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April 16, 2026 | 12–1 p.m.

Applied Research Symposium

Join our next symposium with guest speaker Kristen Harknett live at the Davis campus.

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In collaboration with the UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, we are hosting a symposium with guest speaker Kristen Harknett, a professor of sociology from UC Berkeley. We encourage you attend live at the Davis campus or via webinar. 

Date: April 16, 2026 
Time: 12–1 p.m.
Location: 

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Building (250 N. Quad, Andrews Conference Room 2203, Davis, CA 95616)
  • Via webinar

Register to attend the symposium

Questions? Please email wdaehler@health.ucdavis.edu.

Speaker
  • Kristen Harknett

    Kristen Harknett, Ph.D.

    Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

    Kristen Harknett is a professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Berkeley Population Center. Harknett co-directs The Shift Project, a large-scale survey and research study of low-wage workers in the service sector, which maps the connections between job quality and worker health and well-being. Her early research demonstrated the importance of labor market conditions and public policies in shaping childbearing decisions and relationship formation and stability. Her recent research includes examinations of routine work-schedule instability, access to paid sick leave, socioeconomic inequalities in working conditions, and automation and surveillance in workplaces. She has provided invited testimony to inform federal, state, and local policy-making around fair workweek regulations, including the Federal Schedules That Work Act, and legislation in California, Washington State, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other localities.