Developing a Methodology for Public Engagement With Critical Research

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aut.relation.issueSpecial issue: From critical research to policyen_NZ
aut.relation.journalPolicy Futures in Educationen_NZ
aut.relation.pages15
aut.researcherBoyask, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorBoyask, Ren_NZ
dc.contributor.authorVigurs, Ken_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-20T02:18:55Z
dc.date.available2019-09-20T02:18:55Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIn this article we argue that a refined understanding of ‘public’ and ‘public engagement’ can help researchers who produce critical research make better decisions towards achieving policy influence. We acknowledge the challenges critical researchers face in putting their research to work within the public domain. Critical research struggles to gain influence in bounded public spheres where research is valued as a consumable commodity rather than for its integrity or capacity for informing change. A starting point for developing a method of engagement is to understand better ‘publics’ and the different ways they may be conceptualised. We draw on a framework of three conceptualisations of the public in public engagement: bounded, normative and emergent. We use this framework to analyse our own experience of public engagement and attempts at policy influence in the Respecting Children and Young People Project. Through this analysis we recognise alternative ways to conceive of publics that may direct us away from some courses of action, and open new possibilities for public engagement with critical research.
dc.identifier.citationPolicy Futures in Education, 16(2), 217-231.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1478210317739521en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1478-2103en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12842
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478210317739521
dc.rightsAuthors retain the right to place his/her pre-publication version of the work on a personal website or institutional repository. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published. It is not the copy of record. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2017. (please see Citation and Publisher’s Version).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectResearch utilisation; Policy influence; Impact; Critical research; Public engagement
dc.titleDeveloping a Methodology for Public Engagement With Critical Researchen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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