Organisation of evidence-based knowledge production: Evidence hierarchies and evidence typologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (13_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Foss Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Hierarchies

UN Women’s feminist engagement with governance by indicators in the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366
Author(s):  
Sara Rose Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Development Goals

The rise of evidence-based policy has brought with it an increase in the use of indicators and data-driven global projects. The United Nations System has used the indicator-based Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) projects to govern policy from above. Of particular interest in this article is how indicators are used to govern gender equality initiatives within the Goals. By using ‘governance by indicators’ as a framework for understanding global policy processes, we can better understand how the power of indicators can help or hinder progress towards gender equality depending on the extent to which it renders gendered concerns visible. Studying indicators in this forum also illuminates spaces of contestation, where policy actors can debate indicators and reshape meaning. Based on this framework, this article explores UN Women’s feminist critique of measurement and knowledge production in the MDGs and SDGs. Looking through their feminist lens applied to this form of knowledge production can yield a better understanding of the use of indicators in shaping evidence-based policy from the global level. In recognizing the value of quantification and data-driven evidence in policy, this article speaks to the tension between feminist critique of quantitative knowledge production and the feminist approach’s welcoming of multiple ways of knowing.

Why, in medicine, evidence is still more important than narratives or values? Or “The importance of being evident.”

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Marie-Caroline Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Actual Patient ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Do So ◽  
Evidence Hierarchies

The importance of being evident is what counts for medicine. The diagnosis must be evident and the treatment must be based on evidence. If that evidence is and always must be based on statistics, as we have seen, it becomes questionable. Evidence is good when it is robust and when it fits the individual patient. Only then does evidence-based medicine (EBM), make sense and only then the patient can be sure to be treated in the best possible way. EBM, the movement of medicine that is strictly based on evidence which is judged in a hierarchical order, is under scrutiny and heavily criticised, chiefly because it has lost the patient out of its focus. Numbers are more important than the individual diagnosis and treatment is administered according to population-based statistics and not ‘made to order’. Although this criticism is very valid, the solution cannot be to simply replace EBM with something else, but the solution must be to still base medicine and medical treatment on the best available evidence we have, while putting the patient back into focus. In order to do so, it is important to topple evidence hierarchies, to divide EBM into research and practice and to acknowledge that sometimes the statistical best evidence is not the best evidential treatment for the actual patient.

scholarly journals DATA RESISTANCE: A SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE*

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes A. Vera ◽  
Lindsey Dillon ◽  
Sara Wylie ◽  
Jennifer Liss Ohayon ◽  
Aaron Lemelin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Trump Administration

The dismantlement of evidence-based environmental governance by the Trump administration requires new forms of activism that uphold science and environmental regulatory agencies while critiquing the politics of knowledge production. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) emerged after the November 2016 U.S. presidential elections, becoming an organization of over 175 volunteer researchers, technologists, archivists, and activists innovating more just forms of government accountability and environmental regulation. Our successes include: (1) leading a public movement to archive vulnerable federal data evidencing climate change and environmental injustice; (2) conducting multisited interviews of current and former federal agency personnel regarding the transition into the Trump administration; (3) tracking changes to federal websites. In this article, we conduct a “social movement organizational autoethnography” on the field of movements intersecting within EDGI and on our theory, tactics, and practices. We offer ideas for expanding and iterating on methods of public, collaborative scholarship and advocacy.

scholarly journals Knowledge Use in Education for Environmental Citizenship—Results of Four Case Studies in Europe (France, Hungary, Serbia, Turkey)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 11118
Author(s):  
Imre Kovách ◽  
Boldizsár Gergely Megyesi ◽  
Angela Barthes ◽  
Hasan Volkan Oral ◽  
Marija Smederevac-Lalic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Citizenship ◽  
Research Questions

The aim of the paper is to contribute to the research on education for environmental citizenship in a comparative perspective. The central concept of education is the complex issue of knowledge. In the present paper, different knowledge forms, knowledge use, and types of knowledge production in environmental education are analysed for two EU countries, France and Hungary, together with two candidate countries, Serbia and Turkey. We review the most important theories and publications, the research questions and the methods considered to be examples for our present work. The second part of the paper presents the case studies according to the theoretical priorities. Evidence-based papers on cases in different European countries illustrating and discussing the evaluation of the types of knowledge used in environmental education and sustainability projects, as well as analysing the power-related components of knowledge use are reviewed. In the final part, case studies are compared and conclusions are drawn.

Evidence-Based Marketing: A Perspective on the ‘Practice - Theory Divide’

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Mode 2 Knowledge Production ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to explore some dimensions of the relationship between marketing research and theory, including the relationship between researchers and practitioners, using the lens on the debate around evidence-based management, with a view to stimulating debate within the marketing community. The article commences by introducing the concepts of evidence-based practice and management, and reviewing some of the challenges associated with integrating management and marketing research and practice. The following section visits the notion of ‘evidence’, including its link to mode 1 and mode 2 knowledge production. Finally, ten proposals for advancing evidence-based marketing and blurring the ‘practice–theory divide’ are proposed. These include peoplebased strategies, knowledge and inquiry-based strategies, and dissemination, communication and publication-based strategies.

scholarly journals Shifting neurotypical prevalence in knowledge production about the mentally diverse: A qualitative study exploring factors potentially influencing a greater presence of lived experience-led research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-94
Author(s):  
Damian Mellifont
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Factors Influencing

Research which is led by mentally diverse persons offers a variety of benefits.  Crucially, this research holds potential to target wide-ranging social inclusion issues.  Recognizing that these studies cannot lay claim to be commonplace, the aim of this investigation is to inform and improve policy supportive of lived experience-led studies by critically investigating evidence-based factors influencing a greater presence of this genuinely inclusive style of research.  Following purposive sampling, thematic analysis was applied to twelve articles meeting with inclusion criteria and retrieved from Scopus, Medline, PsycINFO and ProQuest databases.  This investigation reveals three key findings.  First, this exploratory study identifies factors supporting and resisting lived experience-led research across micro, meso and macro levels.  Second, investment in future research is needed to identify evidence-based measures with capacity to redress factors constraining opportunities for mentally diverse persons to develop research careers and to potentially lead the way in reforming mental health and other services.  Finally, any assertions of neurodiverse researchers as necessarily being lacking in professional qualifications or reliant upon the assistance of neurotypical colleagues should be critically questioned.  

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