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2. Creating and communicating social research for policymakers in government
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Phoenix, Jessica H. (author), Atkinson, Lucy G. (author), and Baker, Hannah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-27
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13081
- Journal Title:
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- V.5, N.98
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Many academics ask ‘How can I use my research to influence policy?’. In this paper, we draw on our first-hand experience as social researchers for the British Government to advise how academics can create and communicate research with policymakers. Specifically, we describe methods of communicating research to policymakers in relation to research we undertook to listen to farmers about their priorities for a new agricultural policy for England following the exit of the UK from the European Union. The main purpose of this research was to ensure farmers’ voices were included in policy development and therefore communication of the research to policymakers was key. We reflect on the effectiveness of the communication methods we employed and summarise our learnings into four practical recommendations: (1) make research relevant to policymakers; (2) invest time to develop and maintain relationships with policymakers; (3) utilise ‘windows of opportunity’; and (4) adapt presentation and communication styles to the audience. We consider that employing these recommendations will help to improve how evidence is communicated between academia and government and therefore the influence of evidence in decision-making processes.
3. Information and communication technologies in Turkish agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sindir, Kamil Okyay (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26394
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(1): 49-53
- Notes:
- 5 p.
4. Reporting pesticide assessment results to farmworker families: Development, implementation, and evaluation of a risk communication strategy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rao, P.R.M. (author), Quandt, S.A. (author), Doran, A.M. (author), Hoppin, J.A. (author), Snively, B.M. (author), and Arcury, T.A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26393
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Journal Title Details:
- 112(5): 636-642
- Notes:
- 7 p.
5. The "cultivated urban gardens" role within the industrial renewal context: the case of Villeurbanne, France
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hernández H., Monica A. (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08820
- Notes:
- Pages 487-509 in Rob Roggema (ed.), Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume one: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 549 pages.
6. Transforming communication and knowledge production processes to address high-end climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tàbara, J. David (author), St. Clair, Asun Lera (author), and Hermansen, Erlend A.T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-01
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10272
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 70 : 31-37
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Recent GHG emissions trends are in stark contrast with the Paris Agreement’s target to hold the increase in average global warming to “well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to stay below 1,5 °C” by the end of the century compared with preindustrial times. This disconnect has further unveiled the limitations of current knowledge production and communication processes in Southern European countries, where fast institutional changes are needed to address the potential impacts as well as the opportunities for transformation derived from High-End Climate Change (HECC). The prevailing knowledge deficit-model – aimed at producing ‘more knowledge’ about climate impacts, vulnerabilities and long-term scenarios to decision makers – has long proven inadequate in tackling the many complexities of the present socio-climate quandary. The growing emphasis on assessing and implementing concrete solutions, demand new and more complex forms of agent interactions in the production, framing, communication and use of climate knowledge; and in particular, explicit procedures able to tackle difficult normative questions regarding assessment of solutions and the allocation of individual and collective responsibilities. To explore these challenges, we analyse the views of 30 Spanish knowledge contributors and users of the latest UN IPCC AR5 report and share the insights gained from the implementation of a participatory Integrated Assessment procedure aimed at developing innovative solutions to high-end climate scenarios in Iberia. Our analysis supports the view of the need to institutionalise transformation, and in particular underlines the potential role that transformative climate boundary organisations could play to address such difficult ethical choices in different contexts of action.