Evidence-based service delivery and development requires full range of interactions and connections with research. To help expand understanding of how research makes an impact Sarah Morton draws from her extensive research into how different types of evidence are used to develop and improve key services. Research might raise awareness of an issue, change people’s knowledge or understanding of an issue, challenge attitudes, perceptions or ideas. Research use doesn’t just mean an instrumental application of research to policy or practice. It means a whole range of interactions and connections between researchers, and those interested in research from policy, practice or members of the public. Evidence-based policy and practice and knowledge mobilization are frequently used terms, but what are the key challenges in using research to develop and improve services for children and families?
I drew on my 12 years experiences of leading knowledge exchange at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships based at the University of Edinburgh, with partners across Scottish Universities. Au coeur de la cliodynamique (2/2) : le rôle de la coopération. Par Rémi Sussan le 23/04/13 | 1 commentaire | 1,346 lectures | Impression Les thèses de Peter Turchin, loin de se contenter d’analyser les cycles historiques, reposent sur l’importance de la coopération entre individus. Pour désigner celle-ci, Turchin emploie un mot du philosophe arabe médiéval Ibn Kaldhun, l’asabiya qu’on peut traduire par la coopération ou la “cohésion sociale”. Les empires en expansion possèdent une forte asabiya, qui devient faible chez ceux qui connaissent une phase de déclin. Mais une fois de plus, méfions-nous de l’angélisme lié au mot de coopération.
Dans un précédent article, on a vu que le collectif des sauterelles se constituait par le cannibalisme existant entre ses membres. Mais pourquoi constate-t-on accroissement des inégalités ? Les fondements comportementaux de l’asabiya Cette notion de “conscience collective” va contre l’idée classique des humains considérée comme des agents rationnels poursuivant leur intérêt propre. Les limites de la cliodynamique. Au coeur de la cliodynamique (1/2) : les cycles historiques. Par Rémi Sussan le 17/04/13 | 13 commentaires | 1,466 lectures | Impression Il y a quelque temps, dans un article sur les long data, j’évoquais la “cliodynamique“, un mouvement cherchant à repérer des modèles numériques dans l’histoire des civilisations créée par Peter Turchin, un spécialiste de l’écologie.
Aujourd’hui, un papier de Wired donne un nouvel éclairage sur ce champ de recherches et sur la méthodologie employée. Le texte est signé Klint Finley. Il est intéressant de noter cette signature parmi les journalistes de Wired. Car si Finley n’a pas la célébrité d’un Chris Thompson, d’un Kevin Kelly ou d’un Alexis Madrigal, il ne sort pas du néant. Depuis 10 ans, il tient le blog Technoccult (qui figure dans mon “top 10″ personnel de la blogosphère), étonnant mélange de technologie et contre-culture, très proche de mouvements contestataires comme le fameux “Occupy Wall Street”.
Finley se concentre sur la principale découverte de Turchin, l’idée du “cycle séculaire”. Et aujourd’hui ? Social Polis. How It Works. Distributed Authority Holacracy is a distributed authority system – a set of “rules of the game” that bake empowerment into the core of the organization. Unlike conventional top-down or progressive bottom-up approaches, it integrates the benefits of both without relying on parental heroic leaders. Everyone becomes a leader of their roles and a follower of others’, processing tensions with real authority and real responsibility, through dynamic governance and transparent operations.
Related reading: Blog post: Empowerment is Dead; Long Live Empowerment Related reading: The Holacracy Constitution: the actual rules of Holacracy Processing Tensions Holacracy harnesses the conscious capacity of those within to sense dissonance between what is (current reality) and what could be (the purpose): the feeling of a “tension”. When there’s lack of clear and effective channels for processing tensions, they fester into frustrations, burn-out, and disengagement. Governance & Governance Meetings. La valorisation des SHS - AvalorisationSHS. UTM - MSHS-T - Expertise et compétence des chercheurs en Sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) Cécile Fabre, Linguiste informaticienne, Maître de conférence dans le laboratoire Cognition Langues Langage Ergonomie (CLLE) Comment peut-on utiliser les compétences d’un linguiste informaticien ?
Le linguiste informaticien intervient pour mettre en place, évaluer, améliorer des dispositifs de traitement de données langagières par ordinateur, pour des objectifs applicatifs divers relevant du champ de l’ingénierie linguistique : recherche et extraction d’information, traduction automatique ou assistée, aide à la rédaction, gestion documentaire, analyse de contenu, traitement de la parole, etc.
SHSdocNET : portail de compétences et expertises | Institut des Sciences de l'Homme. Le portail SHSdocNET est développé par l’Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, en partenariat avec 36 laboratoires de recherche en SHS du Pôle de Recherche et d’Enseignement Supérieur de Lyon et St-Etienne. >> Portail SHSdocNET>> SHSdocNET : présentation du projet (pdf) Genèse Le projet SHSdocNET a été lancé à la suite d’un besoin exprimé par des acteurs à la fois locaux et nationaux de disposer d’un moyen rapide pour identifier les compétences en SHS dans un espace donné.
C’est initialement le PRES de Lyon-Saint-Etienne qui l’a exprimé. Mais c’est à la demande de l’Université Lyon 2, appuyé par un financement Bonus Qualité Recherche que le projet a pu démarrer. Cette problématique qui vise à cartographier les compétences scientifiques fait également l’objet d’un intérêt grandissant auprès des acteurs internationaux et des grandes sociétés comme Microsoft avec son projet Academia et d’autres projets bien avancés comme LinkedIn ou ResearchGate.
Besoins visés Usagers du portail Technologie utilisée. SHSdocNET : portail de compétences et expertises | Institut des Sciences de l'Homme. The creation of a new service to unlock research expertise – and you hold the key | The Alliance for Useful Evidence. A new evidence matchmaking service for politicians and researchers was launched this week. Dr Chris Chambers explains in this guest blog how the new initiative will connect the collective expertise of UK research professionals, with UK politicians and civil servants; in order to develop a UK Evidence Information Service, EIS. Stop for a moment and ask, how many scientists and researchers in the UK contribute to policy making? It’s a difficult question to answer, but the numbers are not high. Less than 5% of UK academics work annually with the Government Office for Science, and most researchers we know play no role whatsoever in the political process aside from casting the occasional vote. This divide raises some challenging questions.
In times of austerity, and faced with global challenges such as climate change, energy supply, and public health, are our evidence-based policies fully informed about the state of knowledge? Co-founders of the Evidence Information Service: Consortium de Validation Thématique en Sciences Humaines et Sociales. What do policymakers want from researchers? Blogs, elevator pitches and good old fashioned press mentions.
Duncan Green provides short and sweet translations of some of the key findings from a recent survey looking at how US policymakers use and value international studies research. The findings point to the importance of blogging, but also to the sustained influence of traditional print media. The future of evidence-informed networks may require a more engaged look at what policymakers are actually looking for. Interesting survey of US policymakers in December’s International Studies Quarterly journal. I’m not linking to it because it’s gated, thereby excluding more or less everyone outside a traditional academic institution (open data anyone?)
But here’s a draft of What Do Policymakers Want From Us? , by Paul Avey and Michael Desch. The results are as relevant to NGO advocacy people trying to influence governments as they are to scholars. Translation: the more policymakers know about a subject, the less they believe ‘experts’ Source: Avey and Desch (2014). Translation: get blogging, people. Social researchers must continue to engage in the systematic exploration of the world as it is and as it could be. How researchers and the state understand the scope of social research plays a pivotal role in the future of impact. Geoff Mulgan argues society at large – the public, researchers and the government – must all adapt their practices to take evidence seriously and to take part in policy implementation. Social researchers are in a unique position as they are required to be engaged with power, but remain ultimately accountable to the public not the state. There are two competing traditions of social research.
In one tradition it is an arm of the state, concerned with mapping and measuring society the better to shape it. The word statistics reflects this (Prussian) origin. Image credit: The Boston Library (no known restrictions) The other tradition runs in the opposite direction. Is a synthesis of these possible? But that will require the parties to social research to change. About the Author. GtR. The contemporary social sciences are now converging strongly with STEM disciplines in the study of ‘human-dominated systems’ and ‘human-influenced systems’ Much less is known about the development of the social sciences as a complete discipline group than about the previously dominant STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) discipline group. Patrick Dunleavy, Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler set out some key findings from their new book ‘The Impacts of the Social Sciences’, identifying five key trends that are causing the old social sciences versus physical science divide to dissolve.
With the advent of ‘big data’ and e-science across the board, the social sciences are converging strongly on a ‘rapid advance/moderate consensus’ model previously characteristic only of the STEM disciplines. One of the most surprising things we learnt in our latest research project was how little has ever been written in a systematic way about the social sciences as a whole. Of course, the ‘chaos of the disciplines’ (that Andrew Abbott wrote about) is amply documented in hundreds of histories of this or that individual academic subject. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University. Community Capitals This page includes resources, calendar items, publications and archives related to the Community Capitals Framework (CCF). Both the Center and a number of our partners now use the CCF to map strategies and impact and in our evaluation, research, and outreach efforts. Cornelia and Jan Flora (2008) developed the Community Capitals Framework as an approach to analyze how communities work.
Based on their research to uncover characteristics of entrepreneurial and sustainable communities, they found that the communities most successful in supporting healthy sustainable community and economic development paid attention to all seven types of capital: natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial and built.
In addition to identifying the capitals and the role each plays in community economic development, this approach also focuses on the interaction among these seven capitals as well as how investments in one capital can build assets in others. Calendar. The Civic Function of the Arts & Humanities | Jason M. Kelly. “The Civic Function of the Arts and Humanities (Roundtable)”College of Arts and Humanities Institute, IU Bloomington18 November, 5pm There was never a golden age of the arts and humanities. Artists and scholars of the humanities seem to have always struggled for financial support, public prestige, political influence, and that ever-changing, seemingly intangible status . . . relevance.
Except for the fortunate few who found generous patrons, artists have scrapped and struggled. Except in the halls of church and university — in the courts of kings and academies of nobles — humanists have rarely found accolades or wealth. Already in the 1st-century CE, the Roman satirist Juvenal complained of the disrespect and poverty of poets, historians, actors, rhetoricians, musicians and teachers: Some of us have benefitted from the establishment of liberal arts colleges, which followed the model of Harvard College established in 1636. Glenn Seaborg and John F. The act itself stated that. Metodologías. Humanidades digitales. Cátedra Datos. ¿Cómo definir a las humanidades digitales?
Reinventing Social Sciences in the Era of Big Data. 99 Flares Twitter 57 Facebook 13 Google+ 13 Buffer 16 Filament.io 99 Flares × Sune Lehmann is an Associate Professor at DTU Informatics, Technical University of Denmark. In the past, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeasthern University; before that, he was at Laszlo Barabási’s Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University and the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. I wouldn’t call him stupid. He is okay. Tickets for the #projectwaalhalla Social Sciences for Startups are for sale.
This time, let’s begin at the beginning, before we dive in deeper. But what are you aiming for, and how are you going to get there? My (humble) research goal is to reinvent social sciences in the age of big data. But when you start thinking about the network, you run into problems. And it gets worse. Dynamic networks. Okay, great. Five minutes with Prabhakar Raghavan: Big data and social science at Google. Part of PPG’s Impact of Social Sciences project focuses on how academic research in the social sciences influences decision-makers in business, government and civil society. We will cover a series of salient viewpoints emerging from this interview programme on the blog over the next three months. To launch the series Rebecca Mann talked to Prabhakar Raghavan, who is Vice President of Strategic Technologies at Google, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He explains the role that social scientists are already playing in the development of the tech sector in Silicon Valley, and discusses the opportunities for impact and some remaining obstacles to collaboration.
What is the opportunity for social scientists in the high tech sector? Industry, and especially tech firms, now has a view into the lives of billions of people and their daily actions, at a scale and granularity that we did not historically have. Where can we count successes so far? El valor y el reto de la ciencia de la complejidad - SciDev.Net América Latina y el Caribe.
Nuevo y convincente libro sugiere la necesidad de una revolución científica en la práctica asistencial, aunque hay retos. La cooperación ha tenido algunos éxitos al haber contribuido a sacar de la pobreza a mil millones de personas en las pasadas dos décadas. Pero cuantificar esa contribución es más complicado. Y ahora el desafío es cómo sostenerla y llegar a los siguientes mil millones que se debaten incluso en más pobreza que los primeros beneficiarios. Ben Ramalingam, investigador del desarrollo, sostiene que la cooperación no logrará este objetivo sin un replanteamiento fundamental. Su libro Ayuda al borde del caos, (Aid on the Edge of Chaos) publicado la semana pasada, detalla este razonamiento de una manera convincente. Su documentación sobre los fracasos de la ayuda y sus preguntas sobre algunos éxitos —como la erradicación de la viruela— es impresionante. “Ramalingam ha propiciado un debate crucial sobre el uso de la ciencia en el desarrollo”.Nick Ishmael Perkins.
De l’importance de l’ethnographie appliquée aux technologies.