The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) embarked on a yearlong effort to identify and examine ways to make financial aid research more relevant to financial aid practitioners. To inform their recommendations, they surveyed NASFAA members, reviewed the research literature on financial aid, and facilitated a number of focus groups across the country. This report presents the findings from the outlined work along with recommendations for how research can better inform the practice of financial aid administration. In addition to the recommendations, this study identified three main themes as a result of the feedback from, and conversations with, financial aid administrators. The themes are as follows: (1) Researchers should aim to make findings simple and digestible and make research accessible to practitioners to help communication; between research and practice flow more efficiently and effectively; (2) Researchers should conduct studies that encourage the implementation of more effective and realistic policy; and (3) Financial aid administrators are already pressed for time, so researchers should strive to share and communicate findings in a way that is mindful of these time constraints.