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About the Future of Work Fellowship Program

The ILR Future of Work fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with our world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects. Fellowships are awarded to faculty and units at ILR to allow them to hire the very best early-career researchers in their fields. Fellowships will support three or four postdoctoral researchers, as well as one doctoral student, each year for five years.

This fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. Fellows and their faculty sponsors alike are enabled to address challenging research questions and break out of any stereotypes or default thinking around the future of work.

The Fellows benefit directly from engagement and mentoring from the ILR faculty members they work with, establishing a track record and path to future career success.

Faculty benefit from the work of the Fellows in advancing their research projects and opening up new opportunities and innovations through collaborations with these early career academics.

This is a five-year program, which will typically award 3 to 4 fellowships annually.

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Future of Work Research

Future of Work Fellow Studies Job Search Platforms, Job Seekers

Bart de Koning is part of the ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute.
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Future of Work Fellow Studies Job Search Platforms, Job Seekers

Future of Work Fellow Studies Self-Expression

Marie-Catherine Mignault is part of ILR’s Experimental Psychology and Organizations Lab. ExPo Lab.
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Future of Work Fellow Studies Self-Expression

The Future of Work

The ILR School exists to further our understanding of the world of work, labor and employment. We use research methods from multiple disciplines to address challenging questions that have impact on employment relations, human resources, labor, business, workers, economics, law and policy, organizational behavior, and many other aspects of working life.

The Future of Work fellowship program gives us opportunities to support innovative researchers across disciplines and fields. This program allows us to enhance the research activities of our faculty and offer academic hospitality to promising early-career researchers here at Cornell.

Future of Work Research

Related Work from Across the School

Zooming for the Socially Anxious: Research Offers Insights

What do the people in the video conference think of me? A researcher in ILR’s ExPO Lab and her collaborators have some answers.
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Zooming for the Socially Anxious: Research Offers Insights

Work From Home Success Linked to Work/Life Boundaries

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The benefits of working from home are greater for those who work solely during standard business hours, according to new ILR research.
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Work From Home Success Linked to Work/Life Boundaries

Creating a Creativity Framework

A new paper by Assistant Professor Brian Lucas lays out a framework for how workers undertake the creative process.
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Creating a Creativity Framework

Baseball Reveals That Specialists Excel After Leaving Comfort Zones

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Venturing out of one’s comfort zone to perform a task – and then performing poorly in that task, such as a baseball pitcher trying to hit – can lead to better performance when returning to one’s specialty, new research by Assistant Professor Brittany Bond suggests.
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Baseball Reveals That Specialists Excel After Leaving Comfort Zones

Warm-Up Time Corrects Creativity Power Imbalance

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“Low-power” individuals can show more innovation when given the chance to “warm-up” to a creative task, according to research co-authored by an ILR faculty member who is an organizational behavior expert.
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Warm-Up Time Corrects Creativity Power Imbalance

The Limits of the Platform Economy

Research Professor Ian Greer, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. 05, shows why some industries – specifically live music – do not become part of the platform economy.
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The Limits of the Platform Economy

Opportunities to Expand

The Future of Work Fellowship program has been made possible through a generous philanthropic gift. Funding research opportunities that balance focused research and potentially broad impact is a rare opportunity for many researchers – especially when a program like this can help underpin early careers while advancing the research of resident faculty.

If you would like to learn about supporting the Future of Work Fellowship program, please contact Jennifer Dean, ILR Alumni Affairs & Development.

Contact us

For any inquiries, contact the Dean's Office

ILR Dean’s Office

309 Ives Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

ilrdeansoffice@cornell.edu

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