Pereira, Miguel

Miguel Pereira

In 2019 Miguel reached out because he wanted to better understand what drives local elected officials to learn and adopt new policies. Using the research4impact newsletter, we made a new connection with a practitioner who also wanted to better understand that (and who would then apply the results in their work). This connection ultimately led to a new co-designed research project (published in 2023!). Here’s what he reported back in 2019:

“I first heard about Research4Impact at an annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Adam was describing the goals of the organization and his excitement and passion about the project were contagious. I reached out to him a couple of months later with an idea for a collaboration with an environmental organization working with local governments. He quickly shared the idea to the 600+ person r4i community via the r4i newsletter. Within two weeks I was in touch with a colleague who was interested in similar work and offered to share the idea with 350 Seattle. Thanks to r4i we are about to field a collaborative study, less than four months after Adam brought us together.”