Science shops as science–society interfaces

Mulder, Henk; Jørgensen, Michael Søgaard; Pricope, Laura; Steinhaus, Norbert; Valentin, Anke

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“…The European Commission (EC) funded several projects on Science Shops at this time. In the late 1990s, the movement spread in eastern and central Europe 3 and outside Europe to countries such as South Africa 5 …”

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Science Shops as key intermediary structures to respond to the current health research agenda bias: Evidence from the InSPIRES project

Estany,

Piro,

Broerse

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IntroductionTo increase the likelihood of research responding to societal needs, intermediary structures such as Science Shops are being created. Science Shops respond to research needs identified and prioritized through participatory processes involving civil society. However, these are not mainstream structures, and most research needs addressed by the scientific community are not defined by a diversity of stakeholders (including citizens) but are mostly prioritized by researchers and funders. Literature shows this often leads to bias between the research topics investigated and the research needs of other relevant stakeholders. This study analyses how 14 Science Shops contribute to decreasing bias in health research agenda setting.MethodologyWe compare the research priorities identified through participatory processes by the Science Shops, which participated in the European Union‐funded project InSPIRES (2017–2021), to the available research addressed in the literature (identified in Web of Science), which we use as a proxy for current research priorities.ResultsScience Shop projects contributed to decreasing the existing bias in health research agenda setting: (1) between drug and nondrug treatments and (2) between clinical trials of treatments for illnesses affecting high‐income versus middle‐ and low‐income countries, which leads to a lack of local strategies for high disease burdens in nonhigh‐income regions.ConclusionThis study provides the first evidence of Science Shops' effectiveness in addressing current biases in health research agenda setting. We conclude they could play a key role in shaping local, national and international research policies.

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Science Shops as key intermediary structures to respond to the current health research agenda bias: Evidence from the InSPIRES project

Estany,

Piro,

Broerse

et al. 2024

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“…An official definition of science shops characterizes them as an entity that "provides independent, participatory research support in response to concerns experienced by civil society" (Gnaiger and Martin, 2001:6;Mulder, Jørgensen, Pricope, Steinhaus and Valentin, 2006). When reading through the literature on science shops, we learn soon that in spite of their name they are actually neither 'shops' nor is 'science' to be understood exclusively in terms of natural sciences (which is how 'science' is usually understood in English): science shops usually offer citizen groups "free or low cost access to scientific or technical knowledge which will help them to achieve social or environmental improvement", and they "use the term science in its broadest sense, incorporating social and human sciences, arts, as well as natural, physical, engineering and technological sciences" (Mulder et al, 2006:279).…”

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Community-Based Research and the Democratization of Science and Technology. A Framework for the Evaluation of Science Shop Work

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Innovative Community‐Engaged Learning Projects: From Chemical Reactions to Community Interactions

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Science shops as science–society interfaces

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Science Shops as key intermediary structures to respond to the current health research agenda bias: Evidence from the InSPIRES project

Science Shops as key intermediary structures to respond to the current health research agenda bias: Evidence from the InSPIRES project

Community-Based Research and the Democratization of Science and Technology. A Framework for the Evaluation of Science Shop Work

Innovative Community‐Engaged Learning Projects: From Chemical Reactions to Community Interactions

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