Research & Faculty
Henly’s scholarship advances understanding of the economic and caregiving strategies of low-income families, with particular attention to the prevalence and consequences of volatile and unpredictable work schedules, the impact of parental work schedules on children's care arrangements, and how well child care subsidies and other public benefits serve low-income families.
Lambert’s research focuses on employer practices and how they shape the quality of hourly jobs, the lives of low-paid workers, and inequality in society. Her research includes comparative organizational case-studies and randomized workplace experiments as well as analyses of national data on the prevalence of precarious scheduling practices in today’s US labor market.
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Co-authors: Nicole P. Marwell, PhD, Professor, and Jennifer E. Mosley, PhD, Professor;
In Mismeasuring Impact: Why Randomized Controlled Trials Can’t Solve the Problems of the Nonprofit Sector, Marwell and Mosley reveal why randomized controlled trials (RCTs), often called the “gold standard” for social program evaluation, are poorly suited to the nonprofit sector. Marwell and Mosley show how the challenges of implementing RCTs in nonprofits undermine their core strengths of innovation and responsiveness. The book provides practical alternatives for utilizing evaluation to enhance nonprofit performance.
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Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China
Zhiying Ma, PhD, Assistant Professor
In Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China, Zhiying Ma examines how families, psychiatric institutions, and state policies intersect in the governance of serious mental illness. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ma introduces the concept of “biopolitical paternalism” to show how responsibility for care is shifted onto families, raising profound ethical tensions and revealing health disparities within China’s mental health system.
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The first scholarly journal in the field of social work, SSR provides multidisciplinary analyses of current policies and past practices from social welfare scholars and practitioners, as well as from experts in other fields.