The Unmet Challenge of Connecting Scientific Research with Community Action

Seely, Mary; Klintenberg, Patrik; Kruger, A.S.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6970-3_58

“…Integration of traditional knowledge improved the understanding of scientists and the local community of the complex systems being investigated. By involving the local equivalent of a FIRM and ensuring information flow between community members and scientists, results can be used by all participants, for example (Seely, 1998;Seely et al, 2006Seely et al, , 2008. Moreover, as the research results are conveyed to different levels, communication pathways remain open by involving the FIRM and its members and service providers as possible.…”

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Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

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Fazey

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Stringer

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et al. 2011

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It is increasingly recognised that land degradation monitoring and assessment can benefit from incorporating multiple sources of knowledge, using a variety of methods at different scales, including the perspectives of researchers, land managers and other stakeholders. However, the knowledge and methods required to achieve this are often dispersed across individuals and organisations at different levels and locations. Appropriate knowledge management mechanisms are therefore required to more efficiently harness these different sources of knowledge and facilitate their broader dissemination and application. This paper examines what knowledge is, how it is generated and explores how it may be stored, transferred and exchanged between knowledge producers and users before it is applied to monitor and assess land degradation at the local scale. It suggests that knowledge management can also benefit from the development of mechanisms that promote changes in understanding and efficient means of accessing and/or brokering knowledge. Broadly, these processes for knowledge management can (i) help identify and share good practices and build capacity for land degradation monitoring at different scales and in different contexts and (ii) create knowledge networks to share lessons learned and monitoring data among and between different stakeholders, scales and locations. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The fields of science and healthcare have a particular problem translating research into practice. In their research on the decreasing productivity of degraded lands, for instance, Seely, Klintenberg and Kruger (2009) found that the extensive research on the subject is not usually accessible to the policy makers and community groups actually involved in addressing desertification and the degradation of drylands. Researchers Kerner and Hall (2009) conclude that such gaps are due at least in part to passive diffusion practices in the science community that tend to be limited to word of mouth or the publication of results in journals and books with limited circulation.…”

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Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

Fatima¹

2023

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Introduction: Universities have always focused on research, but the dissemination of research results beyond the scholarly community is often less of a priority (Armstrong, 2011) and poses serious challenges for scholars. Research is regularly published in books and in specialized scholarly journals, but both are expensive and often not readily available to the general public. The presentation of research papers at scholarly conferences is also problematic in that audiences tend to be limited to other scholars. Lack of ready access to upto-date research results means that individuals, communities and sometimes even government policy makers do not have the information they need for decision-making purposes. Moreover, students’ preoccupation with day-to-day studying and their focus on class-related work means they too are often unaware of advances in knowledge and the work professors do in their role as researchers in the academy. To address the challenge of making research results available to a wider audience, my Undergraduate Research Opportunity award focused on the creation of multimedia journalism stories for a research-focused website. Ryerson University School of Journalism professor

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Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

Fatima¹

2021

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Introduction: Universities have always focused on research, but the dissemination of research results beyond the scholarly community is often less of a priority (Armstrong, 2011) and poses serious challenges for scholars. Research is regularly published in books and in specialized scholarly journals, but both are expensive and often not readily available to the general public. The presentation of research papers at scholarly conferences is also problematic in that audiences tend to be limited to other scholars. Lack of ready access to upto-date research results means that individuals, communities and sometimes even government policy makers do not have the information they need for decision-making purposes. Moreover, students’ preoccupation with day-to-day studying and their focus on class-related work means they too are often unaware of advances in knowledge and the work professors do in their role as researchers in the academy. To address the challenge of making research results available to a wider audience, my Undergraduate Research Opportunity award focused on the creation of multimedia journalism stories for a research-focused website. Ryerson University School of Journalism professor

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The Unmet Challenge of Connecting Scientific Research with Community Action

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Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

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