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Pathways to policy impact: a new approach for planning and evidencing research impact
Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2018-08-31 , DOI: 10.1332/174426418x15326967547242
Mark S. Reed 1 , Rosalind Bryce 2 , Ruth Machen 3
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Background: The use of research in policy settings is complex, unpredictable and influenced by a range of poorly understood social factors. This makes it difficult to plan for, facilitate and evaluate policy impacts arising from research. Aims and objectives: 1. Propose and test tools for planning for and facilitating research impact, based on a new logic model combined with a novel approach to public/stakeholder analysis 2. Propose and test methods for establishing causal links between research and policy impacts 3. Use case study findings to provide new empirical insights into the social processes that mediate the generation of impact from research Methods: Social Network Analysis, qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews and analysis of secondary data were used in a case study of peatland climate change research in Scottish Government policy. Findings: Boundary organizations and centrally positioned, well-trusted individuals, were crucial to the development of a trusted body of research in which policy-makers were sufficiently confident as the basis for policy. Discussion and conclusions: The non-linear social dynamics that characterize sciencepolicy networks can be understood and evaluated. By using the tools described in this paper, researchers and other stakeholders can better plan, facilitate and evaluate research impact.

中文翻译:

政策影响途径:规划和证明研究影响的新方法

背景:在政策环境中使用研究是复杂的、不可预测的,并受到一系列知之甚少的社会因素的影响。这使得难以规划、促进和评估研究产生的政策影响。目的和目标: 1. 基于新的逻辑模型与公共/利益相关者分析的新方法相结合,提出和测试用于规划和促进研究影响的工具 2. 提出和测试在研究和政策影响之间建立因果关系的方法 3 . 使用案例研究结果提供新的实证洞察力,以研究介导影响产生的社会过程:社交网络分析,在苏格兰政府政策中泥炭地气候变化研究的案例研究中使用了半结构化访谈的定性分析和二手数据的分析。调查结果:边界组织和处于中心位置的、值得信赖的个人对于发展一个值得信赖的研究机构至关重要,在这些机构中,政策制定者有足够的信心作为政策的基础。讨论和结论:可以理解和评估表征科学政策网络的非线性社会动态。通过使用本文中描述的工具,研究人员和其他利益相关者可以更好地规划、促进和评估研究影响。对发展一个值得信赖的研究机构至关重要,在该机构中,决策者有足够的信心作为政策的基础。讨论和结论:可以理解和评估表征科学政策网络的非线性社会动态。通过使用本文中描述的工具,研究人员和其他利益相关者可以更好地规划、促进和评估研究影响。对发展一个值得信赖的研究机构至关重要,在该机构中,决策者有足够的信心作为政策的基础。讨论和结论:可以理解和评估表征科学政策网络的非线性社会动态。通过使用本文中描述的工具,研究人员和其他利益相关者可以更好地规划、促进和评估研究影响。
更新日期:2018-08-31
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