You may be interested in participating in this session at the below event. My understanding is registration is free.
As shared with you all during the Quarterly Meeting, we will be presenting our research findings on the Barrier Survey conducted by LASER PULSE, at ICSD Conference. Since the Shah Lab and PPRI helped us distribute the survey, you are welcome
to join us. The registration is free. You can find the program below.
Date/Time: 09:00-10:00 ET Monday, 20 September, 2021
Theme: Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals
Title: Assessing Sustainability Of Future Academic-Practitioner Collaborations In International Development
Abstract: SDG 17 highlights the need for partnerships to address complex development challenges. Research partnerships between academics and development practitioners are emerging especially as more organizations like USAID and DFID are
promoting evidence based programming, results based frameworks and approaches to bridge knowledge-practice gaps. Sustainability of development goals in the context of researcher-practitioner partnerships relies on the ability of practitioners to utilize research
evidence into their programming. Thus, the underlying partnership theory for our study is that, if researchers and practitioners collaborate on co-creating solutions to implement SDGs, then there is higher potential for the co-produced research to be relevant
to practitioners to utilize/implement in practice/policy. Also, if researchers and practitioners have a good experience collaborating, there will be higher likelihood for future collaborations, potentially influencing the sustainability of development goals.
However, extant literature on such researcher-practitioner partnerships in international development, especially that investigates empirically and quantitatively different factors influencing researcher-practitioner collaborations is limited. Thus, our study
aimed to establish a framework for understanding such collaborations through the lens of the motivations, past experiences and barriers faced by researchers and practitioners. The study empirically investigated whether any of these factors impact their likelihood
to participate in future collaborations. Using an online, anonymous survey, we collected 162 total responses from researchers and development practitioners and analyzed them using different statistical methods. We found that researchers and practitioners have
different motivations to collaborate. Findings related to their past experiences showed that the type of work researchers collaborate on is different than that for practitioners. We also found differences in their responses on their perception of the practitioners’
level of involvement in the entire research process, as well as whether research outputs are relevant to practitioners. Our statistical analyses further explored the correlations between the likelihood of future collaborations with the level of practitioner’s
involvement in the entire research process, the frequency of their past collaborations, and their perception of whether research outputs from past collaborations were relevant to practitioners. We also looked at the difference between responses between many
different demographic variables including role type, gender and years of work experiences and found some very interesting differences in responses. In summary, the findings from our study indicated that the likelihood for researchers and practitioners to participate
in collaborations again in the future is positively correlated to practitioners’ level of involvement in the entire research process and the relevance of research outputs to practitioners. Our study has contributed to the literature by providing a framework
and empirical evidence on the different factors that influence the likelihood of future researcher-practitioner collaborations. As more of these types of partnerships are established to co-create solutions to implement SDGs, our study highlights the need to
involve practitioners in the entire research process.
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