Pennsylvania has a split legislature, and both chambers are up for grabs in the 2026 midterms.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - What factors influence evidence use in policy? An updated systematic map

The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

Workshop Co-Leaders: Elizabeth Dorssom, Assistant Professor, Lincoln University and Sungjin Lee, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley About APSA Dissertation Workshops Since 2016, the APSA Dissertation Workshops have brought together advanced graduatestudents and faculty facilitators to provide sustained, in-depth feedback on dissertation researchin a collaborative setting. The workshop is organized around small, focused working groups that…

To ensure behavioural science effectively informs policy during future crises, countries should move beyond temporary advisory setups toward a professionalised, explicitly governed infrastructure that prioritises direct dialogue between scientists and decision-makers and maintains the institutional memory of hard-won relationships.

New solicitation excludes students in seven fields and science education

Evidence and Policy reading list

Researchers and policymakers need each other, but each group is constrained by its own conventions, vocabularies, and norms. Researchers value evidence that is reproducible, valid, and generalizable; policymakers prioritize research that is timely, actionable, and specific. The California State Policy Evidence Consortium (CalSPEC) was created to bridge this divide by connecting university research with real-world policymaking in the California state legislature.

In this symposium, authors share their reflections and experiences teaching during turbulent times. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independ...

COS Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-sour...

Where youth engagement in policymaking is often tokenistic or absent (Waite et al, 2024), this could be improved by collaborating with young people as research evidence users. In a previous post, we examined what it means for practitioners to use research well (Rickinson et al., 2024). The Quality Use of Research Evidence (QURE) Framework guides how research can effectively be applied in practice. High‑quality, relevant research needs to be thoughtfully integrated into professional practice through critical engagement and deliberate implementation. Quality use is best supported by individual skills, mindsets and relationships, as well as organisational leadership, culture and infrastructure to enable effective evidence use.

On a policy level, life has been hard lately. Certainly, in the United States, we understand that the current administrations’ policy decisions, which have been implemented quickly, harshly and wit…

On a policy level, life has been hard lately. Certainly, in the United States, we understand that the current administrations’ policy decisions, which have been implemented quickly, harshly and wit…

“If we want to have a real successful legal industry, the people who blazed the trail can not be forgotten, and people can not be getting arrested for cannabis every 90 seconds in this country, still ...

GOP support for legalization is plummeting, especially among younger Republicans.