Notes from presentation by Dr Sarah Bickerton & Dr Suzanne Woodward sarah.bickerton@auckland.ac.nz s.woodward@auckland.ac.nz
Try contacting science advisor of the appropriate organisation.
Siloing across different disciplines.
Wicked problems need multiple analytical lenses.
Ten-point guidelines for an effective process of research impact assessment
(Not a hard ruleset, an ideal model)
In reality, it’s intricate interpay back and forth between the steps. Evidence (our work) can fit into every step, but you don’t need to be everywhere. Find your space.
(similar to a manifesto?) Blank sheet of paper that is used to propose a bunch of things. Fits into the first two steps best. Public document which often outlines and evaluations some options on the table.
Credit Jann and […]
New Zealand doesn’t have a developed NGO sector like other western nations. We have a centralisation problem. This leads to a large reliance on ‘big four’ consulting firms.
Consider how to take blue-skies research to explict steps and reccomendations
How is data presented? Make it tell a story so the steps of implimentation make sense. How does the story get formed after the data is presented? (Visual components help)
UoA PPI creates policy briefings (good examples)
The Researcher’s Guide to Influencing Policy – Mark Reed
Impact goal | Relevant parties | Activities | Impact indicators | Impact risks | Risk mitigation | Organisational comments |
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Describe the benefit that will be delivered | Name of organisation(s), group(s) or individual(s) who will benefit from these impacts, who may be able to help us to deliver impacts or who are interested in these impacts for other reasons (see your 3i analysis) | Identify activities that could enable these parties to get the benefits described in the impact goal, or enable them to deliver these benefits for others | What would success look like, and how would you capture this for communication to others? Identify indicators that you could measure (either qualitatively or quantitatively) to demonstrate that your impact goal(s) have been achieved | Identify risks that could prevent impacts from being achieved and/or that could lead to negative unintentional consequences | Explain how the identified risks can be mitigated | Who will be responsible for delivering the impact goal? Identify any other organisational needs e.g. funding, training or other resources that may needed, and proposed initial actions and timings |
Articulate your goal as specifically as possible. This can include goals of other organisations whose impacts we want to help achieve | Write the name(s) here | Write the activities here | List relevant indicators and means of measurement here | List risks, explaining the nature and magnitude of each risk | Provide risk mitigation narrative here | List anything else necessary to achieve the impact here |
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Really interesting discussion on feeling hopeless in the face of large detrimnetal forces (e.g. economic dependancy on harmful products).
This workshop got me thinking about my research in terms of the policy cycle. I think the policy cycle provides a good framework for understanding the role of this project. Considering we know step 5 is well established re: the current insitutions – so now is time for Agenda Setting, Policy Formulation & Implimentation (Decision making less relevent because of the democratic and paticipatory nature of the research workshops), and then hopefully evaluation.