The new Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2011-2012 Early Career Scholars Program.  The WFRN, formerly the Sloan Work and Family Research Network, will be an international membership organization that seeks to advance, promote and disseminate interdisciplinary research on work and family.

The goal of this program is to develop supports for recent doctoral recipients and facilitate their teaching and research scholarship.  By offering resources and consultation, the program is designed to help promising young scholars move into tenured appointments and secure senior level positions, as well as connect them to the work-family community of scholars. All participants in the Early Career Scholars Program will have their travel funded to the conference of the Work and Family Researchers Network to be held at the University of Pennsylvania from June 14-16, 2012. The scholars will be connected with one another to facilitate cohort-team supports, such as those that enable the development of collaborative projects, peer-mentorship, and peer reviews of manuscripts in progress.  They will also receive periodic mailings of opportunities of special interest to work-family scholars who are at their early career stages and have opportunities to engage in teleconferences.

The Work and Family Researchers Network will provide 15 awards in 2011-2012, and will later recruit an additional 15 scholars to participate in 2013-2014.   To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorates in 2008 or later, and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions.   Those anticipating receipt of a doctoral degree by June 2011 may also apply.

Questions about the program can be addressed to the program director, Stephen Sweet ssweet@ithaca.edu.  The deadline for submission of applications is July 31, 2011.