Co‐creating knowledge, policy, and practice: A call to advance Water Policy Lab process

The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the labour market is not likely to be achieved through the tried and tested ways of developing knowledge, policy and practice. Rather, we propose a different approach to generating and exchanging the necessary knowledge for developing active employment policy and practice. As an alternative to the evidence-based knowledge paradigm, we set up a model for knowledge production that is made through co-operation between practice and research. This model investigates the potential for integrated services and for co-production by acknowledging the importance of the experiences of frontline professionals and clients in developing employment services.

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Research for Action: Cross‐national perspectives on connecting knowledge, policy and practice for children

Journal of Children s Services ◽

10.1108/17466660201000008 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 63-64

Author(s):

Jacqueline Barnes

Keyword(s):

Policy And Practice ◽

Knowledge Policy ◽

Cross National

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Designing transdisciplinary projects for collaborative policy-making: The Integration and Implementation Sciences framework as a tool for reflection

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society ◽

10.14512/gaia.29.3.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 170-175

Author(s):

Melissa Robson-Williams ◽

Bruce Small ◽

Roger Robson-Williams

Keyword(s):

Water Policy ◽

Policy Making ◽

Practice Change ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Transdisciplinary Research ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Community Values ◽

Project Completion ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Environmental Limits

Collaborative policy-making has increased in New Zealand, and with it has brought new demands for supporting research. As a tool for reflection of projects where both research and societal outcomes of policy and practice change are pursued and multiple knowledges are recognised, we use the Integration and Implementation Sciences framework. We present insights for the design and implementation of transdisciplinary research from the Selwyn Waihora Project, which aimed to produce socially robust information to support land and water policy-making in New Zealand’s South Island.The Selwyn Waihora Project was a research project supporting a collaborative policy-making process to set environmental limits in the Selwyn Waihora catchment in New Zealand’s South Island. In this Design Report we reflect on this project based on data collected from a range of project participants approximately two years after project completion. The data collection was guided by the Integration and Implementation Sciences framework (i2S). On the basis of participant responses, and the authors’ first-hand experiences working on the project, we present insights for transdisciplinary research. Through the questions asked by the i2S framework insights emerged on: what it means to honour community values; the importance of context but that projects can pay too much attention to it; boundary objects to foster integration across multiple knowledge systems; the value of intra-team narratives for translation; the importance of considering the losers of the research; and sharing the burden of uncertainty.

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