Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research

Schöll, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2021.102881

Cited by 16 publications

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“…On the other hand, some of the benefits of SCALE 3D may be less pronounced where practitioners are more accustomed to working with evaluation frameworks. • • Finally this study also did not address the question of power in evaluation (Guijt, 2010;Kaiser, 2021;Struminska-Kutra and Scholl, 2021). This relates to the role of funders and other stakeholders vis-a-vis the project team, and the roles within a team, in shaping goals and deciding what should be measured and how, when and why to adapt strategies and what meaning to ascribe to monitoring data.…”

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confidence: 98%

Applying SCALE 3D for evaluating transformative social innovation

Strasser,

de Kraker

2023

Evaluation

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Conventional evaluation and strategy approaches insufficiently address the needs of social innovation to adapt to non-linear and emergent change processes. This study addresses this shortcoming by testing a recently developed conceptual framework (3D) for the purpose of adaptive strategy and evaluation. We translated the 3D framework into a practice tool (SCALE 3D [Strategic Capacity development, Leadership and Evaluation in 3 Dimensions]) and applied it in two projects and four workshop settings through an action-research approach, involving networks of community-led sustainability initiatives. We describe practical benefits and suggest process steps for implementing SCALE 3D, as well as overall lessons learnt. We discuss how SCALE 3D can support transformation-oriented networks in alignment with adaptive strategy and evaluation approaches, to support strategic learning as well as reporting, and thereby help practitioners adapt to emerging changes and be accountable to funders. Our findings are relevant for evaluators, action researchers, strategy consultants, funders and social innovation practitioners supporting transformative networks.

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Section: Methodological Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Applying SCALE 3D for evaluating transformative social innovation

Strasser,

de Kraker

2023

Evaluation

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“…This is complemented by the idea finding stage, where the identification of different solutions is favoured by the multi-stakeholder character of the methodology. Indeed, local actors involved may contribute significantly to all phases, given their in-depth knowledge of the context, even though problems of power asymmetry may arise and are often neglected (Strumińska-Kutra and Scholl, 2022). The acceptance finding phase is explicitly action-oriented, where the best solutions are chosen, and possibly tested and implemented.…”

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Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative

Giovannini¹,

Forno²

2023

JEOD

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The food system nowadays has proven to be unsustainable from the ecological and social points of view and the need of supporting food security and sustainability through local, short-supply chain food systems is manifest. Against this background, several municipalities all over the world have started to establish multi-stakeholder collaborative roundtables to sustain participatory mechanisms directed to design new sustainable urban food strategies. Their main objective is to make Civic Food Networks (such as farmers' markets, solidarity purchasing groups, communitysupported agriculture, local physical and online food hubs, box schemes) accessible to larger sectors of the population. In this contribution, we discuss preliminary research results on Nutrire Trento ("Feeding Trento"), a local sustainable food initiative, similar to a food council, through a living lab approach inscribed in a Transdisciplinary Action Research methodology, in order to analyse its potentialities as well as its critical aspects.

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“…Power relationships have significant impact on capacity development and on the links between research, policy and practice [23]. The multidisciplinary research approach has played a key role in the production of quality evidence of the complexity demand by policy [24], and has enhanced the engagement of various actors [25,26]. Translation of evidence to policy needs collaboration among multidisciplinary scholars; collaboration between researchers and community representatives from diverse background and lay perspectives, and collaboration among community organizations across local, state, national, and international levels [24,27,28].…”

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Challenges for research uptake for health policymaking and practice in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

Semahegn,

Manyazewal,

Hanlon

et al. 2023

Health Res Policy Sys

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Background An estimated 85% of research resources are wasted worldwide, while there is growing demand for context-based evidence-informed health policymaking. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), research uptake for health policymaking and practice is even lower, while little is known about the barriers to the translation of health evidence to policy and local implementation. We aimed to compile the current evidence on barriers to uptake of research in health policy and practice in LMICs using scoping review. Methods The scoping review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses-extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and the Arksey and O'Malley framework. Both published evidence and grey literature on research uptake were systematically searched from major databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL (EBSCO), Global Health (Ovid)) and direct Google Scholar. Literature exploring barriers to uptake of research evidence in health policy and practice in LMICs were included and their key findings were synthesized using thematic areas to address the review question. Results A total of 4291 publications were retrieved in the initial search, of which 142 were included meeting the eligibility criteria. Overall, research uptake for policymaking and practice in LMICs was very low. The challenges to research uptake were related to lack of understanding of the local contexts, low political priority, poor stakeholder engagement and partnership, resource and capacity constraints, low system response for accountability and lack of communication and dissemination platforms. Conclusion Important barriers to research uptake, mainly limited contextual understanding and low participation of key stakeholders and ownership, have been identified. Understanding the local research and policy context and participatory evidence production and dissemination may promote research uptake for policy and practice. Institutions that bridge the chasm between knowledge formation, evidence synthesis and translation may play critical role in the translation process.

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Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research

Cited by 16 publications

References 50 publications

Applying SCALE 3D for evaluating transformative social innovation

Applying SCALE 3D for evaluating transformative social innovation

Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative

Challenges for research uptake for health policymaking and practice in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

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