Washbourne Carla-Leanne, Murali Ranjini, Saidi Nada, Peter Sophie, Pisa Paola Fontanella, Sarzynski Thuan, Ryu Hyeonju, Filyushkina Anna, Campagne Carole Sylvie, Kadykalo Andrew N, Ávila-Flores Giovanni, Amiar Taha
Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany.
Environ Evid. 2024 May 24;13(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s13750-024-00334-5.
The interface between science and policy is a complex space, in theory and practice, that sees the interaction of various actors and perspectives coming together to enable policy-relevant evidence to support decision-making. Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are increasingly interested in working at the science-policy interface to support evidence-informed policy, with the number of opportunities to do so increasing at national and international levels. However, there are still many challenges limiting ECRs participation, not least how such a complex space can be accessed and navigated. While recommendations for engaging at the science-policy interface already exist, a practical 'map' of the science-policy interface landscape which would allow for ECR participation in evidence co-production and synthesis in science-policy is missing. With the purpose of facilitating the engagement of ECRs producing biodiversity and ecosystem services policy-relevant evidence at the interface between science and policy, the authors have co-created a 'mind-map'-a tool to review the landscape of and leverage access to the science-policy interface. This tool was developed through reviewing published literature, collating personal experiences of the ECR authors, and validating against wider peer perspectives in an ECR workshop during the 7th Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This co-created tool sees ECR engagement in (co-)producing evidence at the science-policy interface as an interaction of three main factors: the environment of the ECR, which mediates their acts of engagement at the science-policy interface leading to outcomes that will ultimately have a reciprocal impact on the ECR's environment.
科学与政策之间的界面在理论和实践上都是一个复杂的领域，涉及各种行为体和观点的相互作用，以使与政策相关的证据能够支持决策制定。早期职业研究人员（ECRs）越来越有兴趣在科学与政策的界面工作，以支持基于证据的政策制定，而且在国家和国际层面上这样做的机会也在增加。然而，仍然存在许多挑战限制了早期职业研究人员的参与，尤其是如何进入和驾驭这样一个复杂的领域。虽然已经有了关于参与科学与政策界面的建议，但缺少一份实用的科学与政策界面景观“地图”，该地图可以让早期职业研究人员参与科学与政策中的证据共同生产和综合。为了促进早期职业研究人员在科学与政策的界面上参与生成与生物多样性和生态系统服务政策相关的证据，作者共同创建了一个“思维导图”——一种用于审视科学与政策界面景观并利用进入该界面途径的工具。这个工具是通过回顾已发表的文献、整理早期职业研究人员作者的个人经验，并在生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台（IPBES）第七届全会期间的一次早期职业研究人员研讨会上根据更广泛的同行观点进行验证而开发的。这个共同创建的工具将早期职业研究人员在科学与政策界面参与（共同）生成证据视为三个主要因素的相互作用：早期职业研究人员的环境，它介导他们在科学与政策界面的参与行为，从而产生最终将对早期职业研究人员的环境产生相互影响的结果。
