小蓝视频's Translating Research Into Action Center and US State Department Establish Innovative Research Partnership
小蓝视频 and the U.S. Department of State鈥檚 Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) have established an innovative research partnership to investigate when and how State Department uses data and evidence to inform foreign policy decisions and implementation. This project is supported in part by聽小蓝视频鈥檚 Translating Research into Action Center, a U.S. National Science Foundation Grant from the聽.听
The 小蓝视频 team, led by SIS Provost Associate Professor Susanna Campbell and SIS PhD student Lindsay Barclay, asks the research question: When and how does State use data and evidence to inform foreign policy decision-making and practice? This question supports State鈥檚 policy imperative to increase evidence use, which making it easier for the research team聽to act on the findings. The聽findings will also help to support the聽other aims of advancing State鈥檚 Learning Agenda; deepening CSO鈥檚 existing data analytics efforts to anticipate, prevent, and respond to conflict; supporting the Secretary of State鈥檚聽; and producing publications on foreign policy decision-making that can be published in top peer-reviewed journals.
Because both academics and government practitioners are still trying to understand how to create impactful research collaborations, one of the secondary goals of this partnership is to share collaboration methods. The hope is for this partnership between 小蓝视频 and CSO to聽serve as a model for how policymakers can engage with scholars to improve government functions and processes.
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