Lab Overview

In the ProgressLab, we study how people’s intimate lives are affected by conditions of social inequality. These conditions might include people’s gender, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, access to resources such as education and healthcare, as well as many other conditions that affect how people live.

Under the direction of Dr. Sara McClelland, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, research in the ProgressLab often relies on critical feminist empirical methods that involve questions of how knowledge is made, the use of psychological research in applied settings, and issues such as sex education, reproductive justice, and sexual health.