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Editorial transition: introductions and farewells. 编辑过渡：介绍和告别。

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000041

Mariah Kornbluh, Daniel Mallinson, Zachary P Neal

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Policy engagement as 'empowered representation': democratic mediation through a participatory research project on climate resilience. 作为“授权代表”的政策参与：通过气候适应能力参与性研究项目进行民主调解。

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000033

Laurence Piper, Gillian F Black, Leif Petersen, Liezl Dick, Anna Wilson, Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa

{"title":"Policy engagement as 'empowered representation': democratic mediation through a participatory research project on climate resilience.","authors":"Laurence Piper, Gillian F Black, Leif Petersen, Liezl Dick, Anna Wilson, Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000033","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The article analyses the policy engagement component of a research project on climate resilience in vulnerable communities that took place in Cape Town, South Africa. Conducted in 2022, the engagement included community and stakeholder events in three research sites, and a cross-cutting policy event with municipal officials, held at the end of the project. Importantly, this policy engagement process occurred in a context of political marginalisation, that is, one characterised by low trust, and little meaningful representation or even communication between these vulnerable communities and the city.Aims and objectives: This article examines the impact of policy engagement on political relations between local government and vulnerable communities.Methods: The overall methodology of the article is qualitative, using an illustrative case-study research design to unpack the subjective experiences of both government officials and residents of vulnerable communities. Primary data included many primary documents, direct observation of the engagements and post-event interviews.Findings: First, the engagement process created new 'invented' spaces for the representation of community perspectives to the city, and the city's perspective to the community. Second, the engagement facilitated community self-representation through educating community members to advocate for their ideas in these new invented spaces. Third, this engagement tended to be more constructive and deliberative than polarising and confrontational.Discussion and conclusions: Drawing on the theoretical framework of 'political mediation', the policy engagement process is characterised as a positive instance of democratic mediation through 'empowered representation', with some specified limitations.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"87-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers. 加拿大COVID-19大流行期间证据合成的生产和利用：证据合成生产者的观点

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000034

Tricia Corrin, Paul Cairney, Eric B Kennedy

{"title":"The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers.","authors":"Tricia Corrin, Paul Cairney, Eric B Kennedy","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000034","url":null,"abstract":"Background: COVID-19 accentuated an evergreen dilemma in evidence-informed policy making: the imperative to synthesise the best available evidence with limited time to produce high quality synthesis. The pandemic prompted the adaptation of evidence synthesis practices to match the urgency of the crisis, and heightened demand by policy makers, while maintaining a focus on quality. This study documents the response to these challenges from the perspectives of those who produced evidence syntheses in Canada.Methods: A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted between October 2022 and January 2023. Data collection included interviews with 22 participants within 19 organisations across seven provinces. A thematic analysis was performed and reported narratively.Results: Evidence synthesis producers in Canada adapted in response to the demands of different types of requests during the pandemic. Participants described several key challenges in responding to end-users, in which a lack of knowledge of evidence synthesis processes and products prompted difficult questions and unrealistic expectations. They responded to the needs of evidence synthesis requestors by creating custom syntheses, utilising rapid review methodologies, emphasising limitations and incorporating recommendations into syntheses.Discussion and conclusion: The evidence synthesis field was able to adapt to pandemic challenges in valuable ways. Still, this experience accentuates disconnects between producers and users, including differing views on the purpose, methods, limitations and implementation of synthesis findings.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"108-128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Insight for knowledge brokers: factors predicting relationships with federal staffers. 洞察知识经纪人：预测与联邦工作人员关系的因素。

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000032

Patrick O'Neill, Jessica Pugel, Elizabeth C Long, D Max Crowley, Taylor Scott

{"title":"Insight for knowledge brokers: factors predicting relationships with federal staffers.","authors":"Patrick O'Neill, Jessica Pugel, Elizabeth C Long, D Max Crowley, Taylor Scott","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000032","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000032","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In theory and practice, it is understood that personal relationships play a role in the effectiveness of translational models that bridge research and policy. These models can be made more efficient by understanding factors impacting relationships between policy-making players and third-party knowledge brokers.Aims and objectives: This study investigates a range of personal and office-level characteristics in predicting initial meetings and sustained relationships between federal staffers and knowledge brokers.Methods: A public affairs database, Quorum, was used to pull data on staffers who were contacted between September 2021 and August 2022 during an optimisation phase of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC). Logistic regression models were used to understand the impact of the characteristics on outcomes such as attending initial meetings and attending meetings facilitated by the RPC.Findings: Mid-level staffers and democratic staffers were more likely to meet with RPC staff. Office tenure was predictive of lower odds of meeting with RPC staff. For significant associations, the sample was stratified by political party to determine if the results differed by party.Discussion and conclusions: Together, these results suggest there are both personal and office-level characteristics affecting the federal staffers' engagement with knowledge brokers. This work further informs efforts to bridge the gap between science and policy by informing knowledge brokers which offices and staffers they may want to approach.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"71-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937546/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study. 与社区组织共同设计青少年分流计划：个案研究

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000029

Sarah C Walker, Kathryn A Cunningham, Emi J Gilbert, Larry Norman, Shaun Worthy, Kathleen Holand

{"title":"Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study.","authors":"Sarah C Walker, Kathryn A Cunningham, Emi J Gilbert, Larry Norman, Shaun Worthy, Kathleen Holand","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000029","url":null,"abstract":"Background: We explore the feasibility of applying methods of participatory codesign to collaborative service development with community-led youth diversion programmes. Collaborative partnerships can support wealth redistribution and community mobilisation, a goal of governments aiming to implement equity-focused policy. There is little systematic exploration of methods aiming to structure the relationship between government and community-led programmes as part of youth criminal-legal diversion efforts.Methods: We use case study methodology to assess the feasibility and impact of a curriculum codesign approach between a university research team and two community-led organisations providing diversion services through a county juvenile court. The codesign method was informed by participatory design and use of research evidence frameworks.Findings: The analysis focuses on the feasibility of the approach from the perspective of the university research team and community organisations as well as how well the approach successfully navigated critical components of participatory process, including shared power, deference to community vision and values, and a valued end product. We conclude that the approach was generally feasible as a quality improvement strategy and well-received by the community-led organisations.Discussion and conclusions: Codesign is a promising strategy for reconciling public administration and health equity goals. The approach used in this case study adds to a small literature on methods of using codesign as a quality improvement process with applications for government contracting and monitoring, programme development and capacity-building.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"26-45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production 打破奥弗顿之窗:对抗性合作制作的必要性

3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI: 10.1332/17442648y2023d000000005

Elliott Aidan Johnson, Irene Hardill, Matthew T. Johnson, Daniel Nettle

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Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review 检视地方政府研究体系与模式:系统回顾

3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1332/17442648y2023d000000002

Emma S. Hock, Alison Scope, Andrew Booth

{"title":"Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review","authors":"Emma S. Hock, Alison Scope, Andrew Booth","doi":"10.1332/17442648y2023d000000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648y2023d000000002","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Local authorities (LA) are key in improving population health, and LA public health decision makers need support from appropriately organised research capacity; however, few models of LA research systems are known to exist. Aims and objectives: To explore potential and existing models of LA-based research systems. Methods: This mapping review and time-constrained systematic review synthesises conceptual and empirical literature from 12 health and social science databases, grey literature and reference/citation tracking. Three reviewers screened titles, abstracts and full texts of retrieved records, and extracted key data from included papers. Evidence was synthesised based on characteristics of research systems and quality-assessed for relevance, rigour and richness. Findings: Nine models were examined in depth. From these, we developed a typology of research systems. Few models were specifically designed for LA research activity; as a Whole System approach, the Local Authority Champions of Research model offers a potential blueprint. Useful lessons may be learned from UK Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research, Academic Collaborative Centres in the Netherlands, local Research and Development units in Sweden, and generic University-Community partnerships. Discussion and conclusions: An optimal research system requires the coexistence of multiple systems including Centre, Partnership, Collaboration, Network and Community types. The review is UK-focused, but the models appear to have wider relevance. Our classification offers those planning an LA research system the opportunity to choose an approach that meets their requirements and resources. A Whole System approach is optimal, with egalitarian input from the LA and academia.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135942951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units 产生高质量和政策相关研究的关键因素:来自国际行为科学单位的见解

3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1332/17442648y2023d000000001

Jan Lecouturier, Ivo Vlaev, Paul Chadwick, Angel M. Chater, Michael P. Kelly, Louis Goffe, Carly Meyer, Mei Yee Tang, Vivi Antonopoulou, Fiona Graham, Falko F. Sniehotta

{"title":"The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units","authors":"Jan Lecouturier, Ivo Vlaev, Paul Chadwick, Angel M. Chater, Michael P. Kelly, Louis Goffe, Carly Meyer, Mei Yee Tang, Vivi Antonopoulou, Fiona Graham, Falko F. Sniehotta","doi":"10.1332/17442648y2023d000000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648y2023d000000001","url":null,"abstract":"Background: There has been a rapid increase in the number of, and demand for, organisations offering behavioural science advice to government over the last ten years. Yet we know little of the state of science and the experiences of these evidence providers. Aims and objectives: To identify current practice in this emerging field and the factors that impact on the production of high-quality and policy-relevant research. Methods: A qualitative study using one-to-one interviews with representatives from a purposeful sample of 15 units in the vanguard of international behavioural science research in policy. The data were analysed thematically. Findings: Relationships with policymakers were important in the inception of units, research conduct, implementation and dissemination of findings. Knowledge exchange facilitated a shared understanding of policy issues/context, and of behavioural science. Sufficient funding was crucial to maintain critical capacity in the units’ workforces, build a research portfolio beneficial to policymakers and the units, and to ensure full and transparent dissemination. Discussion and conclusion: Findings highlight the positive impact of strong evidence-provider/user relationships and the importance of governments’ commitment to co-produced research programmes to address policy problems and transparency in the dissemination of methods and findings. From the findings we have created a framework, ‘STEPS’ (Sharing, Transparency, Engagement, Partnership, Strong relationships), of five recommendations for units working with policymakers. These findings will be of value to all researchers conducting research on behalf of government.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135489866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study 爱尔兰高级卫生服务决策者对证据使用的经验和看法:一项定性研究

3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1332/174426421x16917571241005

Susan Calnan, Sheena McHugh

{"title":"Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study","authors":"Susan Calnan, Sheena McHugh","doi":"10.1332/174426421x16917571241005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421x16917571241005","url":null,"abstract":"Background: To support evidence-informed decision making in a health service context, there is a need to better understand the contextual challenges regarding evidence use. Aims and objectives: To examine experiences of evidence use and perceived barriers, facilitators and recommended strategies to increase research use among senior decision makers in the national health service in Ireland. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with decision makers in Ireland’s national health service (n= 17) from August 2021 to January 2022. Criterion sampling was used (division in the organisation and grade of position), and interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Barriers and facilitators were mapped according to multiple-level categories (individual, organisational, research, social, economic, political) identified in the literature. Findings: Health service decision makers described a blended and often reactive approach to using evidence; the type and source of evidence used depended on the issue at hand. Barriers and facilitators to research use manifested at multiple levels, including the individual (time); organisational (culture, access to research, resources, skills); research (relevance, quality); and social, economic and political levels (external links with universities, funding, political will). Strategies recommended by participants to enhance evidence-informed decision making included synthesising key messages from the research, strengthening links with universities, and fostering more embedded research. Discussion and conclusion: Evidence use in health service contexts is a dynamic process with multiple drivers. This study underlines the need for a multilevel approach to support research use in health services, including strategies targeted at less tangible elements such as the organisational culture regarding research.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"357 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135489857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes 理解经纪人、中介和边界制定者:对战略、技能和结果的多部门审查

3区社会学

Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1332/174426421x16328416007542

Jennifer Watling Neal, Stephen Posner, Brian Brutzman

{"title":"Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes","authors":"Jennifer Watling Neal, Stephen Posner, Brian Brutzman","doi":"10.1332/174426421x16328416007542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421x16328416007542","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners (BIBS) bridge research and policy or practice, and can elevate the role of evidence in decision making. However, there is limited integration of the literature across different sectors to understand the strategies that BIBS use, the skills needed to carry out these strategies, and the expected outcomes of these strategies. Aims and objectives: In this review, we characterise the strategies, skills, and outcomes of BIBS across the literature in education, environmental, health and other relevant sectors. Methods: We included 185 conceptual and review papers written in English that included descriptions or conceptualisations of BIBS in the context of knowledge transfer or research use in the education, environmental, health, or other relevant sectors (for example, social services, international development). For each included paper, we extracted and coded information on sector, BIBS strategies, skills, and outcomes. Findings: Our review revealed five strategies used by BIBS that were emphasised in the literature. Specifically, 79.5% of papers mentioned facilitating relationships, 75.7% mentioned disseminating evidence, 56.8% mentioned finding alignment, 48.6% mentioned capacity building, and 37.3% mentioned advising decisions as strategies used by BIBS. Additionally, papers described skills and expected outcomes that were common across these strategies as well as those that were unique to specific strategies. Discussion and conclusions: We discuss implications of these findings for understanding how BIBS interface with knowledge users and producers as well as directions for future research on BIBS and the professionalisation of BIBS roles.","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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