Associate Director
LSU Social Research and Evaluation Center, United States
Samuel Robison, PhD, is Associate Director of the Social Research and Evaluation Center, and an Associate Professor of Research in the Lutrill and Pearl Payne School of Education at LSU. He has been been a program evaluator, researcher, and manager of data collection and reporting efforts for projects funded by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, and Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the state of Louisiana. He has strong analytic skills in research and evaluation domains that were developed and honed through work on efforts addressing youth dropout prevention, workforce development, behavioral health and substance abuse prevention and treatment, improvements to the extended foster care system, and university-based training and capacity building programs, to name a few. Dr. Robison was trained by globally recognized experts in quantitative and qualitative analysis as well as program evaluation, and developed leadership and management skills through projects supervising and collaborating with a range of undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty members. Dr. Robison has collaborated with faculty members in political science, economics, psychology, psychiatry, social work, veterinary medicine, leadership and human resource development, child and family studies, and education. He has worked with external partners in the LA Department of Health, the Baton Rouge Public School System, the LA Department of Child and Family Services, the LA Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and other communities and organizations across the state.
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145 - Challenges and Opportunities in Evaluating University-Based Centers and Institutes
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