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Description: This interview protocol was used with policymakers for the purpose of advancing theory, research, and the practice of evidence-based policymaking, in general, and youth and family policy, in particular. Papers from this study identified policymaker perceptions of the contributions that research makes to policymaking, and also how, when, and which policymakers use research evidence. The data was used to refine community dissonance theory that explains why research is underutilized in policymaking; one foundational premise of the theory is that the research community could more effectively engage policymakers and improve research use if they better understood the policy community—its inhabitants, institutions, and culture. Another analysis proposed a framework for whether, when, and how researchers can effectively engage policymakers, which is illustrated with the perspective of legislators. Based on legislators’ reports of the contributions that research evidence makes to policymaking, several items are proposed for expanding the measurement of research utilization to capture how it is employed for instrumental, conceptual, political (tactical), process, and relational purposes. Links for the full articles can be found here: 1) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jftr.12310 2) https://content.apa.org/record/2019-23610-001 3) https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/law0000232 4) DOI: 10.1037/amp0000681 5) https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12306