2026 Membership Round

EGAP is pleased to announce that we are seeking to expand our network of people and institutions dedicated to developing evidence and research to improve the practice of governance and public policy. We are now accepting applications for both member categories:

Individual researcher applicants must hold a PhD and be within five years of their first academic faculty position. Applicants should conduct field experiments or develop methods for the design and/or analysis of field experiments. We will accept applications from across disciplines and subjects of study within the broad scope of the domains in which EGAP works, including governance, institutions, inequality, climate change, crime and policing, migration, and conflict.

Institutional members are non-profit and/or governmental organizations that prioritize the generation and/or use of evidence from experimental trials or other such rigorous approaches in creating and evaluating their operations. Please note that for this member category the organization is admitted as the member, not the individual. Admitted institutions will be asked to designate a contact at the organization to represent them in EGAP activities.

EGAP members have many opportunities to contribute to the common good, make connections between academia and policy, between researchers based in the global north and the global south, and to improve their own research projects and programs. These opportunities can include:

• Online feedback sessions to improve their own and other members’ research;
• In-person thematic and general meetings that aim to create and foster connections and collaborations between researchers and practitioners, between global north and global south researchers, and to generate advances in theories of change and methods and ethics for studying governance and public policy broadly defined;
• Teaching about statistics and research design in the EGAP Learning Days or via EGAP Methods Guides or other EGAP training and methods resources;
• EGAP staff support for academic members to write about their research for policy and general audiences and for policy experts to translate policy questions for academic audiences;
• Occasional small research grant opportunities.

Applications are due by 11:59pm EST December 15, 2026. Applicants will be notified of results no later than January 15, 2027.

For questions or comments please email admin@egap.org.