Linda Hawkins

Linda Hawkins is the Executive Director for the Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being at the University of Guelph. Linda provides strategic direction for the Centre, and collaborates with faculty, staff and a variety of community partners in building and carrying out research and outreach activities. Currently, Linda is working on a new initiative on community engaged scholarhsip that will see the building of a new "Research Shop" for the College of Social & Applied Human Sciences.

As a researcher and advocate, Linda's work has included diverse topics on women's career paths, gender and development, special projects to promote trades and technologies, and the review of programs for girls worldwide for a large NGO. She has written numerous reports for non-research audiences, and has successfully worked with government, educators, industry and advocates. Linda's work at the Centre has included leading research on the quality of work-life in area workplaces; a scan of organizational pracitices in managing absenteeism and work-life policies in the manufacturing sector; and a stratgeic review of girls programs in the GTA.

Linda's interests focus on the interplay among gender, families and workplaces, and the very peculiar reasons why people make the decisions they do.

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