Program Evaluation Learning Community Webinar: Journal Club [December 8, 2026]

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A new open-access journal, IMPACT, is launching this November, dedicated to advancing and improving knowledge on the ways that research, evidence, and research use lead to broader impacts in the world. Developed by a team from American University, the Impact Funders Forum, and Sage Publishing, IMPACT aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders to understand and facilitate the impact of research.

Join us on December 8 from 1-2pm EST for a discussion with the journal’s editor-in-chief Susanna Campbell as we learn about the journal’s aims and discuss, through a journal club format, how they can relate to HRA members’ work in measuring and communicating research impact. We will share the article to read ahead of the webinar for discussion.

Speaker

Prof. Susanna Campbell – Editor-in-Chief and Provost Associate Professor, American University
Susanna P. Campbell is Provost Associate Professor at the School of International Service, the Director of the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab (RIPIL), and the Director and Principal Investigator of the Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC) at American University. She is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched IMPACT Journal on the impact of research on society. Her scholarly research examines research-to-impact pathways as well as interactions between international and domestic actors in fragile and conflict-affected contexts and is supported by awards from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, US National Science Foundation, Humanity United, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Network for International Studies, the United States Institute of Peace, the Swedish and Dutch governments, and the United Nations, among others. Her work has been published with American Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Review, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Politics, Oxford University Press, Political Research Quarterly, and Review of International Organizations, in addition to policy-focused publications, such as Foreign Affairs and the Washington Post. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the United Nations, International Crisis Group, and the Council on Foreign Relations. For further information, see www.susannacampbell.com.