coe-staff: Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, Tue 1/26/2016 - J. Mark Eddy, "From Research to Practice"

[Denise McKenney]

Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership (EMPL) is pleased to announce the following colloquium as part of the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series:

J. Mark Eddy, Ph.D.
University of Washington

>From Research to Practice:
Planting the Seeds of Change through Multiple Modes of Intervention

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
119 Lokey Education Bldg
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch provided


University faculty members are called upon to juggle and successfully fulfill multiple roles each day, each quarter, and each year. Dr. Eddy will discuss the intentional integration of the major roles of faculty - teaching, research, and service - with a fourth role - advocacy - within a program of work focused on improving outcomes for children and families. Findings from a series of rigorous scientific studies on parent- and child-focused preventive interventions will be discussed in terms of implications for teaching, service and advocacy. Reflections will be made on the value of the successful integration of roles to further the goal of moving research to practice for the benefit of families and communities.

Biosketch

J. Mark Eddy, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at Partners for Our Children, a child welfare-focused research, practice, and policy center within the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a licensed psychologist and prevention scientist and faculty member whose work has focused on the development and testing of psychosocial interventions for children and families who are living in challenging contexts within North and Central America. He has a particular interest in working with partners (e.g., departments, agencies, systems, communities) to develop culturally appropriate, evidence informed preventive interventions that are then rigorously tested through randomized controlled trials. Prior to his work at Partners for Our Children, Dr. Eddy was a Senior Scientist for 25 years at the non-profit behavioral science research institute the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC). He serves as an Associate Editor for the flagship journal of the Society for Prevention Research, Prevention Science. He is currently working with a multidisciplinary team on developing, testing, and refining a suite of "open source" evidence-informed parenting programs designed for delivery during specific points in a the life of a case for families involved with the child welfare system.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists-prod.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20160115/fc17d84c/attachment.html>