Our Goal
Make Relationship Science Accessible to the Public
About
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.
How We Began
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.
Who We Are
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.
Relevate Distinguished Scholars
Relevate recognizes the important work of scholars who are using their knowledge and experience to positively influence public issues and discourse through public scholarship and engagement in their expertise area.
Abbie Goldberg, PhD
Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she also currently serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies. She is also the current holder of the Jan and Larry Landry Endowed Chair. She received her BA in psychology from Wesleyan University, and an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research examines diverse families, including LGBTQ-parent families and adoptive-parent families. She is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed articles and three books and is the co-editor of four books. Dr. Goldberg was selected as a Relevate Distinguished Scholar for her excellence in sharing research on Twitter and through book-writing.
Karen Benjamin Guzzo, PhD
Received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina in 2003 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at Bowling Green State University in fall 2011. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research, and her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Trained as a family demographer and sociologist, most of her work examines childbearing behaviors in the U.S., looking at trends over time, differences across groups, and the circumstances in which people have children. She is passionate not only about conducting scholarly research but communicating research in a straightforward and timely manner to the general public. Dr. Guzzo was selected as a Relevate Distinguished Scholar for her excellence in sharing research on social media and with the press.
