Georgia Hall, PhD Senior Research Scientist National Institute on Out-of-School Time Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
Dr. Georgia Hall is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time/Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and has extensive experience as a researcher and evaluator of youth development and out-of-school time programs, practices, and professional development. Her work includes serving as Research Scientist on the Massachusetts Afterschool Research Study, which was a statewide research study of 78 afterschool programs in Massachusetts. Dr. Hall’s tasks involved measurement development, extensive field work, data collection, data analysis design, data set construction, data analysis, and reporting. Hall is currently the Principal Investigator for Achieve Boston’s School-Age and Youth Development Credential Pilot. She is documenting through interviews, focus groups, observations, and data review the experiences of 24 out-of-school time professionals participating in the 18 month credential. Hall has developed trainings and workshops on identifying promising practices in afterschool and has played a lead role for 3 years in assisting New Jersey After 3 with their statewide Promising Practice Initiative. Dr. Hall recently completed a paper for the Massachusetts Special Commission on After School and Out of School Time titled “Making the Case: Quality Afterschool Programs Matter.” Hall is currently serving as Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health funded secondary analysis of the NICHD study data related to physical activity in out-of-school time, and as Senior Research Scientist on a National Science Foundation project focused on examining experiences of urban youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math study.
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