In the latest NCFR member news...

NCFR Fellow Jennifer L. Hardesty, Ph.D., CFLE, and Brian G. Ogolsky, Ph.D., have received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Justice to study the effectiveness of training attorneys to identify and address intimate partner violence in divorce and custody cases. Drs. Hardesty and Ogolsky are partnering with the Battered Women’s Justice Project, to evaluate the training program. Drs. Hardesty and Ogolsky are colleagues in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Hardesty is a professor and Dr. Ogolsky is an associate professor and director of graduate studies. Read more their grant project.

Christy R. Rogers, Ph.D., has received a grant from the The National Natural Science Foundation of China to serve as co-investigator on a project over the next three years. The proposal is titled, “The role of parenting on sibling relationship quality in the two-child family: Inter-brain synchrony in parents-child-sibling interactions.” This grant is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Bin-Bin Chen, a professor at Fudan University in the Department of Psychology, in Shanghai China. Dr. Rogers is an assistant professor of human development and Family Science at Texas Tech University.

Luke T. Russell, Ph.D., CFLE, is a recipient of Illinois State University's Research Initiative Award, which recognizes new faculty members (within their first five years) who have initiated a promising research agenda early in their academic careers. Dr. Russell is an assistant professor of human development and Family Science in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and is the digital scholarship editor of NCFR's Journal of Family Theory & Review. His research investigates how individuals living in diverse family structures organize their relationships, engage in strategies that promote resilience, and maintain family-members’ health and well-being. He also studies how broader social institutions can function as supportive resources for those living in structurally diverse families.

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