Researchers and communities (organizations, online groups, etc.) increasingly see value in working together to discover and test ways to achieve a community's goals, while adding to scholarship and knowledge. But as many who have sought and been a part of a collaborative research project can attest, such collaborations can be challenging to forge and to conduct.

As the research manager at CAT Lab, I worked with Nathan Matias using and honing CAT Lab's approach of "Citizen Behavioral Science" to conduct research in a way that anticipates and smooths bumps in community-research collaborations. With CAT Lab, and now at Prosocial Design Network, I've co-designed and led researcher-practitioner convenings to help catalyze research that is informed by practice and that can support online stewards and community builders in building healthy online spaces.

Community-researcher collaborations
The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks. Preprint. Blog post.
Effects of Receiving Personalized Welcome Messages on French Wikipedia. Preprint. Blog post.
Broadening African Self-Representation on Wikipedia: A Field Experiment. Preprint. Blog post.
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Research summits
The Public Sphere post Election 2020: A virtual research summit.
Wikipedian Research Summit, Stockholm 2019.
Roblox-PDN Convening, San Mateo 2025.