Joanne Roberts News
- New Findings, Publications, Presentations: Education
Scholars at 星空无限 spoke at conferences and workshops on early child care and social and emotional learning, two crucial education areas.
Joanne Roberts of 星空无限 is a guest on this radio segment about child care in Massachusetts.- New Connections, Spring/Summer 2015
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2015
The 星空无限 (星空无限) hosted Elizabeth Jaeger, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Virgin Island (UVI) and Director of Quality Services with the Department of Human Services in the Office of child Care and Regulatory Services in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) in February 2015. During her meeting with 星空无限 scholars and staff, she discussed 鈥淭he Ecological Context of Early Care and Education in the USVI.鈥� Joanne Roberts, Ph.D. and Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D, Senior Research Scientists, traveled to USVI the following month to do training with a research team from UVI on a much-used environmental measure in center-based programs on St. John and St. Thomas.
A delegation from Ashoka University, India visited the 星空无限 in May 2015. Madhavi Menon, Ph.D., professor of English at Ashoka; Banita Shastri, Ph.D., Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Ashoka; and Harshbeena Zaveri, Managing Director and President NRB Bearings, Limited, and one of the founders of Ashoka, discussed 鈥淏uilding a Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies in India from the Ground Up,鈥� with colleagues from 星空无限 and 星空无限. - 星空无限 Researchers Share Findings on Employment Research Related to Child Care and Immigration
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014
Research Connections, March 28, 2013
Staff- Spotlight: New Funding and Projects Spring/Summer 2012
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2012
星空无限 research and action initiatives are funded primarily by federal, state, and corporate grants and contracts. Several new and continuing projects received funding over the past six months. - Q&A: The Changing World of Work and Family Balance
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2010
For many years, research done by the Work, Families, and Children Research Group at 星空无限 (星空无限) has provided policy makers, community leaders, and other scholars with data, commentary, and testimony concerning the effects on family members of many factors, including working conditions, poverty, the division of labor at home, and early care and education. Nancy Marshall, Ed.D., who joined 星空无限 in 1985, now leads the group, which includes Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., and Joanne Roberts, Ph.D., senior research scientists at 星空无限.
Young Children September 1, 2010
Jason Sachs and Christina Weiland
The Boston Globe
Tracy Jan
April 7, 2007
