UVA Batten Research Centers & Labs
The complex issues of our time demand that we step into innovative, collaborative, cross-sector relationships capable of mobilizing innovation. Our centers, labs and researchers are an essential point of convergence for interdisciplinary collaboration at UVA and help to galvanize progress and discovery, enriching communities across the globe with their findings.
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Research Centers
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Center for Effective LawmakingThe Center for Effective Lawmaking seeks to advance the generation, communication, and use of new knowledge about the effectiveness of individual lawmakers and U.S. legislative institutions. We envision American legislatures comprised of effective lawmakers, strong institutional capacity, and the incentive structure needed to address America’s greatest public policy challenges.
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Humanitarian Collaborativeat the University of VirginiaThe Humanitarian Collaborative fosters partnership among scholars, students, practitioners, and affected communities to explore, understand, and develop solutions to overcome critical challenges facing crisis-affected communities around the world. The Collaborative aims to bridge traditional gaps among theory, policy, and practice to advance the Batten School and University’s opportunities to work on real-time policy challenges and be a known actor and thought leader in the global humanitarian sphere.
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Center for Education Policy and Workforce CompetitivenessEdPolicyWorks is a joint collaboration between the School of Education and Human Development and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy that seeks to bring together researchers from across the University of Virginia and the State to focus on important questions of educational policy and the competitiveness of labor in an era of globalization.
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National Security Policy CenterThe National Security Policy Center (NSPC) at UVA Batten provides evidence-based teaching, research, and policy engagement on pressing security issues facing the United States and the globe. We support students and security professionals to address the most challenging questions confronting our nation today by increasing knowledge, developing relationships, and improving communication between the U.S. government and academia.
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Behavioral Science Labs
Gabe Adams‘ APPLE lab’s research centers on morality and social justice. They investigate how people attempt to address wrongdoing, and why their responses are sometimes ineffective.
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Gerald Higginbotham‘s CHIP Lab investigates how individuals perceive themselves, others, and social policy. The lab particularly focuses on how identity and cultural-historical contexts matter for these perceptions and can provide insight into persistent policy issues in the U.S.
Learn moreThe Judgments and Decisions Experimental (JADE) Lab focuses on the organizational, social, and psychological forces that regulate individual and group behavior under the direction of Professor Eileen Chou. We are comprised of undergraduate and graduate researchers, post-doctoral researchers, a lab manager, and collaborators from around the world.
Learn moreAbigail Scholer‘s Motivation Science Lab investigates human motivation and goal pursuit through a social psychological lens to understand when, why, and how people triumph and fail in pursuit of life’s challenges and opportunities.
Learn moreBenjamin Converse‘s SoBaD Lab is a psychology research lab that studies social judgment, social exchange, motivation and self-regulation, perspective-taking, and decision making.
Learn moreThe mission of Kyle Dobson‘s Solutions Lab is to create accessible, effective, evidence-based solutions that address the root causes of society’s most pressing problems.
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Environmental Inequality LabThe Environmental Inequality Lab is a nonpartisan research group that applies a rigorous, data-driven approach to understand how our environment shapes economic opportunity and well-being. The lab develops novel data infrastructures, publishes frontier research in top academic journals, invests in early career researchers, and creates public-facing tools and products that help to democratize access to information and inform decision-making.
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Public Engagement in Governance: Looking, Listening and Learning Laboratory (PEGLLLLab)The PEGLLLLab seeks to engineer change by expanding policymaking conversations to include not only those who create and administer policies, but those who live them. We partner with municipalities and organizations to broaden the definition of public safety and keep ourselves and our communities safe, whole and thriving.