Research Interests: Work and organizations; job quality; well-being; economic mobility; social welfare policy; disasters; mixed methods

Tyler Woods is PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Tyler was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He earned his BA in Sociology with a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities from Rice University, where he graduated magna cum laude with Distinction in Research and Creative Works and received the Weber-Durkheim Award for Excellence in Sociology. Prior to Harvard, Tyler worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute’s Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population in Washington, DC. While at Urban, he conducted research for federal and foundation funders on the social and economic well-being of low-income working families.

Broadly, his research interests include work, organizations, job quality, well-being, and disasters. He is a mixed-methods scholar, and his dissertation investigates how workplace, organizational, and policy contexts shape the well-being of service sector workers. He is a graduate student researcher on the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project (with Prof. Mary C. Waters) and The Shift Project at the Harvard Kennedy School (with Prof. Daniel Schneider), and he is a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. His work has been supported by the Stone Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Division of Social Sciences Fund, and has appeared in journals such as Work and Occupations, Population and Environment, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and SSM-Mental Health.

Previous Degrees:
BA in Sociology with a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities, Rice University, 2015