APPAM Webinars

APPAM is pleased to offer complimentary webinars throughout the year. Below, you can find a list of upcoming webinars, recent webinars with public recordings, and members-only archived webinar topics. Recent webinar recordings are on APPAM's YouTube channel, and all recordings are in your APPAM membership profile in the webinar library.

Don't see a topic you were looking for? APPAM collects webinar proposals from active members throughout the year. If you have a timely and broadly appealing topic you're interested in sharing, please see the webinar proposal section below.

Questions? Email [email protected]. 

Live APPAM webinars are available to everyone, but our webinar library is reserved for active APPAM Members as a membership benefit. Log in as a member to view our full archive. 

Better Presentations

Participants: Jon Schwabish, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

Clear communication of research findings is a central goal for researchers, whether the audience includes colleagues, policymakers, or potential employers. Due to the technical vocabulary often used in research, this goal can present particular challenges for researchers and analysts. In this webinar, essential strategies for public speaking will be explored, and techniques will be provided to enhance audience engagement and support the development of compelling presentations.

Resources: 

• Worksheet: https://policyviz.com/books/better-presentations/book-materials/
• Qualitative data visualization: https://policyviz.com/2023/08/28/exploring-essential-qualitative-data-visualizations/
• https://flourish.studio/
• https://www.canva.com/

How To Speak So People Will Listen

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Participants: Kathleen Peters, Senior Content and Publishing Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Kosali Simon, Professor, Health Economics and Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences, Indiana University, APPAM President-Elect 

The ultimate goal of any researcher is to clearly communicate their research, whether it is to colleagues, policy makers, or potential employers. However, because the vocabulary is often more technical than that of other disciplines, researchers and research analysts may be particularly challenged to achieve this goal. In this webinar, Dr. Peters will address essential strategies for public speaking, offering techniques to help you connect with your audience and create compelling presentations.

Translating Your Research into Action and Advancing Your Career

Participants: Florence LeCraw, MD, Georgia State University and Northside Hospital and Kosali Simon, Professor, Health Economics and Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences, Indiana University, APPAM President-Elect 

For decades scientists of diffusion of innovation have investigated why an innovation became widely adopted. Dr. LeCraw will describe real life experiences on how teams succeeded in their endeavor to get evidenced-based healthcare policies adopted at the local, state, and national levels. She will describe the obstacles they faced, why some teams failed, and techniques used to surmount obstacles to achieve widespread adoption of these policies. These strategies can also help researchers advance their career. Dr. LeCraw will also describe methods that mental health professionals use to help healthcare professionals manage stress. These techniques can be beneficial to researchers who are experiencing high levels of stress.
 

Continuing the Work: Studying Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Current Moment 

Participants: Stephanie Moulton, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Felipe Blanco, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, Maria Cancian, Professor, Georgetown University, Sean McCandless, Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, James E. Wright II, Associatre Professor, Arizona State University.

Diversity and equity are long-standing values among the practitioners and researchers in the APPAM community. In the present moment, uncertainty around funding, institutional support, and the security of researchers and research participants has grown due to increased scrutiny of research striving to advance social equity. The goal of this panel is to discuss the challenges of navigating research at the federal, state, and local levels; novel approaches to funding social equity research; management of partnerships with government and community-based organizations; dissemination of research to the public; and strategies to protect social equity research initiatives.
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Webinar Proposals

APPAM is continuously looking for fresh and timely webinar content; our best resource is our members! Active APPAM members are encouraged to submit webinar proposals for policy-related content and professional development topics.

Submit a Webinar Proposal Here

Webinar Proposal Questions? Email [email protected]. 
 

Archived APPAM Webinars

Live APPAM webinars are available to everyone, but our webinar library is reserved for active APPAM Members as a membership benefit. Log in as a member to view our full archive. 

• APPAM Professional Development Series (August-October 2023)
• Networking and Mentoring in Economics and Policy (October 2023)
• Collecting Information on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in NCES Surveys (May 2023)
• People and Places: Inequality, Migration, Place-Based Economic Development, and Equity (March 2023)
• Utility Decision-Making and Public Policy Around Energy Poverty and Insecurity (September 2022)
• Promoting Equity in State and Local Governments (July 2022)
• Growing the Field of Early Childhood Policy (June 2022)
• Beyond GDP: Measuring Genuine Progress (March 2022)
• Conference Submissions: How to Get Accepted (January 2022)
• Minimum Wage Policy: Impact and Future Direction (October 2021)
• Immigration Policy - Reshaping U.S. Border and Asylum Policy (August 2021)
• How to Start Strong with Research-Government Partnerships (June 2021)
• Food Insecurity, the Child Allowance, and Child Poverty (May 2021)
• Defining Policy Analysis: A Journey That Never Ends (February 2021)

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Retired APPAM Podcasts

 APPAM retired our podcast series in 2023. You can find our previous podcast recordings here.

APPAM's Let's Grab A Coffee podcast was recorded by the Student Advisory Committee (SAC). The episodes were informal conversations with a scholar from the field to show the human side of public policy.