In 2023-2024, faculty worked on research grants that totaled nearly $50 million. The work they produce impacts families, policy makers, and practitioners around the world and in Wisconsin. Our faculty are nationally-recognized as some of the most impactful, cutting-edge scholars in the field.
More details are listed in faculty bios and you can learn about the research from our PhD students.
The following projects are just a sample of current faculty research.
Implications of Parental Incarceration for Child Health and Wellbeing
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Inequalities in Financial Coping During the COVID-19 Crisis: New Insights from Linked Credit Report, Alternative Financial Service, and State Administrative Data
Russell Sage Foundation
Improving Data Collection of Debt and Financial Strain to Assess Health Impacts of Economic Insecurity
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Child Support Policy Research
Research agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Child and Families
Estimating the Impact of SNAP, WIC, and UI in the Primary Prevention of Multiple Forms of Family Violence: A Causal and Computational Approach
Center for Disease control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services
Research and Development Services
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Supporting Research on Child Welfare Practice
Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
Improving Mortality Risk Estimation for Autistic Older Adults using Machine Learning
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Leveraging Claims Data to Compare Disparities in Health Outcomes for Autistic People and People With Down Syndrome
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
The Impact of Wisconsin’s Long-Term Services and Supports Program Implementation on Outcomes for Autistic Adults
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Toward Healthy Aging in Adults with Autism: A Longitudinal Clinical and Multimodal Brain Imaging Study
National Institute of Mental Health
A Task-Sharing Approach to Supporting Parents Reentering the Community after Incarceration
Institute of Translational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Washington State Department of Corrections Parenting Sentencing Alternative Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Community-engaged Adaptation of a Well-being Intervention to Support Successful Reentry Following Incarceration
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Wisconsin Partnership Program
Building Bonds with Books during Parental Incarceration: Expansion of the Evaluation of the Making Reading Memories Program
UW-Madison Division of Extension & School of Human Ecology
Incarceration, Child Support, and Family Relationships
Child Support Policy Research Agreement, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Building Reading and Relationships with Justice-Involved Families
Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison Division of Extension, and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Supporting Families and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
Impact Evaluation of The Fathers and Families Support Center
Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, University of Notre Dame
Innovative Approaches to Understanding How, Why, and Under What Conditions University Students Trade Sexual Contact
National Institutes of Health: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Program
Toward a Methodologically Rigorous Understanding of In-Person & Virtual Sex Trading for Compensation
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Preventing Sexual and Relationship Violence among LGBTQ+ College and University Students: Adapting the Bringing in the Bystander® Prevention Program
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Stakeholder Study to Understand and Improve Access to Post-Sexual Assault Care for Survivors of Color, LGBTQ+ Survivors, and/or Survivors Living in Poverty
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
A Latent Mixture Approach to Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences among Filial Caregivers
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison
Baby’s First Years
National Institutes of Health
Tulsa Prekindergarten Evalatuaion
Several Projects on Wisconsin Child Care
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Evaluation of Madison’s Guaranteed Income Project
Madison Forward Fund
Infant Mental Health Intervention for Childcare
Wisconsin Partnership Program
Childcare Shared Services Network
Wisconsin Partnership Program
Unconditional Cash Income and Involvement with Child Protective Services: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit
National Institutes of Health
Cash Payments and Infant Health: A Natural Experiment
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Noncustodial Parents’ Child Support and Custodial Parents’ Income Packages: Comparing the Great Recession and COVID-19 Recession Eras
Child Support Policy Research Agreement, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Mothers’ Work Schedules, Time with Children, and Child Care Arrangements
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison
Understanding Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules: Implications for Child Health and Development
Population Dynamics Scientist Development Award Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Understanding Declines in Regulated Child Care Supply and Subsidy Use in Wisconsin
The Administration for Children and Families/UW Department of Health and Human Services
Adolescent Responses to Varying Environments in Virtual Reality Simulations
National Institutes of Health
Measuring the Pulse of Wisconsin: A Feasibility Study to Develop an Online Research Panel of Wisconsinites
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison, with Funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Measuring the Pulse of Wisconsin: A Feasibility Study to Develop an Online Research Panel of Wisconsinites
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison
Adolescent Responses to Varying Environments in Virtual Reality Simulations
National Institutes of Health
Collaborating to Provide a Gateway to Services and Supports for Noncustodial Fathers
Research agreement with Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Noncustodial Parents’ Child Support and Custodial Parents’ Income Packages: Comparing the Great Recession and COVID-19 Recession Eras
State of Wisconsin, Child Support Policy Research Agreement
Understanding Low Take-up in Social Services
Lab for Economic Opportunities, University of Notre Dame
Equitable Access to Unemployment Compensation Data Tools
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development