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Nordic Campbell Center

ESRC Symposium: New approaches to assessing the impact of social science research Grafton Hotel, London, May 12-13, 2005 Impact of Social Research – a Nordic perspective Director Merete Konnerup, Nordic Campbell Center (NC2). Nordic Campbell Center.

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Nordic Campbell Center

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  1. ESRC Symposium: New approaches to assessing the impact of social science researchGrafton Hotel, London, May 12-13, 2005Impact of Social Research – a Nordic perspectiveDirector Merete Konnerup, Nordic Campbell Center (NC2)

  2. Nordic Campbell Center • Inaugurated 2002 with main focus on Social Work & Welfare Policies • First regional centre in the Campbell Collaboration • Budget: £ ½ million/year financed by the Danish Government • Presently financing and supporting 10+ reviews-in-progress • WWW.NC2.NET

  3. Why funding? And why now? Reasons: • Limits to growth of Nordic welfare state • Users/tax payers demand more & better services

  4. The Nordic Welfare State S.O.S Budget XXX

  5. Why funding? And why now? Reasons: • Limits to growth of Nordic welfare state (social services 13 per cent of GDP) • Users/tax payers demand more & better services Result: • Increased need for prioritization • Increased demands for credible documentation of impact Question: What Works?

  6. Decisions - what are they based on? Pragmatism, contingencies Experience & expert opinions Public opinion & pressure groups Evidence Judgement Habits & traditions Resources Values

  7. Social Science fields informing policy & practice Evidence Ethical… Descriptive analytical … Attitudinal… Implimentation… Economic/ econometric… Statistical modeling … Effect…

  8. What does it take to inform policy and practice on the impact of interventions? Impact studies must be synthesized Researcher must do high quality impact studies Practice and policy must be documented

  9. Some key players in the impact game

  10. Needs a story Needs timeliness Needs availability High quality intermediate institutions Politician/general public & impact of researchBarriers Enablers

  11. Needs a story Needs clear statements Needs them now The media loves researchers Strong social science tradition for participating in public debate Media & impact of researchBarriers Enablers

  12. Don’t necessarily “miss research” Lack of strong critical appraisal skills Strong tradition for freedom of choice of “method” Tools for pushing research More focus on continuing education More collaboration between public employees and researchers Public employee & impact of researchBarriers Solutions

  13. Few master high quality studies of the effect of interventions Suspiciousness towards applied policy research Suspiciousness towards generalization of results ”Which interventions work” needs to be combined with ”what works” in dissemi-nation & implimen-tation More interdisciplinary collaboration More research on transferability Social Scientist& impact of researchBarriers Enablers

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