Researchers and Funders Talk: Priorities, Research Utilization, and Collaboration

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session brings together foundation personnel, federal funders, and program officers with well-known scholar--researchers to discuss enhanced collaborations that forward agendas of both funders and researchers and lead to increased use and dissemination of research. The goal is threefold: 1) to hear directly the thoughts of foundation personnel, federal funders, and university researchers about the “power and possibilities for the public good when researchers and organizational stakeholders collaborate”; 2) to discuss how funders and scholars can enhance research and dissemination by being in closer touch with policy makers and practitioners; and 3) to learn about the kinds of research that both funders and scholars see as especially relevant to current issues.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Lois Weis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Margaret A. Eisenhart, University of Colorado - Boulder

Participants

• Elizabeth R. Albro, U.S. Department of Education

• Megan Bang, Spencer Foundation and Northwestern University

• James A. Banks, University of Washington - Seattle

• Margaret A. Eisenhart, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation

• Pamela Lynn Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

• Evan Heit, National Science Foundation

• William R. Penuel, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Lois Weis, University at Buffalo - SUNY