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Use of Research Evidence

Awarded Grants

Grant

Building Trusting Relationships to Support Evidence Use in Human Services

Can training and coaching contribute to the development of trusting relationships between agency leadership and staff and their community partners? And to what extent do those relationships improve the use of evidence in decision-making and implementation of evidence-informed initiatives in ...
Allison Metz
University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
2021 – 2023
$50,000
Grant

Youth and Undergraduate Transformation to Harness Community Change (YOUTH-C2)

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the United Way of Santa Cruz will partner to reduce inequalities for low-income, Latinx middle and high school youth and first-generation Latinx UCSC undergraduates.
Regina Langhout
University Of California, Santa Cruz
2021 – 2026
$1,000,000
Grant

A Southern California Regional RPP Network for the Comparative Study of Research Use in Anti-Racist Partnerships

How can research-practice partnerships use research in ways that forward anti-racism understanding and action within K-12 schools?
June Ahn
University Of California At Irvine
2021 – 2026
$600,000

Articles & More

Digest, Issue 07: Winter 2021-22

Strengthening Methods and Improving Collaboration: The Use of Research Evidence Methods Repository

Introducing an open, centralized resource to help strengthen methods and enable greater collaboration among researchers studying the use of research evidence in policy and practice.
Drew Gitomer
 and Kevin Crouse
Strengthening Methods and Improving Collaboration: The Use of Research Evidence Methods Repository
News
  •  Jan 13, 2022

The William T. Grant Foundation and the National Science Foundation Partner to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research

The William T. Grant Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have launched a collaborative partnership, “Increasing the Use, Usefulness and Impact of Research about Youth.” This collaboration ...
Foundation Staff
The William T. Grant Foundation and the National Science Foundation Partner to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research
Webinars

Webinar: Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use

“Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use” is the fourth webinar in a series focused on bringing critical race perspectives to research that examines how to improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice. Past sessions ...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use
Webinars

Webinar: Researching how to make science more useful and used in policy and practice

Science has the potential to improve important outcomes for youth. But if the science generated isn’t used, we are failing to achieve our goal. In this webinar, Senior Program Officer Lauren Supplee and special guest Arthur Lupia of the ...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Researching how to make science more useful and used in policy and practice
Publication

Research-Practice Partnerships for Racially Just School Communities

By bringing together university researchers with practitioners and community members, RPPs in education help to ensure that the processes and outcomes of research directly enrich educational practice and policy in ways that community members most desire.
Camille M. Wilson
Research-Practice Partnerships for Racially Just School Communities
Publication

Partnerships in Action: A New RPP Highlights the Field’s Evolution

Even to a casual observer, the research-practice partnerships “tent” has expanded considerably since the seminal 2013 paper by Coburn et al., Research-Practice Partnerships: A Strategy for Leveraging Research for Educational Improvement in School Districts.
John Easton
 and Meg Bates
Partnerships in Action: A New RPP Highlights the Field’s Evolution
Publication

Racial Equity and Research Practice Partnerships 2.0: A Critical Reflection

RPPs have the potential to forge relationships that lead to new possibilities for racial justice. However, they also run the risk of reproducing the very inequities that many claim to challenge. To avoid the second scenario, we need to confront ...
John Diamond
Racial Equity and Research Practice Partnerships 2.0: A Critical Reflection

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