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Curating Life in Vacant Spaces: Community Action Research and Reversing the Process of Academic Knowledge-Making
(UTS ePRESS, 2025-01-27) Dombroski K; Shiels R; Watkinson H
For scholars in academic institutions, the process of research usually begins with a question often gleaned from academic literature, progresses through some methods and results, then ends in writing and dissemination of the findings. ‘Impact’ is identified by trying to see if anyone takes up the research and uses it to inform policy or action outside of academia – with contemporary impact databases measuring this by whether it has been cited in policy documents. But this way of understanding impact is fundamentally at odds with researching community-led activism, where impact is already happening, and researchers engage with communities to document and evaluate the impact in ways that support the work. For activists out in the community, research and learning are happening all the time and have impact without anyone writing it up at all. This paper reflects on a research project in the city of Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand, where researchers and community activists began with ‘impact’ and ‘dissemination’. From there, we developed frameworks and methods, developed evidence, then ended with asking wider theoretical questions relevant to academic literature. Effectively, we reversed the order that research projects usually follow. In order to recognise this ‘reversed’ order, our paper utilises a reversed structure, using the concept of thinking infrastructures to understand what academic research adds to the knowledges already produced in community impact.
Connecting Forecast and Warning: A Partnership Between Communicators and Scientists
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG on behalf of the Met Office, 2022-06-21) Anderson CL; Rovins J; Johnston DM; Lang W; Golding B; Mills B; Kaltenberger R; Chasco J; Pagano TC; Middleham R; Nairn J; Golding B
In this chapter, we examine the ways that warning providers connect and collaborate with knowledge sources to produce effective warnings. We first look at the range of actors who produce warnings in the public and private sectors, the sources of information they draw on to comprehend the nature of the hazard, its impacts and the implications for those exposed and the process of drawing that information together to produce a warning. We consider the wide range of experts who connect hazard data with impact data to create tools for assessing the impacts of predicted hazards on people, buildings, infrastructure and business. Then we look at the diverse ways in which these tools need to take account of the way their outputs will feed into warnings and of the nature of partnerships that can facilitate this. The chapter includes examples of impact prediction in sport, health impacts of wildfires in Australia, a framework for impact prediction in New Zealand, and communication of impacts through social media in the UK.
Using the International Alcohol Control (IAC) policy index to assess effects of legislative change in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2024-06-11) Casswell S; Randerson S; Parker K; Huckle T
BACKGROUND: The IAC Policy Index was developed to allow comparison in alcohol policy between countries and within countries over time including in low resource settings. It measures four effective alcohol policies and takes into account stringency of regulation and the actual impact on the alcohol environment, such as trading hours and prices paid. This framework was used to assess policy in Aotearoa New Zealand in a time period covering two relevant legislative changes. This is the first study to use an alcohol policy index to assess and describe legislative change within country. METHODS: Data to calculate the IAC Policy Index was collected for 2013 and 2022. Stringency of policy was assessed from legislative statutes and impacts of policy on the alcohol environment from administrative data and specifically designed data collection. RESULTS: The overall IAC Policy Index score improved over the time period. The scores for the separate policy areas reflected the legislative changes as hypothesised, but also independent changes in impact, given ecological changes including reduced enforcement of drink driving countermeasures and increased exposure to marketing in digital channels. The IAC Policy index reflects the changes in policy status observed in Aotearoa, NZ. DISCUSSION: The IAC Policy Index provided a useful framework to assess and describe change in alcohol legislation contextualised by other influences on policy impact over time within a country. The results indicated the value of assessing stringency and impact separately as these moved independently. CONCLUSIONS: The IAC Alcohol Policy Index, measuring both stringency and actual impact on the alcohol environment with a focus on only the most effective alcohol policies provides meaningful insights into within-country policy strength over time. The IAC Policy Index used over time can communicate to policy makers successes and gaps in alcohol policy.
Exploring shared impact measurement : developing a framework for future action for the Zero Waste Network Aotearoa : a thesis prepared in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Environmental Management at Massey University, New Zealand
(Massey University, 2020) Wray, Dorte
The Zero Waste Network (ZWN) represents community resource recovery enterprises (CREs) working to shift communities towards a circular economy via zero waste education, reuse and recycling activities in Aotearoa New Zealand. The CRE model produces a range of impacts, however there is currently no standardised approach to reporting these. This thesis aims to develop a framework of action towards the implementation of shared impact measurement within the ZWN. It was found that research participants understand and communicate CRE impact in a variety of ways. It is proposed that there are environmental, cultural, social and economic dimensions to CRE impact. These are explored and analytical and reporting tools are presented for each. Aiming to have practical application within the ZWN, this thesis uses an action research approach, involving ZWN members in its design and implementation. Interviews, a survey and focus groups were undertaken, allowing for a variety of qualitative and quantitative data to be collected. These were analysed using coding and basic statistical analysis methods.

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