Dr. Joyce Y. Lee, PhD, LCSW

(AI) Use in Social Work Research. Congratulations, everyone!

A manuscript by Joyce Y. Lee, Garrett Pace, Hunmin Cha, Smitha Rao, Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Ruopeng An, & Ramona Denby-Brinson was recently accepted to the Journal of Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) 🎉 Stay tuned for the article link to ETHICS: An Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence

Congratulations to our lab members and affiliates for their multiple upcoming presentations at Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)🎉We can't wait for SSWR 2026!

Congratulations to Hunmin Cha who will present her work on bridging fathering theories and child support research at Grand Challenges for Social Work's Early Career Scholar Research Symposium 🎉 Mark your calendars for Friday 10/3 from 1-2:30pm! Here is the Zoom link: rutgers.zoom.us/j/6742878516...

Congratulations to Eunhye Ahn, Joyce Lee, Lindsey Palmer, Rebecca Rebbe, Yadi Tejeda, & Hunmin Cha for their accepted manuscript to Child Abuse & Neglect! Stay tuned for their article, Family context and caregiver characteristics in substantiated child maltreatment: A report-level analysis🎉

to promote child welfare and family resilience among rural families in Ohio. Congratulations, everyone!

Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO)’s Fawn Gadel and Jen McClellan as key consultants. We are grateful to leverage the expertise of faculty at the College of Social Work, College of Medicine, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan School of Social Work, and PCSAO

Health and Human Development (NICHD), totaling $3,149,586 from 2025-2030. This project, “Reducing Parental Substance Use, Improving Child Health Outcomes, and Enhancing Family Resilience Among Rural Families Through Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma)”, partners with

We are proud to announce that Susan Yoon (Principal Investigator), Joyce Lee, Alicia Bunger, Christopher Browning, Gia Barboza-Salerno, Elinam Dellor, Tom Gregoire, and Kathryn Maguire-Jack (Co-Investigators) are the recipients of a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child

Congratulations to Amy Xu for being elected the 2025-26 Doctoral Student Organization Vice President and the Institute for Population Research Graduate Student Organization Secretary 🎉 Looking forward to seeing your leadership in these spaces!

Congratulations to PhD students Yujeong Chang and Amy Xu for being selected to the 2025-2026 Doctoral Student Committee of the Society for Social Work and Research🎉Looking forward to seeing your leadership grow!

Congratulations to Bart Klika, Joyce Y. Lee, Olivia Chang, Jaclyn Kirsch, and Shawna J. Lee for their accepted article Child maltreatment during COVID-19: Triangulating data across reporting systems. Look out for their upcoming publication in the journal Child Maltreatment🎉

Joyce Y. Lee, PhD has been awarded a Critical Difference research grant from The Women's Place at Ohio State🎉The grant supports research on Gender Norms Among Trump-Supporting Fathers: Implications for Mental Health, Parenting, and Family Dynamics. Congratulations!

PhD student Yujeong Chang is the 2025 recipient of the Selma and Alexander Erlen Endowment Award🎉The award recognizes a doctoral student with an outstanding record of service, academics, and scholarship. Congratulations Yujeong!

Thank you KinCarolina for hosting this free Kinship Town Hall series! Please consider attending or sending to someone who may be interested💌

April Faculty Monthly Highlight: Joyce Lee & Susan Yoon - The Ohio State University - College of Social Work April is School Library Month, and the College of Social Work would like to take this time to recognize two of its faculty members who have conducted research on the powerful potential of father-child...

Dr. Lee's and Dr. Yoon's Daddy REAds with Me (DREAM) project was featured in the OSU College of Social Work Faculty Highlight📚Link here: csw.osu.edu/blog/2025/04...

Joyce Y Lee ‪Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Social Work‬ - ‪‪Cited by 1,008‬‬ - ‪Father Involvement‬ - ‪Child Maltreatment‬ - ‪Child Welfare‬ - ‪Health Equity‬

Dr. Joyce Y. Lee's work has reached over a thousand citations🏆Congratulations! Check out her google scholar profile here: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library Objective This study demonstrates how machine learning, specifically random forest, can advance family science, particularly in studying father–child relationships. Background Fatherhood research .....

Congratulations to Garrett Pace, Joyce Lee, Kaitlin Paxton Ward, and Olivia Varney-Chang for their recent publication on exploring father–adolescent closeness through a random forest approach👏Read more in Family Relations! doi.org/10.1111/fare...

Dr. Lee has been elected as SSWR Director-At-Large‼️Thank you to everyone who cast their vote, and looking forward to contributing to SSWR to move our social work field forward!

Good morning! Today is the last day of runoff voting for Director at Large positions at the Society for Social Work & Research☑️Thank you so much for your support. Election results will be announced Friday!

Due to a revision in the Bylaws, SSWR is holding a reelection for Directors At Large today through Thursday, March 6! Please vote with your member number at vote.associationvoting.com/sswr/ and see Dr. Joyce Lee's bio and vision statement here😊Thank you for your votes thus far!

Thank you OSU College of Social Work for covering this here! csw.osu.edu/dr-joyce-lee...

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Dr. Lee is the recipient of the 2025 Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Excellence in Research Award! Congratulations Dr. Lee & coauthors Shawna Lee, Susan Yoon, Jaclyn Kirsch, Garrett Pace, & Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan🎉read more in Journal of Family Violence: link.springer.com/journal/1089...

Innovative Nutrition Policies and Programs to Reduce Low-Income Children’s Sodium Intake in the United States: Implication for Social Work Globally, high sodium intake is the leading dietary risk factor of morality. Most Americans, including children, consume too much sodium compared with the federal guidelines. Socioeconomic and raci...

Congrats to Sarah Presley, Dr. Joyce Lee, Dr. Michelle Kaiser, & Dr. Yanfang Su for their publication on innovative nutrition policies & programs to reduce low-income children’s sodium intake in the United States🎉Read the publication in Social Work and Public Health here doi.org/10.1080/1937...

Tomorrow is the deadline for voting for the SSWR 2024 Board of Directors elections‼️Don't forget to vote, and thank you for your votes thus far☑️

The 2025 SSWR voting is now available! I'd so appreciate your vote for Director-At-Large (DAL). I am deeply committed to building SSWR up and thus advance social work research that promotes a diverse, just & equitable society. Vote by 12/31 at vote.associationvoting.com/sswr/

Thank you for the nomination Justin and so much more. You inspire me and I’m grateful for your support!! :)

Thank you so much for the support, Garrett!! I so appreciate it and right back at you. Thanks for being one of the smartest and kindest persons I’ve ever known :)

The 2025 SSWR voting is now available! I'd so appreciate your vote for Director-At-Large (DAL). I am deeply committed to building SSWR up and thus advance social work research that promotes a diverse, just & equitable society. Vote by 12/31 at vote.associationvoting.com/sswr/