We connect research and practice by building relationships between researchers and practitioners.
Our hands-on matchmaking leads to high-impact conversations and collaborations that produce new discoveries, solve tricky problems, build capacity, and improve our lives.
research4impact members connect with each other on their own via our interactive online platform. We also offer hands-on personalized matchmaking services. Read here for how it works, and what we've learned about building successful researcher-practitioner relationships.
At the Change.org Foundation we help people affected by issues in Asia and Latin America to create movements from their petitions. Now we want to understand their impact even further by studying how these campaigns increase the salience of issues in the broader community. A key question for us was how to measure saliency. In two short calls I got an overview of the research on this and was able to come up with several great ideas.
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.
In October 2018 r4i's Adam Levine presented our matchmaking methodology and what we've learned so far about how to build successful researcher-practitioner relationships (slides here!).
In April 2018 r4i's Adam Levine presented at Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center in Washington DC.
In March 2018, r4i's Adam Levine conducted an Impact Workshop at the University of Hong Kong.
Check out this piece in the Winter 2018 Stanford Social Innovation Review about academic-practitioner collaborations!
In October 2017 r4i's Adam Levine took part in the Behavioural Insights in Environment and Development conference in Stockholm, Sweden, co-hosted by RARE and the Stockholm Environment Institute.
In September 2017 r4i's Tiffany Davenport visited USAID in Washington DC to take part in the Evidence Resource Hub as part of Global Innovation Week.
In September 2017 we hosted an information session about r4i at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Here are the details for APSA attendees:
Hilton Union Square
Nob Hill 10
Saturday, September 2
6:30-7:30pm
Founded in 2017 by ADAM SETH LEVINE, DONALD P. GREEN, and JAKE BOWERS.