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Jackie James takes senior position at Boston College

Jackie James

On July 1, Jackie James became the director of research at Boston College's Center for Work and Family (CWF) and research professor in the Lynch School of Education, also at BC. Since its founding in 1990, CWF has been a national leader in helping organizations create effective workplaces that support and develop healthy and productive employees. A broad theme that focuses the center's work is helping to support "meaningful work/meaningful lives." CWF provides a bridge linking the academic community to the world of the work/life practitioner. It is fortunate to count many of the world's most progressive companies in the work/life arena as members.

Currently, Jackie and coauthor Paul Wink (professor of psychology at Wellesley College) are developing a new volume, Charting New Life Stage: The Third Age, about the opportunities and challenges inherent in the early retirement years for new generations of retirees. She is also working with Alicia Munnell, director of the Boston College Center for Research on Retirement, to conduct a study, funded by the Sloan Foundation, examining psychological well-being and health in later life as a function of changes over time in work status.