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Bridging Research and Policy: Challenges and Strategies for Effective Communication

Explore the challenges of connecting research to policy, including communication issues, distrust, and differing priorities. Learn strategies such as building relationships, persistence, and decision-making focus to enhance effectiveness.

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Bridging Research and Policy: Challenges and Strategies for Effective Communication

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  1. David Pannell People, institutions and policySession synthesis and audience reflections David Pannell

  2. Credit to LWA • Recognising the importance of research into people, institutions and policy • Included some of the key research successes of LWA

  3. Challenges connecting research to policy and management • Research and policy are very different • Communication problems • Distrust • Lack of technical expertise by policy people • Incentives facing researchers • Other issues matter more to policy makers • Policy fashions and crises • Getting access to policy makers • Timing issues

  4. What’s required? • Good relationships, trust • Knowledge of the policy world • Excellent, brief communication, simple compelling message, multiple channels • Persistence, repetition • Time, patience

  5. What’s required? • Luck, grasping of opportunities • A decision-making focus • Simple solutions that will obviously work • Building broad support • Internal champions • Thick skin

  6. Themes/messages • The adoption challenge – connecting research to policy • Not wanted (Steve Dovers) • “There is nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed, for it makes the process of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult.” John Maynard Keynes (1937)

  7. Themes/messages • Case-specific nature of adoption (Siwan Lovett) • Understanding motivations (Siwan Lovett)

  8. Themes/messages • Evidence-based policy • “… will always win” (in the long run) (Colin Creighton) • “In the long-run we’re all dead” (John Maynard Keynes) • Northern Australian Land and Water Taskforce (Rosemary Hill) • Highlights the challenges of adoption

  9. Unpalatable messages • Expect failure and be prepared for it (Paul Martin) • We cannot purchase all environmental outcomes – too costly (Carl Binning) • Need big drivers of value for transformation of land management to be possible (Carl Binning, Kevin Goss) • The end of oil (Barney Foran)

  10. But … • it is possible to influence policy “just” by doing excellent research (Neil Barr)

  11. Applying the lessons

  12. Conclusion • Extremely important work • It remains extremely difficult to connect research into management and policy • The government doesn’t even adopt findings from its own inquiries (Henry tax review)

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