Marylène Gagné is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at the Future of Work Institute in the Faculty of Business and Law. The Institute promotes productive and meaningful work as essential foundations of a healthy economy and society. We focus on how people contribute to and benefit from new knowledge and practices. Our mission is to support thriving people and organisations in the digital age.

Her research examines how organisations, through their structures, cultures, rewards, tasks, and management, affect people’s motivational orientations towards their work, including volunteer work, and how quality of motivation influences performance and well-being in the workplace.

She is associate editor at Motivation and Emotion, past associate editor at the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and currently sits on several editorial boards of journals in psychology and management. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, is recipient of an American Psychological Association Dissertation Award and a Canadian Psychological Association New Researcher Award.

Marylène has previously held appointments at the Psychology Department of the University at Albany, SUNY, the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada, and at the School of Psychology and Business School, University of Western Australia.

Besides being passionate about psychology, Marylène also has interests in yoga, dance, reading, and animal welfare. She volunteers at the local RSPCA.