Adam Gamoran Presents at ISHE Launch
Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation, presented his lecture, "Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice" as a part of the launch event for the Institute for Social and Health Equity on Wednesday, February 14, 2024.
About Featured Speaker Adam Gamoran
Adam Gamoran is the John D. MacArthur Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently leads the William T. Grant Foundation, guiding strategy and collaborating with the Board to fulfill the Foundation’s mission. Dr. Gamoran is leading a groundbreaking initiative to address youth inequality, complementing ongoing efforts to enhance research impact on policies affecting young lives.
Lecture: Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice
Advocates for evidence-based policy often assume that if only the research were of higher quality, and more timely, relevant, and accessible, policy makers would naturally gravitate to the research findings and bring them into their decision process.
Research supported by the William T. Grant Foundation indicates that the bridge between research and policy is more fragile than that. What does the research show about how to improve the use of research evidence? Can we point to specific, tested strategies to enhance evidence use? And how can universities support research that is used in policy and
practice?