in understanding how the organization of work impacts individual health and work-life effectiveness, as well as organizational outcomes. Her current research focuses on: workplace flexibility as a dimension of work organization; the relationship between the quality of low-wage hourly retail jobs and employee well-being, work-family conflict, employee engagement and customer satisfaction; domestic violence as a workplace issue; and human capital and quality jobs as drivers of economic development. Her research has been funded by many national entities, including the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Health and Human Services-funded Center on Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Swanberg serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Workplace Innovation (iwin) at the University of Kentucky. She is widely published in scholarly journals, has been featured as a work-life expert in Wall Street Journal , Boston Globe, and on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR news programs. Dr. Swanberg has been recognized by the Alliance of Work-Life Progress as one of the profession’s Rising Stars, her research has been honored by the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research—designating it as one of the top ten research articles in the nation, and she is the work-life columnist for Business Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky’s premier Business publication.

Dr. Swanberg serves on several advisory boards for such organizations as the National Council on Aging’s Public Policy Committee, the Sloan Work-Family Network, the Center on Aging and Work’s States as Employers-of-Choice Project, the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation, the University of Kentucky Center on Poverty Research, and Kentucky Girls STEM Project. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy and a Masters in Human Services Management from Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandies University 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