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This initiative aims to bring rigour to the production and use of research, ensuring social outcomes are improved. It goes beyond "telling good stories" about impact and focuses on policy, practice, and changes to outcomes. The project involves funders, universities, civil society, public engagement, and media to collaborate and address critical perspectives such as gender, race, power, ethics, and democratic processes. The goals include sharing expertise, connecting communities, advising decision-makers, and generating new research on evidence production and use.
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Funders • By: • Maximising the value of investment • Ensuring social outcomes are improved • Move beyond ‘telling good stories’ about impact • Bring rigour to the transformation of the production and use of research for society Knowledge production Policy, practice Changes to outcomes
University systems - Civil society - Public engagement Policy, practice and media - Funding streams Funders Capacity and skills Leadership and Training collaboration • Critical perspectives: • Gender • Race • Power and politics • Ethics and values • Democratic processes Knowledge production Research assessment - evaluation - quality Boundary spanners Strategies and interventions Brokers - Networks Communication -metrics Policy, practice Impact assessment Professional systems implementation Theory of change Engagement Altmetrics Changes to outcomes Impact assessment – inclusion and participation
What do we need to know? $ • Understand evidence production • Creating and curating useful evidence base • Skills and workforce, diversity and inclusivity • Documenting funding flows • Understand evidence use • Describing and documenting what ‘use’ we want to see • Describing what researchers do and why • Understanding what users do, how and why • Documenting impact • Improve evidence use • What have we tried? Interventions, strategies, structures, data • Develop methods to empirically investigate these • Bring critical perspectives to bear on these studies • Evaluate changes to social outcomes £ $ $ £ £
Our four goals: • Sharing expertise and best practice about evidence production and use • Connecting communities across sectors globally • Advising decision-makers on how to make best use of evidence • Generating new research on evidence production and use
Sharing expertise • Build on existing expertise about measuring, producing, mobilising knowledge • Translating key lessons across sectors and disciplines To do this, we will: • Produce learning resources for range of audiences • Actively promote cross-sectoral/disciplinary learning through seminar series
Connecting communities • Create opportunities for fertile conversations • Support careers and hybrid roles To do this, we will: • Convene meetings and conferences • Seek support for dedicated interdisciplinary PhD and post-doctoral programme • Internships, prizes and awards in hybrid space
Advising users and funders • Improving interfaces between research / policy & practice • Enabling funders and research users to draw on key lessons about evidence use To do this, we will: 6. Working proactively with research users to identify evidence use needs 7. Engaging with advisory mechanisms
Developing collaborative research programmes • Working with funders and colleagues to develop agendas • Key themes though joint working to ensure interdisciplinarity • Avoiding waste and duplication of effort • Ensuring investments in research are realised
Examples of themes include • Role of boundary spanners and intermediaries (Conservation, Science policy, health) • Ethics of engagement and coproduction (philosophy, critical sociology, research funders, international development) • Supporting diversity in research (critical race / feminist theory, research assessment, peer review and quality appraisal) • Improving quality of use of research (altmetrics, design, development, health, research policy)
Consortium funding • Seeking collaborative funding for: • Initially 3 biannual global conferences (2020, 22, 24) • Post-doctoral and PhD programme • Seminars and ECR support • Resources for leadership and educational materials • Long term, funding for research programmes & infrastructure • ESRC, Research England, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Nuffield Foundation, William T Grant, Gates Fund • Produce learning resources for range of audiences • Actively promote cross-sectoral/disciplinary learning through seminar series • Convene meetings and conferences • Seek support for dedicated interdisciplinary PhD and post-doctoral programme • Internships, prizes and awards in hybrid space • Working proactively with research users to identify evidence use needs • Engaging with advisory mechanisms • Funding truly innovative, interdisciplinary research
