Jennifer Swanberg is an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Social Work and the founder and executive director of the Institute for Workplace Innovation.
Her research focuses primarily on the organization of work, low-wage jobs, and antecedents of work-family conflict among underrepresented working populations.
Swanberg has joint appointments in the Colleges of Business and Economics, Medicine and Public Health at UK. She is a faculty affiliate with the UK Center on Poverty Research and the Center for the Advancement of Women's Health and is also a Research Fellow of the Boston College Work & Family Roundtable.
Swanberg received her bachelor's degree from the University of New Hampshire, her master's and doctorate from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.