CODAPAR Series Webinar 1: Why Policy? Understanding the Critical Link Between Research and Policy

This 1-hour webinar illuminates for scientists the importance of research in informing policy and practice. Learn why you should care about policy and how to make your research useful to policymakers. For the accompanying toolkit, visit: www.spssi.org/CODAPARpolicyseries

Panelists include:
ROBERT CIALDINI, PhD, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing, Arizona State University
MARYBETH (BETH) SHINN, PhD, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
RUSH HOLT, PhD, American scientist and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (NJ-12) from 1999-2015

This webinar was organized by Sara Buckingham, PhD (Division 27, University of Alaska Anchorage), Nathan (Nate) Deichert, PhD (Division 8, Black Hills State University), and Raquel Rose (Division 27, New York University). Sara Buckingham, PhD will moderate the webinar.

This webinar is the first in a five-part series entitled "Fostering Policy-Relevant Research." The series is being sponsored by APA Divisions 9 (The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, or SPSSI), 8 (The Society for Personality and Social Psychology), 27 (The Society for Community Research and Action), 35 (The Society for the Psychology of Women), 44 (The Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity), and 45 (The Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race), with funding from the Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR). Our goal is to enhance psychologists' knowledge and skills in the broad domain of policy and practice implications of psychological research.