“How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact,” Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University

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Event time: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 3:00pm through 5:00pm
Location: 
Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Room A002
77 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker: 
Adam Seth Levine, Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University; President and Co-founder of research4impact
Event description: 

ISPS POLICY-RELATED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

Working for social impact often requires collaboration among social scientists, practitioners, advocates, community members, policy-makers, and others. This workshop will explain how people with diverse forms of expertise can seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

This interactive workshop helps people solve a common problem that arises in working relationships between people with diverse forms of knowledge: self-censorship. People do not always feel comfortable sharing their concerns and what they know. Yet when people don’t share, the major benefit of diverse interactions is lost. And we often don’t realize it because self-censorship is not observable. In this workshop, participants learn techniques for reducing self-censorship in their own working relationships, and for facilitating new ones between others that minimize self-censorship as well. Registration is required; please register at this link.

Adam Seth Levine is an Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. Many questions pique his interest and excitement. The top ones are: “When do ordinary citizens become engaged in civic and political life, and with what impact?” and, “How can social science be useful to nonprofits seeking social change?” He is also the president and co-founder of research4impact, a nonprofit that fosters meaningful collaborations between researchers and practitioners. He applies the findings from his work on the usefulness of social science directly to research4impact along with publishing them in peer-reviewed journals.

This workshop is open to the ISPS community only, including ISPS Policy Fellows, ISPS Director’s Fellows, ISPS Dahl Fellows, and all ISPS affiliated faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

Registration Info: 
Registration is required.