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Evidence-informed policies have significant potential to improve population health outcomes, but despite efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of timely, credible, and relevant...

One of the biggest threats to youth and family policy is growing pessimism among scholars that engaging policymakers is worth their time and effort (Bogenschneider, Corbett, & Parrott, 2019). New...

Over the past decades, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have proliferated across the United States. In one common RPP design, the research alliance (RA), a group of researchers—typically...

Introduction Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) involve long-term partnerships aimed at improving or transforming a wide-range of outcomes through collaboration and research inquiry across a...

The role of research evidence in improving policy and practice outcomes has been a topic of public debate and focus of research for some time. To date, scholarship has focused largely on two evidence...

Researchers and reformers in education and likely other arenas would do well to recognize how they are implicitly or explicitly defining “systemic” in their equity approaches and to understand some...

In recent years, research interest in knowledge brokerage has expanded across disciplines as scholars and practitioners alike seek to better understand the mechanisms that impact use of research...

The question of how to improve the use of research (URE) in policy and practice can be approached from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles. For many who study research use, attention to...

Engaging policymakers encompasses far more than crafting a catchy message: It depends three basic elements of community dissonance theory.

During the COVID pandemic, policy debates about how to address the crisis have often been portrayed as scientific knowledge in competition with political rhetoric for public attention. Yet even in...

Empirical understanding of the “how” of policymakers’ research use can inform our theoretical explanations of the “why”.

In a recent interview we conducted with a congressional aide, she remarked that she was often inundated with research when working on a new policy issue. The aide’s primary goal in seeking out...

If we hope to train practitioners to use new interventions with fidelity, it may be necessary to first explicitly differentiate between previous and new instructional practices.

The frameworks and tools of behavioral science have significant potential to overcome persistent challenges regarding the measurement, tracking, and analysis of research evidence use.

Big-data can provide a means of measuring research use that provides significant insights with a favorable balance of costs and benefits.