When Researchers Successfully Engaged Policymakers

Bogenschneider, Karen; Corbett, Thomas

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“…There are various models of research use in public policy and practice which provide a useful basis for understanding the context and diverse motivations involved (for overviews of the literature, see Best & Holmes, 2010; Boaz et al., 2019; Bogenschneider & Corbett, 2010; Head, 2015; Oliver et al., 2014; Oliver & Boaz, 2019; Parkhurst, 2016). Carol Weiss’ (1979) influential and enduring typology outlines seven ways research is used in public policy: knowledge‐driven, problem‐solving, interactive, political, tactical, enlightenment, and mutually influential.…”

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“…Carol Weiss’ (1979) influential and enduring typology outlines seven ways research is used in public policy: knowledge‐driven, problem‐solving, interactive, political, tactical, enlightenment, and mutually influential. Similarly, Bogenschneider and Corbett (2010) found that U.S. policymakers use research for six key reasons: allocation of resources, tactics, policy solutions, framing, agenda‐setting, and awareness. Research is needed to help make good decisions, avoid making bad decisions, earn the respect of colleagues and constituents, and build support for proposed policies and legislation (Bogenschneider & Corbett, 2010, pp.…”

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“…A multidisciplinary systematic review found that only two interventions—improved communication of and access to research, and training in research skills—had a reliable impact on research use when combined with having the opportunity and motivation to use research (Langer et al., 2016, p. 1). Other research has identified barriers to research use in government, including the abilities of public officials to access and understand research and the limited time frames they have for searching and using research (Bédard & Ouimet, 2012; Bogenschneider & Corbett, 2010; Cherney et al., 2015; Greyson et al., 2012).…”

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Research use and publishing diversity: The role of organisation research publishing for policy and practice

Lawrence

2022

Aust J Public Adm

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Digital technologies have enhanced the capacity for organisations across many sectors to produce, publish, and disseminate research in a variety of formats, and a great deal of it is sought and used in public policy and practice‐related research, yet this diversity is often overlooked in studies of research use. While the need for diverse research sources and formats for public policy and practice is increasingly acknowledged, there have been few studies which articulate and categorise what this diversity looks like in practice, and how research is filtered and selected based on genre, source, and other facets. This article reports on a large‐scale online survey and semi‐structured interviews with research users across multiple sectors in Australia on the materials they access and use for policy and practice work. The results indicate that research users are active information seekers who require online access to diverse genres and formats produced by a range of sources and sectors. However, respondents also faced many barriers to research use, including the cost of subscriptions for academic journals, discoverability of reports and data, poor management of publications by organisations including government, and the time required for filtering and evaluation. Based on these findings I argue that policy research requires a far greater variety of genres and sources than is generally recognised with implications for the way research use and the research publishing system is understood and managed in Australia. Points for practitioners Policy research and implementation requires diverse online sources and resources from multiple sectors, including reports, discussion papers, evaluations, and data, produced by organisations (grey literature), as well as journals and books. However, this paper finds there are major barriers to discovery, filtering, and access to diverse research publications for practitioners, resulting in poor productivity and policy outcomes. To improve the use of evidence for policy and practice, we must invest in efficient discovery, access, and management systems for diverse research publications.

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Lawrence

2022

Aust J Public Adm

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“…This article explores in particular how storytelling can facilitate environmental science communication with policymakers. In addition to the anecdotal evidence above, recent studies suggest that policymakers respond particularly well to stories and storytelling above other forms of communication (Bogenschneider and Corbett 2010). There is a value therefore in exploring how environmental scientists might leverage storytelling practices already taking place, particularly in the field of climate change communication (Harris 2019, De Meyer et al 2020, Bloomfield and Manktelow 2021, for communication with policymakers.…”

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“…As the call for evidence-based policymaking gains momentum (Newcomer and Hart 2021), the need increases for policymakers to seek information from scientists and for scientists to listen to policymaker issues of focus and provide evidence. This interaction is difficult for scientists of any discipline (Bogenschneider andCorbett 2010, Druckman 2015). There are several obstacles to overcome, such as gaining and maintaining a policymaker's attention, supporting learning for a policymaker with little or no background on the subject, communicating uncertainty in a transparent and constructive manner, addressing or bypassing the politicization of the science, and overcoming motivated reasoning (Druckman 2015).…”

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‘The moral of the story is…’: telling your environmental research story to policymakers

Saylor

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent research suggests that bringing narrative to communication on environmental science may improve that communication’s effectiveness and motivate action. Policymakers need input from scientists in order to make informed, evidence-based decisions, and storytelling may serve as an excellent way to provide these policymakers with the science they need in an easy-to-digest format. In this perspective article, story elements, including setting, characters, plot, and moral, are explored as they relate to environmental science communication, often with regards to climates change. There are challenges to storytelling, and it is not always the right medium for environmental science communication, but it may prove very helpful when engaging policymakers.

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What makes a good educational research summary? A comparative judgement study of mathematics teachers' and mathematics education researchers' views

Rycroft-Smith

Stylianides

2022

Review of Education

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The field of knowledge brokering in educationaiming to better connect research to practice-is currently emerging. Evidence of a community dissonance between researchers and practitioners in education suggests that models of knowledge brokering that consider the perspectives and priorities of both groups are required. It is also a priority to identify what kinds of knowledge brokering products such as research summaries are successful at communicating research to teachers, potentially functioning as boundary objects. We report findings from a comparative judgement study where a group of 28 mathematics teachers and a group of 19 mathematics education researchers ranked twenty research summaries, from different sources, in terms of their success at communicating the research to teachers, and explained which features contributed to this ranking. Overall the findings suggest moderate consensus both within and between the two groups, and some important areas of difference. Both groups agreed that graphic design was the most important

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When Researchers Successfully Engaged Policymakers

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Research use and publishing diversity: The role of organisation research publishing for policy and practice

Research use and publishing diversity: The role of organisation research publishing for policy and practice

‘The moral of the story is…’: telling your environmental research story to policymakers

What makes a good educational research summary? A comparative judgement study of mathematics teachers' and mathematics education researchers' views

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