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The Scottish Islands Research Network Guidelines for researchers

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The Scottish Islands Research Network Guidelines for researchers

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These were developed as part of a research project with representatives from community organisations across the scottish islands.

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Guidelines for research in island communities

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We have now completed our project looking at the experiences of research in the Scottish Islands, funded by the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network. As part of the report we have publis…

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Think about what you're saying and how you're saying it. You may want to get some communication training.

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Big subject but looking to see if there is any ongoing poverty research work going on that we can feed into/ take out of. If not, is it possible to commission something?

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It would be great to see reflections about mistakes from different perspectives - researchers and community members

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WWhere posible get the ordinary folk to contribute rather than the pros. Better chance of getting true feelings about isues, rather than sanitised versions.

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clear language; be clear about what type of practice is being discussed as these are so often conflated in writings, i.e. interorganisational partnerships vs work with marginalised communities

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clear language; be clear about what type of practice is being discussed as these are so often conflated in writings, i.e. interorganisational partnerships vs work with marginalised communities

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Speak to partners you might not expect. If you don't ask you won't get.

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involve the community before you write the research questions, don't leave it too late for them to get involved and feel ownership of the research rather than just be researched

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involve the community before you write the research questions, don't leave it too late for them to get involved and feel ownership of the research rather than just be researched

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Support for those concerned need to be swift

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Support for those concerned need to be swift

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Water is very important for community wellbeing and health

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Water is very important for community wellbeing and health

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An essential element for life :)

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Make sure it's not tokenistic and be honest about what you can do

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Make sure it's not tokenistic and be honest about what you can do

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It's important to not be tokenistic but also to be honest about what you're able to do - including your restrictions whether that is funding/time/resources etc - Amy C

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Choose communities with a range of issues and solutions, from across the country. Try and get non-professional folk to describe and answer questions.

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involve the key stakeholders that can actually use the research to create actions in the local community

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involve the key stakeholders that can actually use the research to create actions in the local community

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Find time to visit and learn about the culture of the group- they need to be able to trust you

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Find time to visit and learn about the culture of the group- they need to be able to trust you

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Keep things people-y, don't be afraid to tell the community any concerns about direction or gathering what you need to gather. The collaboration leads to really interesting results and builds a trusting and real relationship

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Keep things people-y, don't be afraid to tell the community any concerns about direction or gathering what you need to gather. The collaboration leads to really interesting results and builds a trusting and real relationship

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Think outside the box. What would the community be excited by/for, this could get fatigue out of the picture.

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building trust and relationships, or work with groups that can support the community throughout the process

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building trust and relationships, or work with groups that can support the community throughout the process

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Time, long-term partnership; transparency

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Using your own humanity as a trust builder 

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Using your own humanity as a trust builder 

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relationships are everthing for collaboration so use what you have as a human. Your lived experinces of challenge as well as interests to bulid human to human connections as peer - focusing them on what is in common not different

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It would be great to normalize failure as part of research and developing new ideas and projects. To help people see the learning in this rather than be discouraged.

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Always go back to those you have worked with to tell of any progress, or not, be honest, if things have not worked out as expected tell people

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Always go back to those you have worked with to tell of any progress, or not, be honest, if things have not worked out as expected tell people

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Multiple searchable Headings wouild be good, few truly classic mistyakes rely on a single factor for their disastership.

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....- what form can you use to make your voice heard. The drama of the postoffice swindling has made a massive difference to effect change
A community art work which incorporates many ideas about what the island is like and what needs to happen. Need some kind of embodiment in a way that is striking. People’s attention is so fragmented…policy makers are so remote. My head is roaming about…how do we embody these things? To have a very intersectional art work.  People have to work on it. 

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....- what form can you use to make your voice heard. The drama of the postoffice swindling has made a massive difference to effect change
A community art work which incorporates many ideas about what the island is like and what needs to happen. Need some kind of embodiment in a way that is striking. People’s attention is so fragmented…policy makers are so remote. My head is roaming about…how do we embody these things? To have a very intersectional art work.  People have to work on it. 

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....people want to see change. Conversation - it takes a long time, and the changes can be small. Involving people who are impacted by the research.  “..through sharing ideas of small changes that can happen now”. It’s made a difference because all the right person is involved  

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....people want to see change. Conversation - it takes a long time, and the changes can be small. Involving people who are impacted by the research.  “..through sharing ideas of small changes that can happen now”. It’s made a difference because all the right person is involved  

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....not making assumptions. Market research about programme development. Enabling communities…and working out who was a community is…. to tell us what they need. Opening up a two way honest platform. They tell us what they need, and there’s a realistic offer. Through relationship-building. Conservation, engagement. It always takes longer than you think  

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....not making assumptions. Market research about programme development. Enabling communities…and working out who was a community is…. to tell us what they need. Opening up a two way honest platform. They tell us what they need, and there’s a realistic offer. Through relationship-building. Conservation, engagement. It always takes longer than you think  

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starting with asking the community exactly what they want. Its about meeting people with their language and presenting community led research in a way that is appealing and excites people. For community led research to be somewhere the community can turn to for work. Having services integrated to feel more like a web of support that people can confidently access support and influence and instil change. Supporting communities where they are at

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starting with asking the community exactly what they want. Its about meeting people with their language and presenting community led research in a way that is appealing and excites people. For community led research to be somewhere the community can turn to for work. Having services integrated to feel more like a web of support that people can confidently access support and influence and instil change. Supporting communities where they are at

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We've been having quite a lot of discussion recently around ethics / practicalities of paid co-production?

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We've been having quite a lot of discussion recently around ethics / practicalities of paid co-production?

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Re co-priority survey: This is really important work, so thank you for promoting it.  I personally feel somewhat constrained by survey type questions in mentimeter which frame and create boundaries around how we respond.  That said, some great topics emerging.

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Re co-priority survey: This is really important work, so thank you for promoting it.  I personally feel somewhat constrained by survey type questions in mentimeter which frame and create boundaries around how we respond.  That said, some great topics emerging.

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Re question of whether / how to pay communities to be involved in research: Compensation cheapens.  but resourcing communities to do research that benefits them is very different.

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Re question of whether / how to pay communities to be involved in research: Compensation cheapens.  but resourcing communities to do research that benefits them is very different.

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We need everyone to read Donna Haraway's 'Situated Knowledges'!

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We need everyone to read Donna Haraway's 'Situated Knowledges'!

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We have found repeatedly that external researchers, who are not steeped in local lived experience, see things through different lenses, which is why they come up with the wrong results, and wrong policy suggestions.

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We have found repeatedly that external researchers, who are not steeped in local lived experience, see things through different lenses, which is why they come up with the wrong results, and wrong policy suggestions.

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Re ethics: Also key is the "power to refuse", whether as an individual, community or organisation - but what does that perhaps mean for funding, jobs etc.

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Re ethics: Also key is the "power to refuse", whether as an individual, community or organisation - but what does that perhaps mean for funding, jobs etc.

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How do we equalise power relations between communities and traditional research institutions.

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How do we equalise power relations between communities and traditional research institutions.

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Human impact and impact on communities in the Highlands and Islands from industrial scale wind farms, onshore and offshore; extractivism; human/non-human relations, e.g., respect for nature

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Human impact and impact on communities in the Highlands and Islands from industrial scale wind farms, onshore and offshore; extractivism; human/non-human relations, e.g., respect for nature

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Youth led research, how to keep research interactive. Also I would like to talk about how to facilitate conversations surrounding findings and how to create actual change

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Youth led research, how to keep research interactive. Also I would like to talk about how to facilitate conversations surrounding findings and how to create actual change

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How do we remove stigma for example - we're not just influencing the young people but wider family/society

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How do we remove stigma for example - we're not just influencing the young people but wider family/society

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Multiple meeting may be needed to respond comprehensively

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Multiple meeting may be needed to respond comprehensively

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Each of the areas, i.e power, representation, capacities... Would need a facilitated session to explore each area properly.

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Commentary on the consultation process from the perspective of communities in H&I

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Commentary on the consultation process from the perspective of communities in H&I

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Highlighting barriers to participating in the consultation, suggesting improvements that could be made to the process.

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Consultation events need to be creative, fun, and feel like it's worthwhile time in itself, so that it's designed for the participants, not for the consulting body. Generative, not extractive.

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What are we talking about when we say communities? Is it geographical, ideological etc.?

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A consultation process that is fun, meaningful, and gives something back to communities in and of itself (rather than relying on uncertain consultation outcomes)

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A consultation process that is fun, meaningful, and gives something back to communities in and of itself (rather than relying on uncertain consultation outcomes)

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A group response (powwerful) backed by individual submissions (offers detail) by those with the resource & time. Assist others to make submissions to minimise survey fatigue.

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A group response (powwerful) backed by individual submissions (offers detail) by those with the resource & time. Assist others to make submissions to minimise survey fatigue.

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maybe a collective response built on consultation with communities we're connected to?

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Using plain language, reaching out more actively to the people who you want to answer the consultation, building accountability into the process, explaining how the collected information will be used and where the outcomes will be presented.

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In our breakout we talked about the possibility of the network supporting people who would like to reply but have less capacity 

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In our breakout we talked about the possibility of the network supporting people who would like to reply but have less capacity 

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Of language used and ideas discussed.

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Accessibility being prioritised so that everyone who wants to be a part of the consultation can in a way that they are comfortable with

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Accessibility being prioritised so that everyone who wants to be a part of the consultation can in a way that they are comfortable with

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Bringing in previous relevant consultations to help voices being heard and help with consultation fatigue

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Bringing in previous relevant consultations to help voices being heard and help with consultation fatigue

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Inclusive and rigorous peacebuilding evaluation is both vital and complex. In this blog we share examples of how we are innovating our methodologies to move towards participatory and adaptive practice.

The challenges of peacebuilding evaluation

Peacebuilding processes and interventions are enmeshed in systemic relationships with multiple actors in dynamic and potentially volatile contexts. This complexity poses several challenges to Peacebuilding evaluation:

Fundamentally, there is little consensus on what the desired end state is and how to measure it. The absence of violence or negative peace is not the same as positive peace or the set of structures, institutions, behaviours and attitudes that sustain peaceful societies.

Conflict contexts do not follow stable trajectories and are subject to unpredictable and regular changes in their causal landscapes. Peace is also a highly political enterprise that introduces causal factors of both local and international origin that are difficult to discern, predict, or measure.

The stakes are high and the role of evaluation in collecting and using evidence carries risks, which impacts the quality of evidence we can gather.

The pathways through which outcomes are generated by peacebuilding interventions are unpredictable and highly relational.

Innovating with complexity-aware approaches

In response to these challenges, the peacebuilding evaluation field has been innovating with complexity-aware evaluation approaches. These designs favour learning by and through emergent processes of change and with multiple stakeholders, over measuring simple and predefined indicators of success. They centre the relational rather than the technical to fully appreciate how and for whom outcomes emerge at the individual, collective and broader systems levels. In particular, the use of participatory approaches can create and reinforce the collective knowledge of conflict-affected populations with respect to strategies for peace. This strengthens the potential for local stakeholders of varying positionalities to develop and walk along pathways out of conflict, ultimately making them more actionable.

We are part of this exciting moment for the peacebuilding evaluation field. We are a group of research and evaluation practitioners working in diverse contexts and organisations. Together, we are grappling with the opportunities and challenges we face as we innovate our methodologies and operationalise new ways of doing evaluation.

Our inspiration

We take inspiration from the ideas put forward by Robert Chambers in 2015 that reframed rigour as inclusive in order to embrace rather than reduce complexity. His seven canons (eclectic methodological pluralism, improvisation and innovation, adaptive iteration, triangulation, plural perspectives, optimal ignorance and appropriate imprecision, being open alert and inquisitive), stem from a participatory epistemology that underpins inclusive methods. Through this lens we began to make sense of our own M&E practice, through exploring: how we are being attentive to context; appreciating participatory evaluation design as an iterative process; and, looking in to focus on our roles as reflexive facilitators rather than objective judgers.

Applying the canons in our own learning process, we sought to combine and recombine these ideas to our context of peacebuilding M&E. We found further inspiration in Hallie Peskill and Jewlya Lynn's proposal for rethinking rigor for adaptive programmes, recently expanded by Thomas Aston and colleagues in the context of thinking and working politically. This highlighted how methodological choices influence the credibility and legitimacy of the claims that can be made (often referred to as internal validity). Responding to multiple stakeholders as methodological choices are made surfaces the tension we face when we embrace evaluation and programming as not simply technical endeavours but as primarily political and relational engagements. We experience and navigate these tensions first hand in the contested space which shapes and is shaped by peacebuilding programming.

An emerging integrated framework

Our exploration of these frameworks has resulted in an emerging integrated framework through which we are intentionally learning across the specifics of our experiences, approaching them as experiments in the practice of inclusive rigour. We expect the framework will continue to evolve as we deepen our learning.

Our framework suggests that inclusive rigour in M&E practice becomes operational through three interconnected domains (shown in the centre of the framework).

The domain of methodological bricolage includes negotiating and making decisions about appropriate design, methodological mixing and choices of specific methods and tools we bring together for the purpose of understanding and evaluating causal pathways - the how of our practice.

The domain of quality of participation and inclusivity is how we pay attention to the ways in which our processes open up or close down space for different forms of knowledge, particularly of the most marginalised stakeholders (in peacebuilding this might be populations affected by conflict, or stakeholders that are legally or normatively deemed as 'the enemy') to be included meaningfully - the who of our practice.

The domain of utilization is where we strive to respond to different stakeholder needs for evidence and evaluation to inform decision making and achieve the ultimate goal of improved PB programming - the why of our practice.

The intersections between and across the three domains offer fertile ground for exploring both synergies and tensions, where potential levers for shifting practice might be found.

Examples of our framework in practice
Combining and recombining methods in context to ensure critical reflection and optimize learning and adaptation:
The Mali community driven peace programme is implemented through a four-way partnership between Institut Malien de Recherche Action pour la Paix, Interpeace, the Institute of Development Studies and Humanity United. Systemic Action Research is used as a mechanism for generating innovative solutions for community driven peace in Mali. The MEL system for the programme is embedded in the action research design, and includes a combination of real-time documentation of change, linked to iterative cycles of learning, and the use of goal independent evaluation methods such as outcome evidencing within an overarching contribution analysis design.
Ensuring effective participation and inclusion through our methods and processes to stay focused on local demands and being responsive to local needs:
The Images and Indicators project integrated photovoice methods with Everyday Peace Indicators in a participatory indicators process with the aim of amplifying community voices and enhancing the potential for embedding community-level peacebuilding processes. The project explores how combining different forms of participatory methods creates opportunities for multi-faceted learning that attends to research, policy and community priorities. The team proposes that mixed visual and non-visual participatory methods, in this case participatory numbers and photography, complement and amplify each other to embed peacebuilding processes and generate evidence that is complex, empirically robust and transformative.

The South Sudan Cohort 0 (CO) programme is an innovative accompaniment partnership between the Unyoke Foundation, Search for Common Ground, the HiveMind Institute, and Humanity United. It is a multi-year investment in key relationships and networks with the capacity for sustainable responses to recurring system dynamics. Designed around constant cycles of iteration and learning that allow the partners over the long-term to adapt based on lessons that emerge from the programme, C0's innovative approach to monitoring and evaluation centres on South Sudanese priorities and responsiveness to emergence, and is aimed at building a framework of long-term signs of change by combining adapted outcome harvesting and social network analysis.
Responding to the learning needs of multiple stakeholders within and beyond the project:
The Power and Relationships research initiative in Colombia led by Adapt Peacebuilding in collaboration with Humanity United analyses the implementation of the Colombian peace agreement via municipal peace councils. It focuses upon how horizontal relationships between citizens at a community level and vertical relationships between citizens and state are re-established and leveraged towards peace in the context of unequal power relations. The research compares traditional and participatory peacebuilding methodologies (Systemic Action Research), to ascertain whether more participatory approaches contribute to better peacebuilding outcomes through the differential modulation of relationship patterns and power dynamics. Data is collected and analysed using complexity-aware evaluation methods, including outcome harvesting and process tracing.

Stay tuned for more detail in our upcoming blogs which will share detail of our learning from these examples.
About the authors Dioma Alamoussa is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer at the Institut Malien de Recherche Action pour la Paix Marina Apgar is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies Ángela Maria Báez-Silva is Programme Development Manager at Adapt Peacebuilding Helene Bradburn is the Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer at Interpeace Ayak Chol Deng is a peacebuilder in the 641M network in South Sudan and co-founder of Anataban Arts Initiative Edwin Cubillos is a human rights activist, photographer and cultural manager and the Photovoice Coordinator at Everyday Peace Indicators
Tiffany Fairey is a Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and Photovoice Associate at Everyday Peace Indicators Stephen Gray is the Director of the International NGO Adapt Peacebuilding. Stephen is also a doctoral researcher on questions of power and peacebuilding at the Institute of Development Studies Livia Rohrbach currently serves as Search for Common Ground's Regional Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation Officer for the Horn of Africa and the Sudans. Leslie Wingender is a Director on the Peacebuilding team at Humanity United

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Innovating for inclusive rigour in peacebuilding evaluation - Institute of Development Studies

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Inclusive and rigorous peacebuilding evaluation is both vital and complex. In this blog we share examples of how we are innovating our methodologies to move towards participatory and adaptive practice.

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I am a GP, rural health advocate and podcaster.  My interest is in bridging the gap between rural health and policy.  Currently doing a MSc in Global Health Policy with the Uni of Edinburgh.
I host a podcast that focuses on amplifying rural health voices: theruralroadtohealth.blog
I am also part of EURIPA - the European Rural and Isolated Practitioner Association, bringing a European perspective to this space.
Looking forward to learning from you all.

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Capacity issues in community organisations

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Capacity issues in community organisations

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In how evidence influences policy

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peer research influencing decision makers - different examples happening

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peer research influencing decision makers - different examples happening

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Independent researcher, currently working at the University of Galway on a project exploring how rural communities feel about climate and climate change: http://rockandcoal.ie/

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Participation fatigue in smaller communities, especially amongst young people. 

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Participation fatigue in smaller communities, especially amongst young people. 

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How to acknowledge the different challenges faced by different rural communities?

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How to acknowledge the different challenges faced by different rural communities?

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Rural communities differ in their characteristics and the capacity they have to address challenges. How can the network address this?

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Community & Digital Engagement Officer for Highlands & Islands Climate Hub

The Hub supports community groups across the Highlands, Orkney and Shetland to help them embed climate action into their work or develop climate action projects of their own.

I work in Inverness and the Inner Moray Firth (Inverness, Inverness-shire, Nairn and Badenoch & Strathspey)

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Specifically the negative emotions that young people feel faced with climate change and the transition to net zero and how we can help them to be heard.

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Young people who are engaged in their communities and having their voices heard in the decision making processes.

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Young people who are engaged in their communities and having their voices heard in the decision making processes.

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Young Islanders Network- September 2023 Newsletter

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It has been another busy month for Young Islanders! We cannot say this enough, but we really are in awe of all the amazing work and the passion that you Young Islanders bring to what you do. You are

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Learning to see the world, and the diversity of knowledges about the world, through the lens of relationships... How knowledge is always entangled in relationships, context, values and beliefs etc

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The potential for this enterprise to bridge academia, community and policy

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The potential for this enterprise to bridge academia, community and policy

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Assistant Trust Co-ordinator for a Veterans their families and the wider community charity based in Garelochhead.

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Anna Lynch- project leader of Safe Space Inverness/ Inari Collective.
We are a youth-led collaborative, participatory research to develop a safe space for young people (16-26) in Inverness who are from any underrepresented groups such as (but not exclusive to): LGBTQI+, ethnic minority, carers, care experienced and/or neurodiverse. The young people are central to the design and delivery of the project, and therefore the research is designed and conducted by young peer-researchers who are being supported by two academic researchers.
More info here: www.inaricollective/projects

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We work independently and with various clients, bringing collaborators together to help them design, re-design or deliver projects .

We practice what we preach by creating our own projects and getting them off the ground.

Check our current projects below.

Safe Space Inverness

The project is a youth-led collaborative, participatory research to develop a safe space for young people (16+) in Inverness who are from any underrepresented groups such as (but not exclusive to): LGBTQI+, ethnic minority, carers, care experienced and/or neurodiverse. This project is funded by The Ideas Fund. The Ideas Fund is delivered by the British Science Association and funded by Wellcome.

The young people are central to the design and delivery of the project, and therefore the research is designed and conducted by young peer-researchers who are being supported by two academic researchers, as well as a small team of consultants and a project lead.

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We are setting the project up as a constituted community group and we are working in accordance with the Safeguarding Policy, Data Protection Policy and Anti-Bullying Policy (links available below).

Helping young people to design and create a psychologically safe space where they can learn about and explore their feelings and emotions by using different, chosen forms of engagement i.e. film, art therapy and/or (social) entrepreneurship. Researching the impact of increased self-awareness and emotional intelligence on confidence, resilience and mental health and wellbeing.

We want to help the young people to find the language to express themselves outside the traditional therapeutic setting.

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We work independently and with various clients, bringing collaborators together to help them design, re-design or deliver projects . We practice what we preach by creating our own projects and getting them off the ground. Check our current projects below.

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Young people in leadership and governance and peer research teams evolving 

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Young people in leadership and governance and peer research teams evolving 

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We are facing a climate emergency. Young people feel really strongly about this and I want to use my skills as a poet to help them express themselves creatively about the issue and to help them to be heard. If you want to connect, I'm hag@mandyhaggith.net

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Post doc researcher as UHI RHW (for now). Interested in peer research, coproduction and communities of all kinds

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Senior development worker - Young Islanders Network at Youth Scotland. I am also a non executive director for NHS Western Isles. I am from and based in the Isle of Lewis.

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Co-Director of the Scottish Policy & Research Exchange, working to support more ethical, equitable and effective use of evidence and expertise in public policy

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Would like to discuss good practices on getting young people actually embedded in the groups, systems and processes we use.

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Would like to discuss good practices on getting young people actually embedded in the groups, systems and processes we use.

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My new role involves use of evidence to support changes in adult social care, so interested to hear where people have used lived and living experience, practioner insight, research, academic - and where this has been listened to / made genuine change

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My new role involves use of evidence to support changes in adult social care, so interested to hear where people have used lived and living experience, practioner insight, research, academic - and where this has been listened to / made genuine change

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I’d like to talk about how to initiate and undertake research in the community around mental health and well being and human impact in relation to industrialisation of landscape/s and seascapes; solastalgia

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I’d like to talk about how to initiate and undertake research in the community around mental health and well being and human impact in relation to industrialisation of landscape/s and seascapes; solastalgia

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To be aware of research needs in the Highlands and Islands.

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To be aware of research needs in the Highlands and Islands.

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Next steps and how to help promote opportunities to community members/community groups

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Next steps and how to help promote opportunities to community members/community groups

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I would like to chat about LGBT research or public speaking opportunities or Student Engagement researchers

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I would like to chat about LGBT research or public speaking opportunities or Student Engagement researchers

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People get involved because they want to make impact - not necessarily because of renumeration 

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People get involved because they want to make impact - not necessarily because of renumeration 

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Final year p/t PhD researcher with UHI - reducing mental health recovery in rural H&I. Also collaborator with Caberfeidh Horizons, Kingussie, Badenoch Shinty Memories, ARC - The Gathering Place

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ALISS Programme Engagement and Insights Manager - Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

https://www.aliss.org/about-aliss/

https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/about-the-alliance/

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ALISS is a national digital programme enabling people and professionals to find and share information on health and wellbeing resources, services, groups, and support in their local communities and online.

ALISS can help you find information about resources like:

services that provide support for managing long term conditions

groups that support social and community connection (e.g., local choirs, book groups, befriending)

activities that offer opportunities for getting more active and for getting outdoors (e.g., badminton clubs, community gardens)

practical, legal, and financial support (e.g., money advice, advocacy services)

digital technology that can support health and social care (e.g., online forums, health related mobile apps).

ALISS aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the right information, at the right time, about resources that are available to help them live well and stay connected to their community.

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Resources you can find on ALISS are added and edited by people living and working in the community. This means that if you cannot find the service you are looking for, you can add it to the system by creating an account.
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Find out more about ALISS, the national digital programme enabling people to connect to their local commuity.

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Connecting c-l research with community action planning

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Connecting c-l research with community action planning

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I'd like to explore how community evidence/research connects to local action planning and influences the wider planning landscape (Development Planning, Community Planning, etc.)

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Building inclusion in a rural/H&I context  

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Building inclusion in a rural/H&I context  

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Health in H&I from a historical perspective 

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Health in H&I from a historical perspective 

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Exploring how wellbeing connects with climate change and action

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Exploring how wellbeing connects with climate change and action

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Connections based on nature and wellbeing 

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Connections based on nature and wellbeing 

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Doesn't need to be a homogenous language even if it's shared

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Doesn't need to be a homogenous language even if it's shared

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Are there any good peer research/research explainers?

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Are there any good peer research/research explainers?

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How do move away from "research" only belonging from universities? 

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How do move away from "research" only belonging from universities? 

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(Or should it? How is it used in other settings)

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How do we move away from the word "research" - which has loads of connotations 

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How do we move away from the word "research" - which has loads of connotations 

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Showing how engagement with heritage can be transformative for those living with mental health problems in the present.  

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Showing how engagement with heritage can be transformative for those living with mental health problems in the present.  

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I'm Jacquie Steel, Network Support Officer at Youth Highland. We work mostly from home, to help reduce our environmental footprint by driving so much - but we're in our office in Dingwall every Thursday. The Pillar Box, High St. Dingwall. IV15 9HA. Do pop in for a cuppa if you're passing by! :)

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I'm Jacquie Steel, Network Support Officer at Youth Highland. We work mostly from home, to help reduce our environmental footprint by driving so much - but we're in our office in Dingwall every Thursday. The Pillar Box, High St. Dingwall. IV15 9HA. Do pop in for a cuppa if you're passing by! :)

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The enormity of the issues facing us in relation to climate change, sustainability and climate justice and technologies including rapid development of technologies.