McGuinn Hall 106K
Telephone: 617-552-2860
Email: jacquelyn.james@bc.edu
Social policy for older adults, the meaning and experience of work, gender roles and stereotypes, adult development, perceptions of older workers and emerging retirement issues
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Jacquelyn B. James, PhD is the founding director of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work and past co-director of the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. Currently, she is serving as senior advisor to the Network and member of the Steering Committee. She was the principal investigator for "Solidifying the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work as a Living Legacy" funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 2014-2022. Now retired, her research has focused on the meaning and experience of work, gender roles and stereotypes, adult development, and most recently, perceptions of older workers and emerging retirement issues. She and her colleagues have published numerous articles, opinion pieces, and five edited books. Over the last year, she has participated in a committee sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine (and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) to produce a consensus report, Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages, due out this spring. Dr. James is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. She is also past president of the Society for the Study of Human Development and serves on the editorial board of听Work, Aging & Retirement.听 She can be reached at jamesjc@bc.edu.
James, J., Morrow-Howell, N., Gonzales, E., Costa, C., & Riddle-Wilder, A. (in press). Beyond the livelong workday: Is there a new face of retirement? In (S.Czaja, J. James, J. Sharit, & J. Grosch (Eds).听Current and emerging trends in aging & work. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Morelock, J.C., McNamara, T., & James, J.B. (2017). Workability among older adults: The role of a Time & Place Management intervention.听Journal of Applied Gerontology, 36(1) doi: 10.1177/0733464815624149 journals.sagepub.com/home/jag.
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., McNamara, T., James, J.B., Halvorsen, C. (2017). Innovative pathways to meaningful work: Older adults as volunteers and entrepreneurs. E. Parry and J. McCarthy (Eds.).听Handbook on Age Diversity and Work, pp. 195-224 Palgrave McMillan. DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-46781-2_9
Sweet, S., Pitt-Catsouphes, M, & James, J.B. (2017). Manager Attitudes Concerning Flexible Work Arrangements: Fixed or Changeable?听Community, Work & Family听(1) doi:10.1080/13668803/13668803.2016.1271311
James, J.B., Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (2016). Introduction to the special issue: Change in the meaning and experience of work in later life.听Work, Aging and Retirement, (00) 1-5 doi:10.1093/workar/waw020
James, J.B., Matz-Costa, C., & Smyer, M. (2016). Retirement security: It鈥檚 not just about the money.听American Psychologist, 7(4) 334-344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0040220.
Matz-Costa, C., Carr, D., McNamara, T., & James, J.B. (2016) Physical, cognitive, social, and emotional mediators of activity involvement and health in later life.听Research on Aging, 1-25. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0164027515606182
Sweet, S., Pitt-Catsouphes, M., & James, J.B. (2016). Successes in changing flexible work arrangement use: Managers and work unit variation in a financial services organization.听Work & Occupations, 43, 75-109. doi:10.1177/0730888415595094
Cahill, K.E., James, J.B., Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (2015). The impact of a randomly-assigned Time & Place Management initiative on work and retirement expectations.听Work, Aging & Retirement.
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., James, J.B., Cahill, K., & McNamara, T. (2015). Relationships between managers who are innovators and early adopters of flexible work options and team performance. Journal of Change Management, 167-187.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 鈥淏uilding a Multi-Disciplinary Research Network on the Study of Aging & Work (principal investigator, 2015-2018)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 鈥淧lanning Grant to Assess the Viability of a Multi-Disciplinary Research Network (principal investigator, 2014-2015)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to study, 鈥淎ssessing the Business Impact of Time & Place Management: What鈥檚 age got to do with it? (with Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes)
Boston College, Institute on Aging Grant to study 鈥淎dvancing the Measurement of Engagement in Later Life鈥
Institute for Inter-cultural Studies Grant to study Engaged as We Age: Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities involved in Changing the Culture of Aging.
Retirement Research Foundation Grant, to sponsor an awards program for the Society for the Study of Human Development (2007).
Ford Foundation Grant (co-PI, with Jennifer Swanberg, PI, University of Kentucky) to study 鈥淩esponsive Cultures for Hourly Workers鈥 (2005).
Sloan Foundation Grant (with Jennifer Swanberg, Co-PI) to study 鈥淲orkplace Culture and Flexible Work Arrangements,鈥 one of nine studies funded as a part of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work: Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, awarded to Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Mick Smyer (2005).
Sloan Officer鈥檚 Grant to study the impact of work in later life on the psychological health and well being of older workers (2004).
Retirement Research Foundation Grant, to sponsor meeting to develop an edited volume, Charting a New Life Stage: The Third Age (Summer 2003).