Dr. Grant is a Research Associate Professor at the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice at the College of Education, University of Oregon. His scholarship focuses on the generation, synthesis, and use of evidence across the social, behavioural, and health sciences. He specializes in methods for summarizing research and expert opinion on the effectiveness and implementation of interventions (practices, programs, and policies). He is specifically interested in research synthesis methods, open science practices, and online Delphi processes due to their significant influence on the credibility and utility of research evidence for policy and practice decisions. He received the 2024 Nan Tobler Award from the Society for Prevention Research for contributions to the summarization and articulation of the empirical evidence relevant to prevention science.
Dr. Grant completed his doctorate in Social Intervention as a Clarendon Scholar at the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Grant spent several years as a Social and Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation and a Faculty Member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He then served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, where he was subsequently promoted with tenure to Associate Professor. Dr. Grant currently provides service to the field as Chair of the TOP Guidelines Advisory Board, Methodological Transparency Editor of the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Associate Methods Editor of Campbell Systematic Reviews, and an editorial board member of Prevention Science. He has received external support for his research program from Arnold Ventures, Education Endowment Foundation, Fetzer Franklin Fund, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United States Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Wallace Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation.
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