The Jerry Lee Lecture is an annual event which takes place at the Campbell Colloquium. Each year a representative from the private sector, academia, or government presents their own vision of how research can be used to inform policy and practice. Each Jerry Lee Lecture guest speaker has been chosen for their exceptional work in their respective areas of study.

The Jerry lee Lecture is sponsored in large part by the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. The mission of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology is to produce major discoveries about the causes and prevention of crime, showing how to make a safer and more democratic world. Please view the links below for more information on Jerry Lee, this year’s lecturer, as well as a listing of former guest speakers.

About Jerry Lee

2008 Guest Lecturer

Mark Lipsey

"Evidence for evidence-based practice: Research and reality in juvenile justice."

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis). The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association's Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research's Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.

Former Jerry Lee Lecturers

• 2001 — Dr. John J. Dilulio, Jr., Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University
• 2002 — Professor Thomas Cook, Northwestern University
• 2003 — Sir Ian Chalmers, James Lind Initiative, UK
• 2004 — Dr. Philip Davies, UK Cabinet Office
• 2005 — Dr. Barry McGaw, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• 2006 — Dr. David Olds, Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
• 2007 — Colleen Flood, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto