IOA Staff
Jennifer Craft Morgan, PhD
Associate Director for Research and Research Scientist
Jennifer Craft Morgan is Associate Director for Research at the Institute on Aging. She is currently co-principal investigator, with Thomas R. Konrad, PhD for the Evaluation of the Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care Program. Jobs to Careers is a national initiative of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with the Hitachi Foundation. Jobs to Careers seeks to establish systems that train, develop, reward, and advance current frontline health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and ensure the quality of services provided to patients and communities. She previously served as a co-investigator on the now-complete Better Jobs, Better Care Applied Research project (STEP UP NOW) and currently serves as a the Associate Director for the on-going intervention program WIN A STEP UP (Workforce Improvement for Nursing Assistants: Supporting Training, Education and Payment for Upgrading Performance). Dr. Morgan is also involved in other workforce and evaluation studies in the Institute including the Workforce Aging in the New Economy (WANE) project, the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) project and the Lifelong Access Libraries Evaluation Project. She received her Ph.D. (Just a Job? A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Situation of Direct Care Workers in Long Term Care) in the Summer of 2005 from the Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill where she also received her M.A. Dr. Morgan's substantive interests include medical sociology, gender stratification, evaluation research, health care workforce, and the sociological study of work and careers over the life course.
Email: craft@mail.schsr.unc.edu
