What’s an RDP? Reseachers and policy makers in dialog March 22, 2009
Posted by Paul Duignan in : Research influening policy , trackbackLast week we held the final session of a national Rich Dialog Process (RDP) on the topic of the interface between research and policy. A Rich Dialog Process is a simple process which we have developed which facilitates deliberation and dialog on an issue on which stakeholders may have somewhat differing views. (More on the process at www.RichDialogProcess.org). We have run a number of these processes, usually related to research and evaluation issues.
The first one we ran was for the Royal Society of New Zealand on public perception of whether government was managing the risk around science and technology. The second was an RDP run inside the Access Grid. The Access Gid is a system which works over the internet and is best described as being like video-conferencing on speed. I suggested that a network of Access Grid nodes (the rooms in which you do ‘Access Gridding’ so to speak) be set up in New Zealand as part of an initiative called Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences (BRCSS). It was to discuss results from the most recent New Zealand wave of the World Values Survey.
The third one was to get better evidence-based practice in regard to school-based alcohol and drug programs. That consisted of researchers from SHORE (who were also involved in the Values Survey research) developing a literature review on what the evaluation evidence shows regarding school-based alcohol and drug programs. The dialog was between philanthropic and government funders as one group and program providers as the other group.
The fourth and most recent RDP which we finished last week was based around another research project SHORE undertook for BCRSS. This one was on the interface between research and policy – what is likely to facilitate the application of research and evaluation findings to developing policy? We had two groups – a policy-makers group and a researchers group. I will blog more about this RDP during the coming week.
Paul Duignan, PhD
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