Paul Speer's research interests focus on community organizing, social power and community change. He studies the processes and mechanisms of community organizations as these groups work to alter social conditions in their communities. Additionally, he is interested in linking these organizational processes to their associated impacts on the broader community as well as the impacts on individual participants.

Paul is currently an Associate Professor at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Missouri, Kansas, and his BS in Psychology from Baker University.