Make Relationship Science Accessible to the Public
Relevate is on a mission to provide the public with access to relationship science that reflects their diverse lived experiences and supports them in making healthy and informed decisions about their lives.
Since 2013
Although social scientists have been researching what makes relationships thrive for decades, there is a huge gap between what researchers know about healthy relationships and what is accessible to the general public. In 2013, we set out on a quest to gather all the evidence-based relationship information on the internet into one place, but soon discovered there wasn’t much to find. Since then, our purpose has shifted toward reducing the barriers that separate the work of relationship scholars from the people who would benefit most from their research: Everyone.
Relevate is an interdisciplinary team of relationship scientists, educators, and practitioners in partnership with computer engineers, marketing specialists, and young adults who are passionate about improving the health of individuals and relationships everywhere. We are committed to enhancing public well-being by providing accessible, research-based information on interpersonal relationships. We recognize the diverse lived experiences within our society and strive to bridge the gap between relationship science and everyday life in order to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their own lives and relationships.
Professor, Clark University
Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and Jan and Larry Landry Endowed Chair. Her research focuses on diverse families, including LGBTQ-parent and adoptive-parent families. She has published 140+ peer-reviewed articles and three books, and was selected for excellence sharing research on Twitter and through book-writing.
Director, Center for Family and Demographic Research
PhD in Sociology from UNC (2003) and postdoc at UPenn. A family demographer at Bowling Green State University since 2011, her work examines childbearing behaviors in the U.S. She was selected for excellence sharing research on social media and with the press.
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Relationship Researcher / Associate Professor
My interest in romantic relationships started to take shape when I was a psychology student at Miami University in Ohio. I wrote a senior thesis about how young women used romantic narratives in media to guide their beliefs about relationships. This led me to graduate school at the University of Missouri where I studied divorce, remarriage, and stepfamilies. At Mizzou I learned the power of interviews to tell the stories of romantic love and loss that mean so much to our lives. During that time, I also fell in love and started a family. We moved to New England for me to take my dream job at the University of New Hampshire where I have continued to study relationships with colleagues spread all over the US.
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