The document discusses challenges around methods and power for uncertainty and plurality in research and policy appraisal. It presents an appreciative process framework with 4 stages - engage actors, explore framings, characterize dynamics, and reveal strategies. The framework aims to help appreciate alternative pathways through broad and participatory analysis of problems, options, issues and uncertainties. It also discusses how power structures can close down research by privileging narrow scopes and incumbent interests.
Steps methods #6 Methods: Functions, Stages and TasksSTEPS Centre
This document outlines the STEPS methodology for appreciating alternative pathways. It involves four stages: 1) Engage Actors, 2) Explore Framings, 3) Characterize Dynamics, and 4) Reveal Strategies. Each stage involves eight tasks to help appreciate pathways from different perspectives. The methodology is iterative and allows flexibility in addressing tasks. The goal is to gain a plural and conditional appreciation of issues through broad scoping, focused analysis, and linking of relations and perspectives.
STEPS methods #2: Wider context in governance, politics and institutionsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses wider contexts in governance, politics, and institutions related to managing risk and opening up innovation politics. It notes that current approaches tend to privilege single best or optimal decisions based on narrow inputs and analyses, potentially leading to technological lock-in. It advocates for more plural, democratic approaches acknowledging uncertainties and diverse stakeholders, using methods that appreciate alternative pathways, understandings, and judgments rather than privileging any one vision. The STEPS methodology aims to use a repertoire of conditional methods prioritizing various factors to enable reflection on marginal interests and alternatives.
Steps methods #5 Towards repertoires of mixed methodsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses the need for mixed methods approaches in research and policy appraisal to counter pressures for closure. It notes that institutions often privilege narrow scopes and incumbent interests over opening up discussion. The document calls for independent innovation research and policy appraisal to deliberately counter these pressures for closure. It proposes that building repertoires of mixed methods can provide both practical project methods and a systematic methodology to achieve more open and reflexive discussions.
Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Response to Highly Pathogenic Avi...STEPS Centre
This document summarizes Cambodia's response to the global threat of avian influenza and pandemic preparedness. It provides a timeline of key events and discusses three main policy narratives around culling practices, public health priorities, and protecting livelihoods. Interviews and surveys with government, private, and NGO actors in Cambodia revealed differences in perceptions of how effectively the government and donors responded, with donors seen as intervening more effectively. The conclusion emphasizes that policies need to better protect livelihoods and compensation practices while building technical capacity within the agriculture ministry.
Environmental change and maize innovation pathways in Kenya - STEPS Centre Me...STEPS Centre
John Thompson's presentation: 'Environmental change and maize innovation pathways in Kenya - STEPS Centre Methods case study'
Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/methods/pathways-methods/
Direction, Distribution, Diversity! pluralising progress in innovation, susta...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to a seminar at
Department of Innovation Sciences
Technical University Eindhoven, 15th April, 2010.
For more about Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto see http://www.anewmanifesto.org
Steps methods #6 Methods: Functions, Stages and TasksSTEPS Centre
This document outlines the STEPS methodology for appreciating alternative pathways. It involves four stages: 1) Engage Actors, 2) Explore Framings, 3) Characterize Dynamics, and 4) Reveal Strategies. Each stage involves eight tasks to help appreciate pathways from different perspectives. The methodology is iterative and allows flexibility in addressing tasks. The goal is to gain a plural and conditional appreciation of issues through broad scoping, focused analysis, and linking of relations and perspectives.
STEPS methods #2: Wider context in governance, politics and institutionsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses wider contexts in governance, politics, and institutions related to managing risk and opening up innovation politics. It notes that current approaches tend to privilege single best or optimal decisions based on narrow inputs and analyses, potentially leading to technological lock-in. It advocates for more plural, democratic approaches acknowledging uncertainties and diverse stakeholders, using methods that appreciate alternative pathways, understandings, and judgments rather than privileging any one vision. The STEPS methodology aims to use a repertoire of conditional methods prioritizing various factors to enable reflection on marginal interests and alternatives.
Steps methods #5 Towards repertoires of mixed methodsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses the need for mixed methods approaches in research and policy appraisal to counter pressures for closure. It notes that institutions often privilege narrow scopes and incumbent interests over opening up discussion. The document calls for independent innovation research and policy appraisal to deliberately counter these pressures for closure. It proposes that building repertoires of mixed methods can provide both practical project methods and a systematic methodology to achieve more open and reflexive discussions.
Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Response to Highly Pathogenic Avi...STEPS Centre
This document summarizes Cambodia's response to the global threat of avian influenza and pandemic preparedness. It provides a timeline of key events and discusses three main policy narratives around culling practices, public health priorities, and protecting livelihoods. Interviews and surveys with government, private, and NGO actors in Cambodia revealed differences in perceptions of how effectively the government and donors responded, with donors seen as intervening more effectively. The conclusion emphasizes that policies need to better protect livelihoods and compensation practices while building technical capacity within the agriculture ministry.
Environmental change and maize innovation pathways in Kenya - STEPS Centre Me...STEPS Centre
John Thompson's presentation: 'Environmental change and maize innovation pathways in Kenya - STEPS Centre Methods case study'
Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/methods/pathways-methods/
Direction, Distribution, Diversity! pluralising progress in innovation, susta...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to a seminar at
Department of Innovation Sciences
Technical University Eindhoven, 15th April, 2010.
For more about Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto see http://www.anewmanifesto.org
Boru Douthwaite: Theory of Change to lever changeSTEPS Centre
This document summarizes Boru Douthwaite's presentation on using theories of change (ToC) to leverage impact. It discusses two interventions: 1) Participatory Innovation Histories which worked well for research learning but less for changing practice, and 2) PIPA (Planning Impact Pathways for Agricultural Research) which uses tools from program evaluation to develop impact pathways and network maps to surface strategies for achieving a shared vision. PIPA was found to provide a language and concepts to link research to impact and build support coalitions. The document discusses next steps like reviving PIPA and measuring its impacts.
The Political Economy of HPAI in Thailand by Rachel M. SafmanSTEPS Centre
In February 2009, an expert meeting co-hosted by the STEPS Centre and Chatham House and funded by DFID/the World Bank was held in Hove, Sussex, UK. The meeting reviewed country-level experiences of HPAI response in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. This is the presentation from the Thailand work. Find out more at: http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/avianflu.html
Making it easy to give discusses how to create an online fundraising page through the Just Giving website to support the British Heart Foundation. It encourages the reader that they can fundraise and the organization believes in their efforts. A story is shared about Auntie June who fundraised through baking and selling cakes to support heart health.
This document provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a Multicriteria Mapping (MCM) analysis. It describes choosing options and defining criteria, assessing scores, exploring uncertainties, assigning weights, and considering overall rankings to compare options. The outcomes of MCM include qualitative data on stakeholder perspectives and framings of options, as well as quantitative data like scores, weights, and rankings. Examples of MCM results are shown for health policy options and agricultural strategies regarding genetically modified foods.
Andy Stirling - nexus methods (RGS 2016)STEPS Centre
This document discusses the concept of "nexus thinking" across multiple domains and topics. It makes several key points:
1) Nexus thinking spans across different silos and considers connections between domains like food, water, energy, climate, and development.
2) Framing of nexus issues applies at every level and transcends place, space, and scale. Different framings lead to different understandings and potential solutions.
3) Nexus thinking recognizes the entanglement of objective conditions and subjective actors, and highlights the role of power and politics in knowledge production.
Steps methods #7 practical tasks and stagesSTEPS Centre
This document outlines various methods that can be used at different stages of analyzing alternative pathways and technologies. It discusses scoping methods to map the breadth of relevant contexts. Grounding methods provide depth on particularities. Triangulating methods examine relationships and perspectives. The document then lists over 50 specific methods that can be used for scoping, focusing, linking information, and engaging stakeholders. It emphasizes using different combinations of methods appropriately for different assessment tasks and stages of analysis to best understand alternative pathways.
Andy Stirling - STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods'STEPS Centre
The document outlines the STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods' for helping appreciate alternative pathways. It summarizes the methods as follows:
1. The methods aim to catalyze more open political space by broadening out discussions beyond incumbent 'pro-innovation' views and opening up consideration of marginalized interests and alternative pathways.
2. The methodology involves engaging actors, exploring narratives, characterizing dynamics, and revealing strategies through a repertoire of participatory and deliberative methods.
3. A case study applying these methods in Kenya found surprising optimism for alternative crops but farmer preference for local maize varieties, showing how the methods can surface plural perspectives on pathways.
This document discusses key concepts of rigor and ethics in health policy and systems research (HPSR). It outlines four steps in HPSR: identifying the research focus and question; designing the study; ensuring quality and rigor; and applying ethical principles. It then discusses various aspects of ensuring rigor in HPSR, including researcher reflexivity, validity in fixed and flexible study designs, and the role of theory. Finally, it addresses ethical challenges in HPSR and principles like informed consent, social value, and power dynamics between researchers and participants.
The document discusses different aspects of the discussion section in a research study, including summarizing results, explaining findings, implications, and identifying areas for future research. It also covers mixed methods research approaches, philosophical worldviews including postpositivism, constructivism, and pragmatism, and research design types such as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The purpose is to provide an overview of key concepts in research methodology.
The document outlines the seven steps of the sociological research process: 1) defining the problem, 2) reviewing previous research, 3) developing hypotheses, 4) determining research design, 5) defining the sample and collecting data, 6) analyzing and interpreting data, and 7) preparing the research report. It discusses key concepts like independent and dependent variables, and the four main research methods: surveys, participant observation, experiments, and secondary analysis. It also covers issues of validity, reliability, research bias, sampling, and ethical concerns in sociological research.
This document provides an overview of qualitative analysis methods for coding interview and document data. It begins with an agenda for covering two main qualitative approaches, coding exercises, slides on qualitative analysis, and potential brainstorming and affinity diagramming exercises if time allows. It then discusses common features of qualitative analytic methods including affixing codes, noting reflections, sorting materials to identify patterns, and gradually developing generalizations. Finally, it provides details on coding and categorization procedures, the iterative nature of qualitative analysis, and ensuring the credibility and rigor of qualitative findings.
This document provides information on how to evaluate information sources for assignments and research. It discusses several models that can be used to critically assess sources, including IMRaD, PROMPT, CRAAP, and other questions to consider. The models highlight important aspects to examine, such as the research methodology, relevance, objectivity, accuracy, and timeliness of sources. Evaluating information helps develop important skills for academics and future employment, such as thinking critically about strengths and weaknesses.
This document discusses key issues in planning three specific types of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) study designs: cross-sectional designs, case studies, and participatory action research. It provides examples of each design and discusses important considerations for their use including defining research questions, choosing appropriate sampling strategies and data collection methods, developing analytical approaches, and ensuring meaningful participation particularly for participatory action research.
This document discusses key issues to consider when designing different types of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) studies. It covers three specific study designs: cross-sectional, case study, and participatory action research (PAR).
For cross-sectional designs, the document discusses their frequent use in HPSR to explore or describe phenomena at a particular time point. For case studies, it emphasizes the importance of purposefully selecting cases to allow theories to be tested. And for PAR, it highlights the emphasis on collaboration between researchers and subjects as equal partners through participatory cycles of observation, reflection and action.
This document provides an overview of action research, outlining its key principles and methodology. Action research is defined as a small-scale intervention to address practitioners' issues, combining diagnosis, action, and reflection in an ongoing cycle. It aims to simultaneously solve problems and generate new knowledge. The methodology involves identifying a problem, planning and implementing an intervention, then evaluating the results through critical reflection before progressing to the next cycle. Participation, collaboration, and reflection are emphasized. The goal is to improve practices and empower participants through emancipatory social change.
The document outlines the expectations of 15 examiners for a research thesis. In general, examiners expect the thesis to:
1) Make an academic, practical, or social contribution and ask rigorous research questions addressed through an appropriate methodology.
2) Have a precise title that describes what was done and not be too ambitious.
3) Include an in-depth, relevant literature review of seminal and highly cited works that shows a deep understanding beyond the specific context.
4) Have a sound conceptualization supported by theory that leads to clear hypotheses or a conceptual framework.
5) Use valid and appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods, measures, and analyses to properly justify the methodology and interpret all findings.
This document provides guidance on how to write a quality paper for publication. It outlines several essential points to consider, including having original research that advances knowledge and presenting findings in a high-quality manuscript. The document recommends developing awareness of topical issues by finding an exciting topic within popular areas of research. It also provides tips for structuring a manuscript, such as including an introduction, literature review, methodology, and conclusion. Key aspects of each section are highlighted, such as writing an abstract that solicits interest and concisely describes findings. The document emphasizes writing in a clear style and structure and critically analyzing prior works in the literature review.
The document outlines the basic steps of the scientific method used in sociological research: 1) Define the problem, 2) Review relevant literature, 3) Formulate a testable hypothesis, 4) Select a research design and collect/analyze data through methods like surveys, observation, or experiments, and 5) Develop a conclusion and ideas for further research. It discusses key aspects of each step, such as developing operational definitions, identifying independent and dependent variables, ensuring validity and reliability, and addressing ethical concerns.
This document provides an overview of assessment and evaluation approaches. It discusses educational evaluation standards from organizations in the United States and Philippines. Evaluation approaches are classified based on epistemology, perspective, and orientation. Objectivist approaches use empirical inquiry while subjectivist approaches consider personal experiences. True evaluation determines value, quasi-evaluation may or may not, and pseudo-evaluation promotes views. Various evaluation methods are described like experimental research, testing programs, and accountability studies.
The document discusses different approaches to educational evaluation including politically controlled evaluations, public relations evaluations, and various objectivist approaches focused on experimental research, management information systems, testing programs, and objectives-based studies. It outlines the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach. Key principles for evaluators discussed include systematic inquiry, competence, integrity, respect for people, and responsibility to public welfare. Different classification systems for evaluation approaches are also summarized based on epistemology, perspective, and orientation.
The document discusses various considerations for research methods and design, providing an overview of key differences between qualitative and quantitative approaches. It outlines criteria for evaluating each type of research, such as purpose, sample size, variables studied, data collection and analysis methods. Guidelines are also provided for choosing appropriate research tools and designing surveys, with examples of common pitfalls to avoid like leading questions, ambiguous response options, and double-barreled questions.
Boru Douthwaite: Theory of Change to lever changeSTEPS Centre
This document summarizes Boru Douthwaite's presentation on using theories of change (ToC) to leverage impact. It discusses two interventions: 1) Participatory Innovation Histories which worked well for research learning but less for changing practice, and 2) PIPA (Planning Impact Pathways for Agricultural Research) which uses tools from program evaluation to develop impact pathways and network maps to surface strategies for achieving a shared vision. PIPA was found to provide a language and concepts to link research to impact and build support coalitions. The document discusses next steps like reviving PIPA and measuring its impacts.
The Political Economy of HPAI in Thailand by Rachel M. SafmanSTEPS Centre
In February 2009, an expert meeting co-hosted by the STEPS Centre and Chatham House and funded by DFID/the World Bank was held in Hove, Sussex, UK. The meeting reviewed country-level experiences of HPAI response in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. This is the presentation from the Thailand work. Find out more at: http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/avianflu.html
Making it easy to give discusses how to create an online fundraising page through the Just Giving website to support the British Heart Foundation. It encourages the reader that they can fundraise and the organization believes in their efforts. A story is shared about Auntie June who fundraised through baking and selling cakes to support heart health.
This document provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a Multicriteria Mapping (MCM) analysis. It describes choosing options and defining criteria, assessing scores, exploring uncertainties, assigning weights, and considering overall rankings to compare options. The outcomes of MCM include qualitative data on stakeholder perspectives and framings of options, as well as quantitative data like scores, weights, and rankings. Examples of MCM results are shown for health policy options and agricultural strategies regarding genetically modified foods.
Andy Stirling - nexus methods (RGS 2016)STEPS Centre
This document discusses the concept of "nexus thinking" across multiple domains and topics. It makes several key points:
1) Nexus thinking spans across different silos and considers connections between domains like food, water, energy, climate, and development.
2) Framing of nexus issues applies at every level and transcends place, space, and scale. Different framings lead to different understandings and potential solutions.
3) Nexus thinking recognizes the entanglement of objective conditions and subjective actors, and highlights the role of power and politics in knowledge production.
Steps methods #7 practical tasks and stagesSTEPS Centre
This document outlines various methods that can be used at different stages of analyzing alternative pathways and technologies. It discusses scoping methods to map the breadth of relevant contexts. Grounding methods provide depth on particularities. Triangulating methods examine relationships and perspectives. The document then lists over 50 specific methods that can be used for scoping, focusing, linking information, and engaging stakeholders. It emphasizes using different combinations of methods appropriately for different assessment tasks and stages of analysis to best understand alternative pathways.
Andy Stirling - STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods'STEPS Centre
The document outlines the STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods' for helping appreciate alternative pathways. It summarizes the methods as follows:
1. The methods aim to catalyze more open political space by broadening out discussions beyond incumbent 'pro-innovation' views and opening up consideration of marginalized interests and alternative pathways.
2. The methodology involves engaging actors, exploring narratives, characterizing dynamics, and revealing strategies through a repertoire of participatory and deliberative methods.
3. A case study applying these methods in Kenya found surprising optimism for alternative crops but farmer preference for local maize varieties, showing how the methods can surface plural perspectives on pathways.
This document discusses key concepts of rigor and ethics in health policy and systems research (HPSR). It outlines four steps in HPSR: identifying the research focus and question; designing the study; ensuring quality and rigor; and applying ethical principles. It then discusses various aspects of ensuring rigor in HPSR, including researcher reflexivity, validity in fixed and flexible study designs, and the role of theory. Finally, it addresses ethical challenges in HPSR and principles like informed consent, social value, and power dynamics between researchers and participants.
The document discusses different aspects of the discussion section in a research study, including summarizing results, explaining findings, implications, and identifying areas for future research. It also covers mixed methods research approaches, philosophical worldviews including postpositivism, constructivism, and pragmatism, and research design types such as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The purpose is to provide an overview of key concepts in research methodology.
The document outlines the seven steps of the sociological research process: 1) defining the problem, 2) reviewing previous research, 3) developing hypotheses, 4) determining research design, 5) defining the sample and collecting data, 6) analyzing and interpreting data, and 7) preparing the research report. It discusses key concepts like independent and dependent variables, and the four main research methods: surveys, participant observation, experiments, and secondary analysis. It also covers issues of validity, reliability, research bias, sampling, and ethical concerns in sociological research.
This document provides an overview of qualitative analysis methods for coding interview and document data. It begins with an agenda for covering two main qualitative approaches, coding exercises, slides on qualitative analysis, and potential brainstorming and affinity diagramming exercises if time allows. It then discusses common features of qualitative analytic methods including affixing codes, noting reflections, sorting materials to identify patterns, and gradually developing generalizations. Finally, it provides details on coding and categorization procedures, the iterative nature of qualitative analysis, and ensuring the credibility and rigor of qualitative findings.
This document provides information on how to evaluate information sources for assignments and research. It discusses several models that can be used to critically assess sources, including IMRaD, PROMPT, CRAAP, and other questions to consider. The models highlight important aspects to examine, such as the research methodology, relevance, objectivity, accuracy, and timeliness of sources. Evaluating information helps develop important skills for academics and future employment, such as thinking critically about strengths and weaknesses.
This document discusses key issues in planning three specific types of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) study designs: cross-sectional designs, case studies, and participatory action research. It provides examples of each design and discusses important considerations for their use including defining research questions, choosing appropriate sampling strategies and data collection methods, developing analytical approaches, and ensuring meaningful participation particularly for participatory action research.
This document discusses key issues to consider when designing different types of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) studies. It covers three specific study designs: cross-sectional, case study, and participatory action research (PAR).
For cross-sectional designs, the document discusses their frequent use in HPSR to explore or describe phenomena at a particular time point. For case studies, it emphasizes the importance of purposefully selecting cases to allow theories to be tested. And for PAR, it highlights the emphasis on collaboration between researchers and subjects as equal partners through participatory cycles of observation, reflection and action.
This document provides an overview of action research, outlining its key principles and methodology. Action research is defined as a small-scale intervention to address practitioners' issues, combining diagnosis, action, and reflection in an ongoing cycle. It aims to simultaneously solve problems and generate new knowledge. The methodology involves identifying a problem, planning and implementing an intervention, then evaluating the results through critical reflection before progressing to the next cycle. Participation, collaboration, and reflection are emphasized. The goal is to improve practices and empower participants through emancipatory social change.
The document outlines the expectations of 15 examiners for a research thesis. In general, examiners expect the thesis to:
1) Make an academic, practical, or social contribution and ask rigorous research questions addressed through an appropriate methodology.
2) Have a precise title that describes what was done and not be too ambitious.
3) Include an in-depth, relevant literature review of seminal and highly cited works that shows a deep understanding beyond the specific context.
4) Have a sound conceptualization supported by theory that leads to clear hypotheses or a conceptual framework.
5) Use valid and appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods, measures, and analyses to properly justify the methodology and interpret all findings.
This document provides guidance on how to write a quality paper for publication. It outlines several essential points to consider, including having original research that advances knowledge and presenting findings in a high-quality manuscript. The document recommends developing awareness of topical issues by finding an exciting topic within popular areas of research. It also provides tips for structuring a manuscript, such as including an introduction, literature review, methodology, and conclusion. Key aspects of each section are highlighted, such as writing an abstract that solicits interest and concisely describes findings. The document emphasizes writing in a clear style and structure and critically analyzing prior works in the literature review.
The document outlines the basic steps of the scientific method used in sociological research: 1) Define the problem, 2) Review relevant literature, 3) Formulate a testable hypothesis, 4) Select a research design and collect/analyze data through methods like surveys, observation, or experiments, and 5) Develop a conclusion and ideas for further research. It discusses key aspects of each step, such as developing operational definitions, identifying independent and dependent variables, ensuring validity and reliability, and addressing ethical concerns.
This document provides an overview of assessment and evaluation approaches. It discusses educational evaluation standards from organizations in the United States and Philippines. Evaluation approaches are classified based on epistemology, perspective, and orientation. Objectivist approaches use empirical inquiry while subjectivist approaches consider personal experiences. True evaluation determines value, quasi-evaluation may or may not, and pseudo-evaluation promotes views. Various evaluation methods are described like experimental research, testing programs, and accountability studies.
The document discusses different approaches to educational evaluation including politically controlled evaluations, public relations evaluations, and various objectivist approaches focused on experimental research, management information systems, testing programs, and objectives-based studies. It outlines the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach. Key principles for evaluators discussed include systematic inquiry, competence, integrity, respect for people, and responsibility to public welfare. Different classification systems for evaluation approaches are also summarized based on epistemology, perspective, and orientation.
The document discusses various considerations for research methods and design, providing an overview of key differences between qualitative and quantitative approaches. It outlines criteria for evaluating each type of research, such as purpose, sample size, variables studied, data collection and analysis methods. Guidelines are also provided for choosing appropriate research tools and designing surveys, with examples of common pitfalls to avoid like leading questions, ambiguous response options, and double-barreled questions.
An overview of key activities in a complete futures / foresight study, with a 'shopper's guide' to relevant tools and methods to suit each activity. Use it to compose an integrated futures research project, soup to nuts.
The Role of the Library in a Research Universitynulibrary
The document discusses the role of libraries in research universities. It notes that libraries must adapt to changing needs and environments. Specifically, it notes the shift from individual to collaborative learning, local to international students, and reactive to proactive approaches. An example is given of an embedded librarian who collaborated closely with a faculty member by introducing resources and supporting student work. The document advocates for librarians to act as guides and curators to help create an environment where intellectual exploration can flourish. It also provides a framework for managing change, including diagnosing needs, implementing interventions through pilots, and establishing systems like training to sustain changes over time.
The Process of Qualitative Research Methodsevamaealvarado
This document outlines the process of qualitative research methods. It discusses determining research questions and purpose, selecting a topic, developing a theory or worldview, collecting and analyzing data through coding emerging themes and developing hypotheses. It emphasizes iterative analysis and interpreting findings by telling the overall story while accounting for researcher perspective and ensuring dependability, confirmability and potential transferability.
This document provides guidance on conducting qualitative data analysis. It outlines a step-by-step process including getting to know the data by reading it thoroughly, analyzing the data by identifying substantive statements and themes, and interpreting the findings to prepare a report. Themes can be preset or emergent, and include basic, organizing, and global themes. An example is provided to demonstrate identifying substantive statements and deriving themes from the statements.
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This document outlines a variety of methods that can be used to scope issues broadly, focus on particularities in depth, and link relations and perspectives across contexts. It provides a repertoire of methods that can help appreciate alternative pathways, including interpretive, interactive, and group deliberative styles as well as techniques like critical literature reviews, in-depth case studies, discourse analysis, and participatory approaches.
Coloniality in Transformation: decolonising methods for activist scholarship ...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to 2021 Transformations to Sustainability conference session on '‘Philosophical Underpinnings’ in decolonizing research methods for transformation towards sustainability', 17th June 2021
Opening up the politics of justification in maths for policy: power and uncer...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to conference of INET in collaboration with OECD on ‘Forecasting the Future for Sustainable Development: approaches to modelling and the science of prediction’. 16th June 2021
Discussion: The Future of the World is Mobile - Giorgia GiovannettiSTEPS Centre
By Giorgia Giovannetti, University of Firenze and Robert Schuman Centre, EUI. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Interfacing pastoral movements and modern mobilitiesSTEPS Centre
By Michele Nori, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience) project. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Reconceiving migration through the study of pastoral mobilitySTEPS Centre
By Natasha Maru, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience) project. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from MadagascarSTEPS Centre
19 March 2019, Institute of Development Studies
Seminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project
Speaker: Mathilde Gingembre
https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mathilde-gingembre-bringing-moral-economy-into-the-study-of-land-deals-reflections-from-madagascar/
Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: the Transformation Lab in...STEPS Centre
Presentation by J. Mario Siqueiros, February 2019, at a STEPS Seminar at the Institute of Development Studies.
More information: https://steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network/
From controlled transition to caring transformations - StirlingSTEPS Centre
This document discusses the differences between "controlling transitions" and "caring transformations" when addressing issues like climate change. It argues that ideas of control are part of the problem and that controlled transition does not equal real transformation. Caring for transformation instead of control could mean culturing transformation through myriad grassroots actions that challenge power and are driven by solidarity, values and hope rather than singular theories and top-down control. True transformation is shaped by unruly diversity rather than imposed order and expertise.
Systems, change and growth - Huff and BrockSTEPS Centre
Presentation from week 1 of the System Change HIVE that outlines big ideas about the environment and some criticisms of capitalism.
http://systemchangehive.org/
STEPS Annual Lecture 2017: Achim Steiner - Doomed to fail or bound to succeed...STEPS Centre
Achim Steiner, incoming UNDP director, gave the STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May 2017. Find out more: https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-achim-steiner/
This document provides an overview of a presentation given by Andy Stirling on 'Nexus Methods' at the ESRC Methods Festival. It discusses the complex and interconnected nature of issues related to the food-water-energy nexus. It notes that while there are many quantitative and qualitative methods that can be applied to nexus issues, they all involve subjective framings and no single method can capture the full complexity. The presentation advocates a reflexive approach that acknowledges the conditional nature of knowledge and assessment in this domain.
Suresh Rohilla - Climate change and sanitation, water resourcesSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Suraje Dessai - Uncertainty from above and encounters in the middleSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar - Uncertainty from withinSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Shibaji Bose - Voices from below - a Photo Voice exploration in Indian sundar...STEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Ian Scoones - Enabling plural pathways - uncertainty and responses to climate...STEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Saurabh Arora - The advantages of uncertainty - toward new principles for coo...STEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
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Steps methods #3 power, uncertainty, plurality
1. STEPS Pathways Methods
PART 3
Issues of methods and power
around uncertainty and plurality
Professor Andy Stirling
Co-director, STEPS Centre
www.steps-centre.org
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
www.multicriteria-mapping.org
2. INPUTS
(aspects taken into
account within
practice of research
or appraisal)
problems,
options,
pros / cons,
issues,
uncertainties,
perspectives
INPUTS
(things that are
taken into account)
Pro
blems, options, pros
/ cons, issues,
uncertainties,
perspectives
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Challenges for Research and Appraisal
How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
OUTPUTS
(aspects that are conveyed
outwards into wider discourse)
’Plural conditional’ conclusions…
… if X then A … if Y then B …
3. narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
decision
analysis
Challenges for Research and Appraisal
How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
4. narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
Challenges for Research and Appraisal
How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
5. narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
participatory
rural appraisal
q-method
deliberative
mapping
scientometric
mapping
open
space
multi-criteria
mapping
extended
foresight
citizen’s juries
decision
analysis
stakeholder
negotiation
sensitivity
analysis
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessment
interactive
modelling
structured
interviews
narrative-based
participant
observation
multi-site
ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus
conference
open
hearings
dissenting
opinions
Challenges for Research and Appraisal
How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
spot-the-
narrative
6. spot-the-
narrative
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
decision
analysis
participatory
rural appraisal
stakeholder
negotiation
q-method
sensitivity
analysis
deliberative
mapping
scientometric
mapping
open
space
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessmen
t
interactive
modelling
structured
interviews
narrative-based
participant
observation
multi-site
ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus
conference
open
hearings
dissenting
opinions
multi-criteria
mapping
extended
foresight
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
Institutions privilege blinkered scope, marginal analysis, incumbent interests
… evidence-basing, liability, insurance, agency remits, fiduciary responsibility
stakeholder
negotiation
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessment
7. narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
decision
analysis
participatory
rural appraisal
stakeholder
negotiation
q-method
sensitivity
analysis
deliberative
mapping
scientometric
mapping
open
space
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessmen
t
interactive
modelling
structured
interviews
narrative-based
participant
observation
multi-site
ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus
conference
open
hearings
dissenting
opinions
multi-criteria
mapping
extended
foresight
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
spot-the-
narrative
8. narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Building Methods Repertoires
Basis both for practical project methods – and systematic STEPS methodology
‘visions
workshops’
‘dynamic
MCM’
‘particip.
epidem.’
‘top-bottom
comparison’
‘network
analysis’
‘insider
ontologies’
10. A: ENGAGE ACTORS - together:
1: review relevant histories
2: analyse associated networks
3: snowball salient interests
4: prioritise most marginal
5: examine power relations
6: identify basic pathway visions
7: be alert for hidden plurality
8: seek critical feedback
STEPS METHODOLOGY
appreciative process:
help appreciate alternative pathways
‘Stages’ are distinct but
mutually co-constituting.
Sequence is heuristic, iterative
and recursive.
Tasks always relevant but not
always equally crucial.
Tasks can be addressed in
different ways.
‘Broadening out’ and ‘opening up’
must in some way consider – if
not address - all stages & tasks.
11. STEPS METHODOLOGY
appreciative process:
APPRECIATE
PATHWAYS
B: EXPLORE FRAMINGS
1: review relevant histories
2: elicit notions of systems
3: explore related narratives
4: address Sustainability values
5: scope possible pathways
6: review aspects of incertitude
7: differentiate perspectives
8: seek critical feedback
B: EXPLORE FRAMINGS
1: review relevant histories
2: elicit notions of systems
3: explore related narratives
4: address Sustainability values
5: scope possible pathways
6: review aspects of incertitude
7: differentiate perspectives
8: seek critical feedback
A: ENGAGE ACTORS – together:
1: review relevant histories
2: analyse associated networks
3: snowball salient interests
4: prioritise most marginal
5: examine power relations
6: identify basic pathway visions
7: be alert for hidden plurality
8: seek critical feedback
help appreciate alternative pathways
‘Stages’ are distinct but
mutually co-constituting.
Sequence is heuristic, iterative
and recursive.
Tasks always relevant but not
always equally crucial.
Tasks can be addressed in
different ways.
‘Broadening out’ and ‘opening up’
must in some way consider – if
not address - all stages & tasks.
12. B: EXPLORE FRAMINGS
1: review relevant histories
2: elicit notions of systems
3: explore related narratives
4: address Sustainability values
5: scope possible pathways
6: review aspects of incertitude
7: differentiate perspectives
8: seek critical feedback
C CHARACTERISE DYNAMICS:
1: review relevant histories
2: explore challenges/opportunities
3: scrutinise likely shocks/stresses
4: look at actors’ strength/weakness
5: examine decision/branch points
6: identify winners/losers
7: attend to issues of power/politics
8: seek critical feedback
STEPS METHODOLOGY
APPRECIATE
PATHWAYS
A: ENGAGE ACTORS – together:
1: review relevant histories
2: analyse associated networks
3: snowball salient interests
4: prioritise most marginal
5: examine power relations
6: identify basic pathway visions
7: be alert for hidden plurality
8: seek critical feedback
help appreciate alternative pathways
appreciative process:
‘Stages’ are distinct but
mutually co-constituting.
Sequence is heuristic, iterative
and recursive.
Tasks always relevant but not
always equally crucial.
Tasks can be addressed in
different ways.
‘Broadening out’ and ‘opening up’
must in some way consider – if
not address - all stages & tasks.
13. A: ENGAGE ACTORS – together:
1: review relevant histories
2: analyse associated networks
3: snowball salient interests
4: prioritise most marginal
5: examine power relations
6: identify basic pathway visions
7: be alert for hidden plurality
8: seek critical feedback
B: EXPLORE FRAMINGS
1: review relevant histories
2: elicit notions of systems
3: explore related narratives
4: address Sustainability values
5: scope key possible pathways
6: review aspects of incertitude
7: differentiate perspectives
8: seek critical feedback
D: REVEAL POLITICAL ACTIONS
1: review relevant histories
2: confirm key protagonists
3: explore forms of agency
4: define possible interventions
5: review winners/losers
6: examine possible responses
7: establish accountabilities
8: seek critical feedback
C CHARACTERISE DYNAMICS:
1: review relevant histories
2: explore challenges/opportunities
3: scrutinise likely shocks/stresses
4: look at actors’ strength/weakness
5: examine decision/branch points
6: identify winners/losers
7: attend to issues of power/politics
8: seek critical feedback
STEPS METHODOLOGY
APPRECIATE
PATHWAYS
help appreciate alternative pathways
appreciative process:
‘Stages’ are distinct but
mutually co-constituting.
Sequence is heuristic, iterative
and recursive.
Tasks always relevant but not
always equally crucial.
Tasks can be addressed in
different ways.
‘Broadening out’ and ‘opening up’
must in some way consider – if
not address - all stages & tasks.
14. phenomena under scrutiny
(all key aspects of pathways)
• “systems” and “contexts”
• “scales” and “levels”
• “actors” and “networks”
• “values” and “interests”
• “frames” and “narratives”
• “causes” and “effects”
• “knowledges”,“incertitudes”
• “positives” and “negatives”
• “structures” and “agents”
• “actions” and “reactions”
• “imaginations” and “visions”
interpretive challenge
STEPS METHODOLOGY help appreciate alternative pathways
15. SCOPING
of breadth of contexts
FOCUSING
on depth of particularities
LINKING
relations and perspectives
aspects of methods
STEPS METHODOLOGY
Inductive appreciation of
contexts
Broad descriptive
accounts
Diverse evaluative views
Attend to key dimensions
of heterogeneity.
Envelope of different
understandings
Illustrative mottos :
“start with the big picture”;
“see wood for trees”
“better roughly accurate
than precisely wrong“
Tightening deductive kinds
of focus
Targetted, ordered, thick
accounts
Particular systematic
disciplinary rigour
Key parameters of
homogeneity.
Deeper, forensic attention
to detail
Conditionally more subtle
individual understandings.
Illustrative mottos
"the devil's in the detail“
“thick not thin accounts”
Informed both by scoping
and focusing
Exploring fruitful axes for
cross-interrogation
Mutual critical deconstruction
‘Plural and conditional’,
appreciation
Illustrative mottos
“beauty (truth) are in the
eyes of beholders“
"it takes all sorts to make a
world“
“agree on reasons for
disagreement”
phenomena under scrutiny
(all key aspects of pathways)
• “systems” and “contexts”
• “scales” and “levels”
• “actors” and “networks”
• “values” and “interests”
• “frames” and “narratives”
• “causes” and “effects”
• “knowledges”,“incertitudes”
• “positives” and “negatives”
• “structures” and “agents”
• “actions” and “reactions”
• “imaginations” and “visions”
help appreciate alternative pathways
16. environment
plural frames
Knowledges and Pathways
‘system’
under-determined realities
local people
time
‘effect’
‘cause’
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘linking’
‘pathway’
‘focus’
17. SCOPING
breadth of contexts
FOCUSING
depth of particularities
LINKING
relations and perspectives
STEPS METHODOLOGY
Interpretive style
Interactive style
Group Deliberative style
Temporal dimensions
Reflexive dimensions
‘Positive’ style
Quantitative style
Monitoring / surveillance
Uncertain hazard analysis
Natural experiment
Interdisciplinary challenge
Transdisciplinary oversight
Plural conditional advice
Precautionary appraisal
Complex resilience analysis
Post-normal science
Critical literature review
Influence mapping
Alternatives assessment
Millstone critical realism
Social network analysis
In-depth case study
Discourse analysis
Semantic structures
Top-bottom comparison
Semi-structured IVs
Empathetic role play
In-depth, open IVs
participant observation
MCM interviews
Iterative Q method
Cross-frame interrogation
Open space approaches
Participatory soft systems
Participatory appraisal
Ethnographic immersion
Targeted focus groups
Iterative questionnaire
Iterative group MCM
Deliberative dissensus
Bring power to powerless
Open network analysis
Critical systematic review
Agent-based modelling
Repertory grids
Interactive models / GIS
Deliberative polling
Sensitivity analysis
Interval analysis
Diversity mapping
Historiographic research
Futures literatures
Extended foresight
Imaginaries analysis
Visioning / backcasting
Cross-scenario exploring
Do-it-yourself panels
Power tools
Co-operative research
Accountability process
Critical web access
Participatory design
Dissonance exploration
towards a
methods repertoire
help appreciate alternative pathways
18. SCOPING
breadth of contexts
GROUNDING
depth of particularities
TRIANGULATING
relations and perspectives
STEPS METHODOLOGY
Do-it-yourself panels
Power tools
Co-operative research
Accountability process
Critical web access
Participatory design
Dissonance exploration
Historiographic research
Futures literatures
Extended foresight
Imaginaries analysis
Visioning / backcasting
Cross-scenario exploring
Open space approaches
Participatory soft systems
Participatory appraisal
Ethnographic immersion
Targeted focus groups
Iterative questionnaire
Iterative group MCM
Deliberative dissensus
Bring power to powerless
Critical literature review
Influence mapping
Alternatives assessment
Millstone critical realism
Social network analysis
In-depth case study
Discourse analysis
Semantic structures
Top-bottom comparison
Semi-structured IVs
Empathetic role play
In-depth, open IVs
participant observation
MCM interviews
Iterative Q method
Cross-frame interrogation
Monitoring / surveillance
Uncertain hazard analysis
Natural experiment
Interdisciplinary challenge
Transdisciplinary oversight
Plural conditional advice
Open network analysis
Critical systematic review
Agent-based modelling
Repertory grids
Interactive models / GIS
Deliberative polling
Precautionary appraisal
Complex resilience analysis
Post-normal science
Sensitivity analysis
Interval analysis
Diversity mapping
... back to process:
Contrasting configurations of
methods are used in different
contexts to meet specific
methodological tasks at various
stages in the social appreciation of
alternative social, ecological and
technological pathways.
Each stage and task is thus
situated in a space defined by
different aspects of appraisal
(scoping, focusing and linking)
and by contrasting styles and
dimensions of particular methods
(outlined in the underlying grid).
In this way, the overarching STEPS
methodological framework helps
inform both the selection and
ordering of a diversity of methods
suitable for addressing different
aspects and dimensions in the
‘broadening out’ and ‘opening up’
of alternative pathways.
help appreciate alternative pathways
A: ENGAGE ACTORS – together:
1: review relevant histories
2: analyse associated networks
3: snowball salient interests
4: prioritise most marginal
5: examine power relations
6: identify basic pathway visions
7: be alert for hidden plurality
8: seek critical feedback
B: EXPLORE FRAMINGS
1: review relevant histories
2: elicit notions of systems
3: explore related narratives
4: address Sustainability values
5: scope key possible pathways
6: review aspects of incertitude
7: differentiate perspectives
8: seek critical feedback
D: REVEAL STRATEGIES
1: review relevant histories
2: confirm key protagonists
3: explore forms of agency
4: define possible interventions
5: review winners/losers
6: examine possible responses
7: establish accountabilities
8: seek critical feedback
C: MAP DYNAMICS for each pathway:
1: review relevant histories
2: explore challenges/opportunities
3: scrutinise likely shocks/stresses
4: look at actors’ strength/weakness
5: examine decision/branch points
6: identify winners/losers
7: attend to issues of power/politics
8: seek critical feedback
APPRECIATE
PATHWAYS