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This chapter presents an overview of the academic sector that conducts research on military families. Academic research has its own culture and demands which shape the kinds of research scholars produce. Because good research depends on having high-quality data and access to study populations, academic research is constrained when access to both is limited. University researchers are constantly assessing the landscape of ideas, identifying gaps and holes in our knowledge, and wrestling with the limits of our science and data as we try to fill those gaps in knowledge. As such, academics maintain continuity in the research community. As military forces are mobilized for large-scale deployments, government agencies should ensure a mobilization of the research community. If significant resources and personnel are committed to a conflict, there is a responsibility to invest in research to understand the impact of that choice on our servicemembers and military families.
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Kleykamp, M. (2018). Serving Military Families Through Research: The View from the Ivory Tower. In: Hughes-Kirchubel, L., Wadsworth, S., Riggs, D. (eds) A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families. Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68984-5_17
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