Professor Phyllis Moen
Phyllis Moen is a life course scholar interested in the unequal health, well-being, and social inclusion effects of the mismatch between 20th century timetables, clocks and calendars shaping work, careers, retirement, and the gendered life course on the one hand, and rapidly changing 21st century technologies, risks and realities, on the other. She publishes widely in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, and has received multiple life-time achievement awards. Professor Moen has written, edited, or coauthored ten books. Her two most recent (award-winning) books are: Encore Adulthood; Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose, and Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It (with Erin Kelly). She is currently drawing on natural experiment and randomized feild experiment designs to capture inequalities in both the harmful and salutary stress, health, behavioural, and family impacts of changing organizational policies around working times and places, including flexible work, remote work, and the four-day workweek. Dr Moen holds the McKnight Presidential Chair and is a Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota. She is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University, as well as fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Gerontological Society of America, and the National Council of Family Relations.