Bednarek Angela T, Miyamoto Ben, Corbett Kristin, Hudson Charlotte, Scarrow Gayle, Brass Maeghan, DuMont Kim, Holmes Bev, Supplee Lauren, McLean Robert, Bhatia Jaspal, Chappell Shamira, Gorman Vélez Maggie, Kolavalli Chhaya
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC 20004.
Policy and Evaluation Division, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K1G 3H9, Canada.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jan 7;122(1):e2400931121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2400931121. Epub 2024 Dec 30.
Research that better aligns policy, practice, and research communities is gaining momentum around the world. This includes engaged research strategies that bring partners, and their diverse perspectives and kinds of knowledge, together to shape research agendas with on-the-ground-needs and to create dynamic problem-solving processes. These approaches aim to generate more equitable and effective solutions to societal challenges. Although many of these partnered strategies have a longstanding history, entrenched research cultures, practices, and institutional structures stand in the way of scaling them. Given the outsized role funders play in shaping research efforts, funders are a critical lever for change. This perspective describes the efforts of a global collaborative of philanthropic and public funders who are adapting their practices, supporting the development of infrastructure (e.g., capacity-strengthening, facilitation expertise, processes to guide relational work, etc.), and targeting system-level challenges to enable engaged research to maximize its potential. The authors integrate insights from different issue areas, geographies, and funding areas to provide concrete examples of funder activities that support engaged research and to suggest areas for further action. Recommendations include scaling changes in funding practices, deepening understanding of how and when engaged research leads to improved outcomes, and reshaping how success is defined and measured.
使政策、实践和研究群体更好地协调一致的研究正在全球范围内蓬勃发展。这包括参与式研究策略，该策略将合作伙伴及其多样的观点和各类知识汇聚在一起，根据实际需求制定研究议程，并创建动态的问题解决流程。这些方法旨在为社会挑战生成更公平、有效的解决方案。尽管其中许多合作策略有着悠久的历史，但根深蒂固的研究文化、实践和制度结构阻碍了它们的推广。鉴于资助者在塑造研究工作方面发挥着巨大作用，资助者是推动变革的关键杠杆。这一观点描述了一个由慈善和公共资助者组成的全球合作组织所做的努力，他们正在调整自身做法，支持基础设施建设（如能力强化、促进专业知识、指导关系工作的流程等），并针对系统层面的挑战，以使参与式研究发挥最大潜力。作者整合了来自不同问题领域、地域和资助领域的见解，提供了资助者支持参与式研究活动的具体实例，并提出了进一步行动的领域。建议包括扩大资助实践的变革规模，加深对参与式研究如何以及何时能带来更好成果的理解，以及重塑成功的定义和衡量方式。
