WorkHealthLab
Researching the relationship
between work and health.

Dr. Scott Schieman is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He studies what people think and feel about work—and how they talk about it. He is especially interested in the ways that work shapes the sense of self, status, and well-being. Since 2005, he has collected data from more than 55,000 workers in Canada, the United States, and South Korea. Drawing upon decades of quantitative and qualitative data, his research tells the story about the quality of work and economic life and their effects on our everyday lives.

Dr. Paul Glavin is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. His research examines emerging challenges to the employment and health of Canadian workers, with a focus on Canadians’ experiences in self-employment and alternative work arrangements.

Alexander Wilson is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Toronto. He studies how new technologies interact with work and social stratification. His projects have dealt with how AI exposure shapes career transitions, how workers interpret automation as a threat to their livelihoods, and how workers defend their occupational identities from technological threat.

Daniel Hill is a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the department of Sociology. His primary research interests are based in Social Psychology and Occupational Mobility. Specifically, he is interested in the decision-making processes that workers engage in as they determine their occupational aspirations.

Dr. Marisa Young is a Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. Her areas of focus are in work, family, stress, and health, and advanced quantitative methods. Dr. Young is an Early Career Fellow at the Work-Family Research Network.

Dr. Melissa Milkie is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on structural and cultural changes in gender, work and family life over recent decades and how work-family configurations are linked to health and well-being. Recently she was named as one of the top-cited work-family researchers in the world by the Work-Family Researchers Network.

Dr. Badawy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. His research is focused on the intersection of work and family life and the implications of these dynamics for workers’ stress and health, with a specific focus on how these processes change over time.

Dr. Cary Wu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. His research focuses on how value orientations such as social and political trust are formed, and how these values explain structural inequality based on gender and race/ethnicity.

Dr. Quan D. Mai is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His research interests focus on social inequality in the labor markets, nonstandard employment, race, and research methods. He is particularly interested in how the experience of nonstandard employment shapes various aspects of workers’ lives.

Dr. Laura Upenieks is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. Her research focuses on religion and health, aging and the life course, and quantitative methods. One interest seeks to integrate life course models of health and social network analysis.

Dr. Atsushi Narisada is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Mary’s University. His current research examines the antecedents and consequences of justice perceptions in the workplace. His recent work on this subject has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Work and Occupations, and Social Justice Research.

Dr. Alex Bierman is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the wizard of all things statistical. Dr. Bierman has an extensive background in the analysis of longitudinal surveys, has repeatedly taught classes in social statistics from the introductory to doctoral levels, and frequently serves as a resource for other members.

Dr. Deniz Yucel is a Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University in New Jersey and Co-Editor of the journal Community, Work & Family. Her research focuses on how family and work environments, the work-family interface, and flexible working arrangements affect relationship, job, and health outcomes across different unions and social contexts.

Dr. Jong Hyun Jung is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. His research examines the complex interplay between religion, stress, and mental health. His recent work focuses on how religion shapes worker well-being.

Dr. Xiaozhao Yousef Yang is an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University. His research examines how sociocultural context shapes health behaviors and health outcomes around the world. Drawing on data from China, North America, Central Asia, and beyond, his work bridges medical sociology with the comparative study of diverse populations.

Heeyoung Lee is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions of health and crime inequality.

Jiarui “Bruce” Liang is a PhD student in Sociology at Yale University. His main research interest concerns examining the role of culture in facilitating social reproduction—and conversely, social mobility—with a focus on these mechanisms in educational institutions. He uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to tackle his research questions.

Jason Park is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University. His research examines how sexual orientation, gender, and their intersections shape socioeconomic and health inequalities. Grounded in theories of social stratification and minority stress, his work spans occupational stratification and labor market inequality, identity processes and mental health, and family and demographic behaviors. Through this research, he seeks to better understand how structural forces and identity processes jointly produce and sustain inequality.