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Diverse forms of knowledge and evidence

Evidence is “the six-stone weakling of the policy world” … confronted by … “the four-hundred pound brute called politics” (Ray Pawson). Research & evaluation reports Audit & inspection findings/data Routine monitoring data, stats and PIs Local & international exemplars Costings data.

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Diverse forms of knowledge and evidence

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  1. Evidence is “thesix-stone weakling of the policy world” … confronted by … “the four-hundredpound brute called politics” (Ray Pawson)

  2. Research & evaluation reports Audit & inspection findings/data Routine monitoring data, stats and PIs Local & international exemplars Costings data Client & user experience data Expert views & insider knowledge Surveys, opinion polls & stakeholders consultations System capacity data Models & forecasts Diverse forms of knowledge and evidence

  3. Many active players in policy networks University and college researchers Research institutes and independent evaluators Think tanks and knowledge brokers Media Government analysts Professional bodies Audit, inspection and scrutiny regimes Lobbyists and advocacy groups Politicians Civil servants Loc govt officers Political advisors Service providers Service users Wider community Challenge of opening up to many voices, loosening control, tolerating diverse views on ‘evidence’…

  4. A B C F D E What image best represents how you think about the main challenges?

  5. Improving evidence use: addressing supply, demand, and that in between Improving stocks or reservoirs of evidence-based knowledge Research translation, knowledge management and knowledge pools, research brokering and boundary spanning, co-location, secondments and role cycling, partnerships of all kinds, sustained interactivity… Increasing demand in political and professional worlds, and wider society

  6. Addressing that in between • The importance of context • Interaction with other types of knowledge (tacit; experiential) • Multi-voiced dialogue • ‘Use’ as a process not an event Moving away from ideas of ‘packaging’ knowledge and enabling knowledge transfer – recognising instead:

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