Leadership & Staff
The Institute's director and associate director oversee IPR’s faculty members and research processes, aided by the members of IPR’s Executive Committee and its research and administrative staff members.
Who We Are
At IPR, we provide the evidence that policymakers need to make people’s lives better.
Our Mission
Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is one of the country’s oldest and most prominent interdisciplinary social science research institutes. The Institute’s more than 170 award-winning faculty are among the top experts in their fields. Using rigorous methods, they conduct innovative, policy-relevant research, tackling some of the nation’s most pressing social issues—from education and inequality to social safety nets and gun violence. IPR faculty experts train policy-minded scholars and doers, and they share their research widely with policymakers, foundations, nonprofits, and the media to support sound policy decisions.
Our Community
Faculty
Faculty are the bedrock of IPR’s community. They conduct research and share their policy-relevant findings through seminars, conferences, policy briefings, and workshops.
Students & Postgrads
The Institute counts postdoctoral fellows as well as graduate and undergraduate research assistants among its community, who work with IPR faculty researchers on projects addressing vital social policy issues.
Find out more about IPR student RAs and postdoctoral fellows
Supporting Research
IPR offers a range of services to our faculty and students, divided broadly between administrative and communications supports.
As part of Northwestern University, IPR is housed under the Office for Research, but it also works closely with other schools and departments, in particular, the School of Education and Social Policy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Pritzker School of Law, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Kellogg School of Management, in addition to collaborating with funders and external organizations and institutions.
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Our Groups and Centers
IPR has several IPR faculty-led and faculty-affiliated labs and research groups.