Brad Wilcox

About

Brad Wilcox is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he holds the titles of Melville Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation University Professor and Director of the National Marriage Project. He is also a Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Wilcox's research focuses on marriage, fatherhood, and the impact of strong and stable families on men, women, and children. He is the author of the upcoming book 'Get Married: Why Americans Should Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization' (Harper Collins, 2024). Wilcox has authored and coauthored six books and has published in both scientific journals and popular outlets, including The American Sociological Review, The Journal of Marriage and Family, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and National Review. His work often explores themes related to marriage, religion, gender, and family life, and he consults regularly with companies on fertility and marriage trends in the United States. Wilcox earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University, was a Jefferson Scholar as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, and held research fellowships at Princeton, Yale, and the Brookings Institution.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mechanical engineering
• Structural engineering
• Simulation
• Engineering
• Aerospace engineering
• Marine engineering

Selected publications

• Connecting Research and Practice

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2013-10-01 · 16 citations

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• The Preparation for Life Curriculum

  2018-10-03 · 3 citations

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  Originally published in 1984. Many schools are faced with the problem of what to teach the large numbers of below average pupils who are never likely to pass any GCE or CSE examination. These pupils are often troublesome, bored and eager to get out of school into the real world of work. At this time, many schools were planning a new curriculum for these pupils - taking account of limited abilities and concentrating on teaching skills and knowledge which will be useful when they have left school.…

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• Performance Indicators: Flourish or Perish?

  2017-09-29 · 1 citations

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• Preparation for Life: Curriculum Issues

  2025-06-09

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  One of the recurring themes of the educational debate of the last few years has been the insistence that a fundamental aim of schools, and secondary schools in particular, is the preparation of their pupils for all aspects of adult life. 1 A major preoccupation has been with ways of adapting the last two years of compulsory education so as to facilitate the transition to working life of those pupils who leave school at the earliest opportunity — especially those with poor academic attainments an…

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• Careers Education: Some Current Issues

  2018-10-03

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Frequent coauthors

• Alayna Schreier

  Yale University

  12 shared

• David J. Hansen

  12 shared

• Mary Fran Flood

  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  11 shared

• Grace S. Hubel

  College of Charleston

  11 shared

• Helen Raikes

  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  11 shared

• Julia Torquati

  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  10 shared

• Carolyn Pope Edwards

  Drexel University

  10 shared

• Kathy R. Thornburg

  Applied Engineering Management (United States)

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• Melville Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation University…
• Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies
• nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institu…

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