Participatory Futures

GCRF挑战集群参与式未来直接解决了UKRI GCRF战略确定的公平获得可持续发展的挑战：“伙伴关系应该是透明的，并基于相互尊重……公平分配资源、责任、努力和利益……认识到不同的投入、不同的利益和不同的预期结果。”作为这一挑战领域的核心组成部分，拟议的集群希望通过强有力的全球伙伴关系确保各国之间共享创新和知识，以实现可持续发展目标17（目标伙伴关系）。在与发展相关的研究中，这一目标的代表性严重不足，但它却至关重要地支撑和决定着我们的研究和实践成果的质量、影响和可持续性。这个项目认识到有必要对我们所说的伙伴关系的含义、这些伙伴关系如何在发展实践中实施、以及我们如何学习并使研究界“更好地合作”进行批判性审查。在跨学科、跨界项目的报告和论文中，与伙伴关系工作的持续挑战有关的做法、紧张关系和经验在很大程度上被忽视了。使这一问题更加复杂的是，“投射”（在规划中不考虑研究或干预的长期影响的短期主义，以及负担过重的社区中的“研究疲劳”）的影响的证据，善意的研究和放弃和失败的倡议的意想不到的有害后果的例子，以及作为对西方主导发展性质的回应的后发展文献的兴起，继续积累。尽管全球北方的财富和能力日益增加，但南方人民仍然不成比例地遭受疾病、贫困、战争、饥荒和气候变化的折磨。我们走到一起，认识到伙伴关系和参与是所有GCRF的一个基本但复杂的组成部分。我们认为，如果在我们的研究基础上没有真正和公平的伙伴关系，研究的潜在影响、相关性和可持续性将永远受到限制或否定。伙伴关系不仅决定了研究的设计和实施，也决定了结果。由于创新是GCRF的一项要求，也是更广泛的研发工作的一部分，因此建立和维持成功和公平的伙伴关系是有利的，可以带来新的见解和观点，与难以接触到的国家和人口进行接触，为实现可持续影响带来新的可能性。通过将伙伴关系置于重要位置，参与式未来挑战集群将汇集GCRF研究的早期成功和公认的失败，以解决可持续发展中的公平问题。该项目由对已完成和正在进行的项目的关键见解和分析推动，并最终由对命题和解决方案的关注驱动。集群的第一阶段将包括：(1)集群项目的民族志，从公平、参与和影响的角度分析伙伴关系实践；(2)综合研究成果和产出；(3)以可访问的形式（书面报告、纪录片、媒体）开发框架和概念验证案例研究；(4)向国际主流研究的翻译、教育、影响和影响工具的过渡路径。这些输出预测了一个更大的项目（阶段2）的目标，该项目的重点是通过多个不同地区的不同学科领导的并行项目来推出这个框架，而不是在这个集群中反映的那些。

The GCRF Challenge Cluster Participatory Futures directly addresses the challenge of Equitable Access to Sustainable Development as identified by the UKRI GCRF strategy: "Partnerships should be transparent and based on mutual respect... equitable distribution of resources, responsibilities, efforts and benefits... recognising different inputs, different interests and different desired outcomes." As a central component to this challenge area, the proposed cluster looks to the Sustainable Development Goal 17, Partnerships for the Goals, to ensure that innovation and knowledge is shared between countries via strong global partnerships. This goal is gravely underrepresented in development-related research and yet critically underpins and determines the quality, impact and sustainability of outcomes of our research and practice. This project recognises the need for a critical examination of what we mean by partnership, how these are enacted within development practice, and how we might learn and enable the research community to "partner better." The practices, tensions and experiences relating to the ongoing challenges of partnership working are largely overlooked in reports and papers of interdisciplinary, transboundary projects. Compounding this problem, the evidence of the impacts of "projectitus" (short-termism in planning without concern for the longer-term implications of research or interventions, and "research fatigue" amongst over-burdened communities), the examples of unintended detrimental consequences of well-intentioned research and of abandoned and failed initiatives and the rise of post-development literature as a response to the western dominated nature of development, continues to amass. Despite the increasing affluence and capacity of the Global North, people in the south still suffer disproportionately from disease, poverty, war, famine and climate change. We have come together in recognition that partnerships and participation represent a fundamental but complex component of all GCRF. We contend that without genuine and equitable partnerships at the foundations of our research, the potential impact, relevance, and sustainability of the research will forever be limited or negated. Partnerships not only determine the very design and implementation of research, but the outcomes. As innovation is a requirement of GCRF and part of wider research and development working, creating and maintaining successful and equitable partnerships is advantageous, leading to new insights and perspectives, engagement with harder to reach countries and populations, leading to new possibilities for sustainable impact. By moving partnerships to the foreground, the Participatory Futures Challenge Cluster will bring together strands of early successes and recognised failures in GCRF research to address the problem of equity in sustainable development. This project is fuelled by critical insights and analysis of completed and ongoing projects, and ultimately driven by a focus on proposition and solution. Phase 1 of the Cluster will include: (1) an ethnography of cluster projects to analyse partnership practices in terms of equity, participation, and impact; (2) a synthesise of research findings and outputs; (3) the development of a framework and proof of concept case study in accessible forms (written report, documentary, media); and (4) a transition pathway to tools of translation, education, impact, and influence to mainstream international research. These outputs predicate the objectives of a larger project (Phase 2) focused on rolling out this framework through concurrent projects led by different disciplines in multiple distinct regions beyond those reflected in this cluster.