Presidential Career Research Award Research and Graduate Studies Beth Green, Ph.D. BETH GREEN is a Professor and Director of Early Childhood and Family Support Research in the Center for the Improvement of Child & Family Services in the School of Social Work. She has partnered with community-based programs for over 25 years to design useful and rigorous evaluation and research studies that improve services for young children and their families while driving effective investment of scarce federal and state resources. Her areas of expertise include quantitative and qualitative program evaluation methods, home visiting, child abuse prevention, early childhood mental health, early childhood care and education, and systems change evaluation. After completing her Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology at Arizona State University, Professor Green found her passion in doing community-based early childhood program evaluation during a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She relocated to Portland in 1996, and worked for 12 years at a private research company before joining PSU in 2010. Since then, she has brought in over 30 research and evaluation grants and contracts totaling more than $10.2 million. These funds support a team of 12 interdisciplinary researchers, and range from small contracts with local non-profits to large state and federally funded studies. Across all of these projects. Professor Green strives to provide equity-driven research that promotes social justice. She is committed to doing research that helps improve the effectiveness of services through continuous program improvement, and that focus on understanding the complex dynamics of change and how programs, researchers, and families can work together to foster successful outcomes for all children. “Dr. Green’s research career exemplifies the best in PSU’s commitment to high-quality, community-engaged, and policyrelevant research and scholarship,” says PSU’s Dean of the School of Social Work, Laura Nissen. “She is an outstanding member of our faculty and an excellent proponent of PSU’s ideals for putting knowledge into service.” The Presidential Career Research Award is Portland State University’s most prestigious honor for career recognition of senior research faculty. Awardees are nominated by their colleagues and selected by a jury of peers based on the career-long significance and quality of their research or creative achievements, as distinct from service or teaching, and as indicated by recognition from experts of national and international reputation. 29
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