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{"title":"Youth Participatory Action Research meets the Use of Research Evidence: affordances, challenges, and next steps.","authors":"Emily J Ozer, Norma Ming, Devin Corrigan","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000093","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Use of Research Evidence (URE) and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) fields have developed in parallel. YPAR grapples with challenges of timeliness, 'traction', and sustained impact: Where does YPAR evidence go, who hears it, and what happens after youth present their findings? URE frameworks developed primarily with professional research in mind, leaving unexamined the use of evidence generated by students within the systems youth seek to change.</p><p><strong>Position: </strong>Cross-pollination of YPAR and URE strengthens both fields and requires intentionality. URE concepts such as absorptive capacity and brokering illuminate pathways and barriers to YPAR impact, yet must center internal knowledge generated by youth, address power dynamics, and resist reducing YPAR to a transmission model of evidence delivery.</p><p><strong>Arguments: </strong>Drawing on our UC-Berkeley-SFUSD Research-Practice Partnership focused on promoting student engagement and reducing chronic absenteeism, we examine how URE concepts sharpened our questions about organizational learning and decision-making. Districts must expand absorptive capacity to include YPAR as legitimate internal knowledge. Brokering must account for power differentials when youth critique the institutions that serve them. Political and symbolic uses of YPAR risk tokenizing youth input when decision-makers fail to act - or act in ways that contradict youth goals.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>Advancing authentic YPAR integration into system routines requires strategic advance planning, structures connecting evidence to decision-makers, and intentional space for multiple interest holders to shape questions and actions. We call for large-scale empirical investigation of YPAR URE, comparative designs to assess the value-add of YPAR, and systems mapping to clarify pathways to impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"500-509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148240495","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}

{"title":"What (and whose) evidence counts? Interrogating shifting conceptualisations of 'evidence-based' education in public discourse in Australia.","authors":"Nicole Mockler, Emma Rowe, Stephanie Wescott, Sarah Langman","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emphasis on 'evidence-based' practice in education has intensified in Australia over the past three decades. This article charts this rise by presenting a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of a purpose-built corpus of over 1,600 articles published in Australian national and capital city daily newspapers between 1988 and 2024. Using the conceptual lens of 'media logic' (Altheide, 2013), we explore four phases of 'evidence-based' practice linked to the 'what works' agenda. Our analysis finds an increasing focus over time on specific aspects of pedagogical instruction, particularly in the areas of phonics and reading, with emphasis placed on the superiority of explicit and direct instruction. Within the corpus, evidence-based approaches are often equated with value-neutral, rigorous and effective methods, and the idea of 'evidence' as universally uncontested, proven and removed from teacher professional judgement. The final years of the corpus demonstrate a marked increase in attention to 'evidence-based' and 'what works' approaches, in parallel with reference to knowledge brokers and other private interests. Within this push for 'what works', we identified a growing emphasis on outsourcing traditional teacher-led activities, such as lesson planning and curriculum work, as frequently advocated by private interests, intermediary organisations and knowledge brokers, positioning the notion of 'evidence-based' as a silver bullet for a number of problems, including teacher shortages.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147950066","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}

{"title":"Youth voices in the built environment: a comparative study of Youth Participatory Action Research advocacy.","authors":"Kathryn Y Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Erin Rose Ellison","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000090","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Young people are directly affected by built environment decisions but are rarely included in formal planning or policy making. Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) offers a mechanism for youth to generate localized evidence intended to inform policy and practice. However, little is known about how youth-generated research evidence (URE) is taken up in built environment decision-making contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This comparative case study examines two YPAR initiatives: the Nashville Youth Design Team (NYDT), a high school research and design internship in Nashville, Tennessee, and Photovoice at the Creek (PAC), an afterschool photovoice program with 4th-6th graders in Northern California. Data sources included semi-structured interviews, ethnographic fieldnotes, and head-notes from extended engagement. Analysis involved within-case thematic analysis, cross-case synthesis, and team-based consensus building.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Across both cases, URE was used conceptually, processually, tactically/symbolically, and occasionally instrumentally. Conceptual use was most common, as youth reframed issues and challenged deficit narratives. Process use emerged as youth developed civic agency and adults adapted practices. Tactical/symbolic use increased visibility and legitimacy of youth priorities. Instrumental use appeared primarily in the Nashville case, where sustained partnerships enabled direct application. Differences highlight the role of age, institutional positioning, policy proximity, and relational infrastructure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings extend URE frameworks by showing how relational and structural dynamics shape whether youth-generated evidence is recognized and acted upon. Designing YPAR with attention to these dynamics can strengthen near-term impacts and support more inclusive built environment policy over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"374-401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147857753","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}

{"title":"Developing a comprehensive framework for Real-World Evidence in regulatory decisions: global lessons with applications for the Global South.","authors":"David Díaz-Báez, Juan Camilo Tocora, Hernan Felipe Guillen-Burgos, Carlos Felipe Escobar, Laura Angélica Pineda, Fabio Sierra-Matamoros, Andrés Cardona-Mendoza","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000088","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The integration of Real-World Evidence (RWE) into regulatory frameworks has gained global interest to complement traditional clinical data, particularly where randomized controlled trials may be limited. RWE refers to clinical evidence derived from the analysis of Real-World Data (RWD), including information routinely collected from sources such as electronic health records, claims databases and registries. The increasing reliance on large-scale digital data also raises challenges related to privacy, inclusivity and equity, highlighting the need for transparent and socially responsible approaches. This study developed a consensus-based framework for incorporating RWE into regulatory decision-making in Colombia, with potential applications in similar Global South contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A two-phase design was applied. Phase I was a scoping review following Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines to identify RWE frameworks and guidelines. Searches in databases and regulatory agencies yielded 61 relevant documents. In Phase II, an expert panel of ten professionals in RWE, RWD, and regulation refined preliminary recommendations through a modified Delphi approach, reaching consensus on their applicability.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The scoping review revealed a high concentration of RWE studies originating from the United States and Europe, highlighting contributions by agencies such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in guiding RWE for regulatory decisions, particularly in oncology and rare diseases. The expert panel validated 25 recommendations, grouped into six clusters addressing selection, transparency, stakeholder engagement, analytical validation, accessibility and capacity.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>This framework guides Colombia and the Global South in strengthening evidence-based regulation. It emphasizes governance, transparency, inclusivity and privacy safeguards, supporting equitable decision-making aligned with international standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-45"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147857768","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}

{"title":"Shelby County Youth Council: intergenerational insights from a youth participatory action research project with local government.","authors":"Caitlin Caswell, Shakira Braden, Aditi Dube, Simone Guyton, Shreeya Iyengar, Oli Knapp, Corrinne McClure, Carrington Oliver, Cinthia Torres, Maura Young","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000089","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"484-499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147788952","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}

{"title":"From pilot to policy: using critical participatory action research to build youth power and economic inclusion for young people with experience in foster care.","authors":"Mica Baum-Tuccillo, María Elena Torre, Maya Tellman, LaTroya Lovell, T'Coy Adams, Ellenie Liang, Denice Ocana, Grace Tatom, Mya Martinez, Julia L Davis, José Pérez","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000087","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Over the past decade, unconditional cash transfer pilots have proliferated across the United States. Many are designed as top-down policy 'experiments' that rely on narrow definitions of validity, privileging randomized controlled trials and decontextualized outcome measures. In youth policy and child welfare contexts, such approaches risk epistemological violence by devaluing lived experience, denying resources to communities, relying on reductive variables and reproducing dominant narratives of deservingness.</p><p><strong>Aims and methods: </strong>This article examines YouthNPower: Transforming Care, a pilot designed by and for young people with experience in the child welfare system that provided US$1,000 per month for one year to 100 youth who aged out of foster care and was accompanied by research, organizing and policy engagement. Rooted in a critical participatory action research (CPAR) framework and using a mixed-methods design, the study drew on surveys, interviews and focus groups to document impact while resisting extractive research logics and exclusionary hierarchies of evidence.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Findings indicate that unconditional cash stabilized housing, supported education, employment and wellbeing, and increased participants' sense of agency. At the same time, the research documented the limits of cash alone within conditions of structural precarity. Participatory methods also surfaced how dominant policy myths about irresponsibility and dependency are contradicted by youth's financial decision-making under constraint.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>YouthNPower demonstrates how CPAR can intervene in evidence-based policy making by strengthening epistemological accountability, redistributing epistemic authority, widening what counts as evidence, and positioning policy research as a site of collective struggle rather than post hoc evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"331-349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147788910","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}

{"title":"How youth reference groups can contribute to amplify research findings to public discussions and potentially improve policy making.","authors":"Lucas Walsh, Mark Rickinson, Blake Cutler, Joanne Gleeson","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000085","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) can amplify youth voices in public discourse and policy making, drawing on a case study of young Australians collaborating with academic researchers to analyse survey and interview data for the Australian Youth Barometer. At its core was a Youth Reference Group (YRG), which moved beyond tokenistic consultation by engaging directly in data analysis and knowledge production. In 2022, the YRG co-analysed survey data (n=505) and interviews (n=30), interrogating the finding that nearly half of young people felt they were 'missing out on being young'. The process produced a co-authored report combining statistical evidence, lived experience and critical reflection, which attracted significant national and international media coverage. The article applies the Quality Use of Research Evidence (QURE) Framework to assess enablers and constraints of youth engagement as evidence users. Youth researchers brought valuable lived experience, curiosity and commitment, but needed support in data and media literacy, access to academic literature and sustained time investment. Power-sharing between academic and youth researchers was facilitated but limited by institutional timelines, funding and differing skillsets. Organisational supports, collaborative infrastructures and media strategies enhanced dissemination, yet inequitable remuneration and limited diversity risked reproducing exclusions. Using the QURE Framework as a lens, the article argues that quality evidence use in YPAR can promote young people as active interpreters and users of evidence, supported by enabling ecosystems of resources, skills and collaboration. It provides an approach to improved authentic youth partnership in knowledge production and more inclusive policy making.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"423-441"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147534540","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}

{"title":"Enabling interactive knowledge mobilisation through the positive deviance (PD) approach for youth inclusion in Norway.","authors":"Mette Sønderskov, Ingjerd Thon Hagaseth, Arvind Singhal","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Knowledge mobilisation concerns translating knowledge into action and bridging the gap between knowledge production and its apt utilisation in practice. Scholars have called for more interactive models that integrate different forms of knowledge through iterative collaboration among diverse actors. However, insights on how such interactive models function in practice are scarce. This article addresses this gap by examining how knowledge is mobilised during implementation of the positive deviance (PD) approach, a problem-solving approach involving diverse actors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The article draws on an in-depth qualitative case study of a cross-sectoral project in six Norwegian municipalities, where PD was applied to address youth marginalisation. Data were generated through iterative PD processes involving practitioners, managers and stakeholders across sectors. Insights were gleaned on PD as an interactive strategy for knowledge mobilisation.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The findings show that PD enabled the identification and amplification of locally embedded practices, facilitated cross-sector collaboration, and contributed to shifts in participants' understandings of problems and solutions. Rather than relying on external expert knowledge, PD supported practice-driven learning and adaptive responses, resulting in interventions being perceived as more context-sensitive and sustainable.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusions: </strong>The article argues that PD represents a promising strategy for interactive knowledge mobilisation by reconfiguring the relationship between evidence, policy and practice. It contributes to debates on co-creation and knowledge use by demonstrating how practice-based knowledge can act as a driver of change. Certain limitations related to institutional scalability are discussed. The findings have implications for research, policy and practice addressing complex social challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147492078","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}

{"title":"An academic-legislative partnership for evidence-based policy: the California State Policy Evidence Consortium (CalSPEC).","authors":"Richard L Kravitz, Heather Walters, Katrine Padilla, Lawrence Lingbloom, Garen Corbett, Dominique Ritley","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147491656","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}

{"title":"Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): increasing evidence use and policy impact through an online data dashboard.","authors":"Brian Villa, Emily J Ozer, Devin Corrigan, Allison Firestone, Susan Stone","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000083","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To address research-practice gaps, scholars are investigating the conditions that strengthen and constrain the use of research evidence. Yet these studies primarily focus on evidence that adult researchers have generated. In Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), youth learn to conduct systematic research to improve their schools and communities. However, youth researchers face challenges similar to those experienced by adult researchers around how their findings are disseminated and used.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This article illustrates active efforts of a research-practice partnership between San Francisco Unified School District and UC Berkeley to scale the impact and use of YPAR evidence. We detail the development and testing of a districtwide dashboard as a method for disseminating YPAR evidence to K-12 students and district leaders. We describe the origins and motivation for the dashboard concept, the development process, early impact and benefits, implementation challenges, and future directions.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Through the development and testing of the dashboard, ethical and political implications emerged. We describe tensions related to dashboard content, privacy and confidentiality, use, and impact.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The dashboard is one method designed to strengthen the use and impact of youth-generated evidence from YPAR. Implementation challenges that arose during the development phase required us to strategise about responsibly and effectively disseminating YPAR evidence. As of December 2025, we have moved into a beta testing phase for the dashboard. A forthcoming public launch will bring new insights to district leaders in San Francisco, with potential replication across the state and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"463-483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147460918","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}