Kelly D. Chandler, PhD

Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Sciences

Faculty profile

Kelly applies a work-family justice lens to understand the diversity of lived experiences of adults at work, at home, and in their work-family integration. She studies how job conditions, workplace culture, and work-family policies affect the health and well-being of employees and their families. She also studies daily stress and emotional transmission in families.

Kara McElvaine, MS

Student profile

As an emerging mixed method social scientist, Kara is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of a cutting edge research team using innovative methods to understand the intersection of families, work, and well-being. Through her work with Dr. Chandler and the Family, Work, & Well-Being Lab, Kara uses social justice-aligned research to support initiatives which restructure workplaces to be more supportive of the holistic well-being of workers and their family members. She is also interested in deeply understanding connections between micro-level processes (e.g., socialization) and macro-level structural forces (e.g., policies), both of which have very real effects on human development throughout the life course.

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Madeline J. Nichols, MS

 Student profile

Madeline is a current graduate student in the Human Development and Family Sciences program at Oregon State University. Her research focuses on how adults in mid- and later-life understand, process, and regulate their emotions in different interpersonal contexts.