We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other to better understand and solve complex social problems.
We offer three services:
1) an interactive workshop on how to build diverse working relationships
2) a hands-on matchmaking service for social scientists and practitioners
3) an online platform for self-matchmaking
Interested in our matchmaking services and/or our relationship-building workshops? Read here for how they work.
Here's what we're learning about building successful researcher-practitioner relationships:
In April 2019 the Institute for Change Leaders, based at Ryerson University in Canada, invited us to conduct our workshop How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact as part of their training. Together we helped train members of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario in Waterloo.
In March 2019 the US Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) invited us to conduct our workshop How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact to help strengthen their work building relationships with grant awardees.
In February 2019 we were invited to lead our workshop on the behavioral science of relationship-building, How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact, as part of Rare's Fish Forever Summit in Cebu, Philippines.
In February 2019 we were invited to speak about the process of building successful academic-practitioner research collaborations at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This was part of SSRC's Anxieties of Democracy program.
In January 2019 we were invited to lead our workshop on the behavioral science of relationship-building, How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact, as part of the GI-ACE Inception Workshop in London.
In January 2019 we were invited to lead How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact, our workshop on the behavioral science of relationship-building, at the Climate Advocacy Lab's Research + Experimentation workshop in Washington DC.
In December 2018 r4i's Adam Levine presented as part of a symposium entitled "New Directions in Academic-Practitioner Research Collaborations" at the University of Barcelona (slides here!).
In December 2018 r4i's Jake Bowers and Adam Levine took part in a meeting at Georgetown University to develop best practices for academic-researcher research partnerships. The meeting was co-hosted by EGAP (Evidence in Governance and Politics) and the MIT GOV/LAB.
Founded in 2017 by ADAM SETH LEVINE, DONALD P. GREEN, and JAKE BOWERS.
