The body of scientific knowledge accumulated by the scholarly disciplines such as Developmental Psychopathology can achieve meaningful public impact if wielded and used in policy decision-making. Scientific study of how policymakers use research evidence underscores the need for researchers’ policy engagement; however, barriers in the academy create conditions in which there is a need for infrastructure that increases the feasibility of researchers’ partnership with policymakers. This need led to the development of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model, a systematic approach for developing “boundary spanning” infrastructure, which has been experimentally tested and shown to improve policymakers’ use of research evidence and bolster researchers’ policy skills and engagement. This paper presents original research regarding the optimization of the RPC model, which sought to better serve and engage scholars across the globe. Trial findings shed light on ways to improve conditions that make good use of researchers’ time for policy engagement via a virtual platform and enhanced e-communications. Future directions, implications, and practical guidelines for how scientists can engage in the political process and improve the impact of a collective discipline are also discussed.

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转变研究对政策影响的范式：改善研究人员参与和集体行动的基础设施

发展精神病理学等学术学科积累的科学知识如果在政策决策中得到运用，可以产生有意义的公众影响。对政策制定者如何使用研究证据的科学研究强调了研究人员参与政策的必要性；然而，学院内部的障碍创造了条件，需要基础设施来增加研究人员与政策制定者建立伙伴关系的可行性。这种需求催生了研究到政策合作模型的发展，这是一种开发“跨界”基础设施的系统方法，经过实验测试并证明该模型可以改善政策制定者对研究证据的使用，并增强研究人员的政策技能和参与度。本文介绍了有关 RPC 模型优化的原创研究，旨在更好地服务和吸引全球学者。试验结果揭示了改善条件的方法，通过虚拟平台和增强的电子通信充分利用研究人员的时间参与政策。还讨论了科学家如何参与政治进程和提高集体学科影响力的未来方向、影响和实用指南。