Workshop: Enhancing Scientists' Capacities for Catalyzing Policy Innovation

研讨会：增强科学家促进政策创新的能力

• 批准号: 1446218
• 负责人: Angela Evans
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Enhancing; Scientists; Capacities; Catalyzing

The social and behavioral sciences create knowledge that has significant potential for producing societal benefit. Scientific understanding of people's behavior during hurricanes, floods, and other natural disaster has, for example, led to the development of safer evacuation procedures, while studies of how children learn have helped improve education policy. However, the mechanisms by which such knowledge makes its way into public policy contexts are not fully understood. In an era of increasingly complex policy challenges, defined and acted upon by a diverse and wide-ranging set of stakeholders (e.g. legislators, public administrators, and community leaders), the successful transfer of scientific knowledge requires an in-depth understanding of policy development and implementation. Understanding the interactions between science and policy will help governments and communities better leverage scientific discoveries into beneficial policy innovations. Building on the findings from a previous workshop titled "Catalyzing Discovery for Social Impact: Exploring the Power of the Research-Academic-Policy Nexus to Stimulate Policy Innovation," this workshop will explore, in particular, the role of entrepreneurial scientists in facilitating the exchange of knowledge between science and policy. Social and behavioral scientists are often not trained in how to transfer their knowledge into the public sector. Therefore, a major element of this challenge is identifying and developing the necessary skill sets social scientists need to help catalyze the transformation of their research into practical application. This workshop will convene a dynamic group of the nation's top researchers, thought leaders, and curriculum developers who are actively studying or writing about the challenges posed by the creation and sustainability of strong academic-research-policy relationships. Utilizing participatory action methods and drawing on participants' expertise and experience, this workshop will collaboratively build a skills inventory and a curriculum to build such skills.

社会和行为科学创造的知识具有产生社会效益的巨大潜力。例如，对人们在飓风、洪水和其他自然灾害期间的行为的科学理解有助于制定更安全的疏散程序，而对儿童如何学习的研究有助于改善教育政策。然而，这些知识进入公共政策环境的机制尚不完全清楚。在一个政策挑战日益复杂的时代，由多元化和广泛的利益相关者（例如立法者、公共行政人员和社区领导者）定义和采取行动，科学知识的成功转移需要对政策制定和实施的深入了解。了解科学与政策之间的相互作用将有助于政府和社区更好地将科学发现转化为有益的政策创新。 基于之前题为“促进社会影响的发现：探索研究-学术-政策关系刺激政策创新的力量”研讨会的研究结果，本次研讨会将特别探讨创业科学家在促进科学与政策之间知识交流方面的作用。 社会和行为科学家通常没有接受过如何将其知识转移到公共部门的培训。 因此，这一挑战的一个主要因素是确定和发展社会科学家所需的必要技能，以帮助促进他们的研究转化为实际应用。 该研讨会将召集一个由美国顶尖研究人员、思想领袖和课程开发人员组成的充满活力的小组，他们正在积极研究或撰写有关建立和维持强大的学术-研究-政策关系所带来的挑战的文章。 本次研讨会将利用参与式行动方法并利用参与者的专业知识和经验，共同构建技能清单和课程来培养此类技能。