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This volume shows researchers how to bring their scholarship to a broader audience. Contributors explain how to talk to the media, testify as an expert witness, approach governmental organizations, work with schools and students, and influence public policy.
List of contents
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Becoming an Engaged Scholar: Getting Started
Chapter 2: The Media: Helping Journalists Use and Interpret Your Research
Chapter 3: The Public: Engaging a Nonscholarly Audience
Chapter 4: Public Policy: How Psychologists Can Influence Lawmakers
Chapter 5: Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights
Chapter 6: The Courts: How to Translate Research for Legal Cases
Chapter 7: Law Enforcement: Finding Common Purpose
Chapter 8: Education: Building Trusted Partnerships With Schools
Chapter 9: Health Professionals: Conducting Research With Physicians
Chapter 10: Community-Based Organizations: Enhancing Collaboration and Dissemination of Research
Chapter 11: Teaching and Mentoring: How to Involve Students in Engaged Scholarship
Chapter 12: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Should We Be? Linking Engagement to Scholarship
Index
About the Editor
About the author
Linda R. Tropp, PhD, is a professor of social psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, from which she received the Distinguished Academic Outreach Award for excellence in the application of scientific knowledge to advance the public good. A Fellow of APA and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Tropp has received scholarly awards from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the International Society of Political Psychology. She has been cited in numerous news outlets (including
New York Times,
Boston Globe,
Wall Street Journal,
New Republic,
O Magazine,
U.S. News and World Report,
Salon, and
Huffington Post, among others), invited to author blogs for
Psychology Today and APA, and interviewed on radio and television (including
PBS News Hour, NPR's
Talk of the Nation, and New England Public Radio). She has presented social science research at several congressional briefings and has worked with national organizations to translate research evidence for U.S. Supreme Court cases relevant to racial integration, discrimination, and immigration. She regularly works on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations and promote racial justice, and with international organizations to evaluate programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict. Tropp is coeditor of
Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011), coauthor of
When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011), and editor of
The Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012).
Summary
Gathers experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. With pointers on talking to the media, testifying as an expert witness, working with schools, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital link between scholarship and social engagement.
