Faculty

Dr. Anita Blanchard 

Professor

ablanch@charlotte.edu

Education

B.S., M.S., UNC Chapel Hill

M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Dr. Blanchard studies online and Face-to-face groups. In the VICE lab, she studies how groups are perceived as groups as well as how people perceive larger entities as communities. Her students study leadership, identification, and entitativity and the relationship among them.

Dr. Brent Reed

Assistant Professor

brentreed@charlotte.edu

Education

B.S., University of Tennessee

Pharm.D., University of Tennessee

M.S., University of Baltimore

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dr. Reed’s research explores how individuals psychologically connect to their work and how those connections shape their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. He is particularly interested in the unintended consequences of seemingly positive phenomena and how work spills over into nonwork life. Much of his research explores the temporal dynamics of workplace experiences using methods such as experience sampling and multilevel modeling.

Dr. Alyssa McGonagle

Professor

amcgonag@charlotte.edu

Education

B.A., College of the Holy Cross

M.A., University of New Haven and University of Connecticut

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Dr. Alyssa McGonagle is a Professor of Psychological and Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. McGonagle’s research focuses on worker health, safety, inclusion, and well-being, with a particular focus on workers with chronic health conditions and disabilities

Dr. Meghan Davenport

Assistant Professor

Education

B.A., Psychology, Rice University

M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Rice University

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Rice University

Meghan’s research focuses on workplace aging- specifically, how lifespan development influences motivation at work.  One of her research streams focuses broadly on aging at work, asking the question: How do people change across the lifespan, and how do those changes impact them at work?  Another research stream focuses more specifically on the intersection of aging with workplace learning and job search.  Meghan is interested in how people stay motivated through the often effortful, stressful, and potentially identity-threatening processes of learning and job searching

Dr. Ryan Grant

Assistant Professor

Education

B.A., Psychology, North Central College

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia

Ryan’s main area of research focuses on understanding the interface between employees’ work and nonwork lives. In this area, he has a particular focus on how employees recover from work stress and achieve balance between work and nonwork to promote health and well-being. He is also interested in how healthy and balanced lives can be promoted for employees using organizational strategies like remote work and flexible working arrangements