Alex Bierman

University Research Grants Committee Starter Grant, University of Calgary, 2010-2011. Aging and Health: A Cross-National Perspective. $18,000. (Alex Bierman, P.I.).

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2010-2014. Demands and Resources in Work and Family Life and their Implications for Stress and Health among Canadians. $800,000. (Co-Applicant with Scott Schieman, P.I.).

Dr. Bierman’s research uses an integration of stress process and life course perspectives to examine the intersection of religion, family, and health across the life course. His research has touched on a diverse array of topics, including parent-child relationships, discrimination, and neighborhood disorder. This research is united by an interest in using physical and mental health as a mirror, to reflect back the importance of structural arrangements for individuals’ lives. He is currently co-editing a second edition of The Handbook of Sociology of Mental Health (along with Carol Aneshensel and Jo Phelan), and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Society and Mental Health, Sociology of Religion, and Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Dr. Bierman is also part of a group of researchers (including the Department of Sociology’s Jean Wallace) who have received a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the purpose of which is to assess the implications of demands and resources in work and family life for stress and health among Canadians.

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