Research on Reducing Inequality in Youth Outcomes; Research on Improving the Use of Research Evidence - LOI

Sponsor Deadline: 

Aug 4, 2020

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Aug 4, 2020

Sponsor: 

William T. Grant Foundation

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Research Grants on Reducing Inequality    http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/research-grants-reducing-inequality
 Letter of intent due August 4, 2020 at 3 pm Eastern time. The foundation seeks studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. We prioritize studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.

 Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence   http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/research-grants-improving-use-research-evidence 
 
 Letter of intent due August 4, 2020 at 3 pm Eastern time. The foundation seeks studies that identify, build, and test strategies to enhance the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. Some investigators will focus on the strategies, relationships, and other supports needed for policy and practice organizations to use research more routinely and constructively. Others may investigate structures and incentives within the research community to encourage deep engagement with decision makers. Still other researchers may examine activities that help findings inform policy ideas, shape practice responses, and improve systems.

  The foundation welcomes ideas from social scientists across a range of disciplines, fields, and methodologies. . . . welcomes investigations about research use in various systems, including justice, child welfare, mental health, and education. Research teams have drawn on existing conceptual and empirical work from political science, communication science, knowledge mobilization, implementation science, organizational psychology and other areas related to the use of research for improvement, impact, and change in research, policy, and practice institutions. Critical perspectives that inform studies’ research questions, methods, and interpretation of findings are also welcome. Broadening the theoretical perspectives used to study ways to improving the usefulness, use, and impact of research evidence may create a new frontier of important research.

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