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About the Future of Work Fellowship Program

The ILR Future of Work fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with our world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects. Fellowships are awarded to faculty and units at ILR to allow them to hire the very best early-career researchers in their fields. Fellowships will support three or four postdoctoral researchers, as well as one doctoral student, each year for five years.

This fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. Fellows and their faculty sponsors alike are enabled to address challenging research questions and break out of any stereotypes or default thinking around the future of work.

The Fellows benefit directly from engagement and mentoring from the ILR faculty members they work with, establishing a track record and path to future career success.

Faculty benefit from the work of the Fellows in advancing their research projects and opening up new opportunities and innovations through collaborations with these early career academics.

This is a five-year program, which will typically award 3 to 4 fellowships annually.

Innovative policy on Immigrant Workers’ Rights

Fighting exploitation

Professor Shannon Gleason and Professor Kate Griffith will work with Dr. Youbin Kang to examine the efficacy of innovative regulatory efforts to disentangle worker rights from restrictive immigration policy.

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Climate Change and the Future of work

Labor and the environment

The future of work is hot. Literally. Unpredictable seasons, droughts, floods, warming temperatures, rising seas, and a host of other climatic factors are changing what work is, what it means, and what it does to the body. Besky will collabroate with Dr. Hadia Akhtar Khan to form the Agrarian Studio Lab.

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Future of Work Fellows

Behavioral Researcher Joins ExPO Lab

Usman Liaquat has joined ILR's Experimental Psychology and Organizations (ExPO) Lab as a Future of Work fellow.
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Behavioral Researcher Joins ExPO Lab

Dual Tracks to the Top: Men Often Linked With Power, Women with Status

Cornell Chronicle
Men are associated with control over people and resources, and women are aligned with respect and admiration, according to new Cornell research by Charlotte Townsend.
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Dual Tracks to the Top: Men Often Linked With Power, Women with Status

Kang Joins Future of Work Initiative

Youbin Kang is researching the impact of immigration status on workplace precarity.
Youbin Kang
Kang Joins Future of Work Initiative

Akhtar Khan Helping Grow Agrarian Studio

Postdoctoral associate and Future of Work fellow Hadia Akhtar Khan is developing programming and conferences.
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Akhtar Khan Helping Grow Agrarian Studio

Cao Working with Keller, Kehoe

Doctoral student Joanne Cao recently described her work on a Future of Work human resources project.
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Cao Working with Keller, Kehoe

Future of Work Research

Related Work from Across the School

Matched Data from Hires and Managers Examined

A Future of Work project is assessing what unfolds for both employees – and their hiring managers – during their first months on the job.
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Matched Data from Hires and Managers Examined

Role of Labor Brokers in China Researched

Brokers play an important role in regulating migrant workers in China, according to a paper by Chuling Huang, Ph.D. ’24, that is published in “International Migration Review.”
Chuling Huang, at left, spent time with Chinese workers harvesting sugarcane as part of his research.
Role of Labor Brokers in China Researched

Zooming for the Socially Anxious: Research Offers Insights

What do the people in the video conference think of me? A researcher in ILR’s ExPO Lab and her collaborators have some answers.
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Zooming for the Socially Anxious: Research Offers Insights

Teaching the Ethics of Data Science Through Immersive Video

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As society ponders the dangers and unknowns of AI, Liz Karns is giving statistics students a first-hand look at the potential implications for users of large-scale predictive models, in hopes of increasing their empathy and awareness of unintended consequences.
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Teaching the Ethics of Data Science Through Immersive Video

Opportunities to Expand

The Future of Work Fellowship program has been made possible through a generous philanthropic gift. Funding research opportunities that balance focused research and potentially broad impact is a rare opportunity for many researchers – especially when a program like this can help underpin early careers while advancing the research of resident faculty.

If you would like to learn about supporting the Future of Work Fellowship program, please contact Jennifer Dean, ILR Alumni Affairs & Development.

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For any inquiries, contact the Dean's Office

ILR Dean’s Office

309 Ives Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

ilrdeansoffice@cornell.edu

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