Our graduate students take great pride in sharing their work with the academic community!
In the 2025-2026 academic year, UConn HDFS students disseminated their research at virtual and in-person conferences. Our students presented over 65 research presentations around the nation, from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, and from Minneapolis to New Orleans, and even around the globe, including Spain, Scotland, and South Korea. They also have around 190 publications in books and journals in a variety of disciplines, including adolescent development, family sciences, cultural psychology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies.
See CURRENT & PAST PRESENTATIONS !
Current graduate students have presented their work at regional, national, and international conferences, including:
- American Educational Research Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Public Health Association
- Gerontological Society of America
- International Association for Relationship Research
- National Council on Family Relations
- Society for Prevention Research
- Society for Research in Child Development
- Society for Research on Adolescence
- Society of Behavioral Medicine
See CURRENT & PAST PUBLICATIONS !
Current graduate students have published in many top peer-reviewed journals, including:
- AIDS Care
- Behavioral Medicine
- Health Psychology
- Journal of Cancer Survivorship
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Journal of Research on Adolescence
- Journal of Sex Research
- Mindfulness
- Obesity
- Prevention Science
- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
HDFS Graduate Program Alumni: Where are they now?
Research universities: HDFS alumni work as tenure-line and research faculty at universities and colleges around the United States and the world, including Yale, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Bowling Green State, California State, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Minnesota, UConn, Rochester, and University of the Andes.
Teaching-oriented universities: our alumni work as tenure-line faculty at many liberal arts and teaching-oriented universities, such as Smith, Wheelock, Lewis & Clark, SUNY Oswego, and Central CT State.
Research institutes: HDFS graduate alumni work at research institutes across the United States, including National Cancer Institute, James Bell Associates, and the Wilder Foundation.
What else can you do? No two careers are the same! Alumni have used their training and skills for a range of careers as consultants, as researchers at universities and hospitals, forming their own companies, and even doing research at Lego Foundation.