Penn Awarded $990,000 Sloan Foundation Grant for Next-Generation Work/Family Research Network

"The Work and Family Researchers Network, a social and virtual connector for interdisciplinary work-family researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $990,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation....An innovative open access Web platform will be built with similar benefits to the current Network but at significantly lower costs. This is a natural evolution of the Network’s existing model of staff-produced content to a decentralized, user-based model of community resource generation and dissemination. Capitalizing on the latest technological advancements, the new Web site will include an open-access repository of academic work-family literature, including journal articles, reports and working papers; [and] a “news tagging” system for updates in the field....The synergy between the integrated open-access and membership components of the Work and Family Researchers Network will offer an exciting new organizational model for 21st-century work-family research and scholarship...."