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STEPS Pathways Methods
PART 5
Towards repertoires of mixed methods
Professor Andy Stirling Co-director, STEPS Centre
www.steps-centre.org www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
www.multicriteria-mapping.org
INPUTS
(aspects taken into account within practice of research or appraisal)
problems, options, pros / cons, issues, uncertainties, perspectives
INPUTS
(things that are taken into account)
Pro
blems, options, pros / cons, issues, uncertainties, perspectives
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
Challenges for Research and Appraisal How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
OUTPUTS
(aspects that are conveyed outwards into wider discourse)
’Plural conditional’ conclusions…
… if X then A … if Y then B …
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
decision analysis
Challenges for Research and Appraisal How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
citizen’s juries
Challenges for Research and Appraisal How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
citizen’s juries
participatory rural appraisal
q-method
deliberative mapping
scientometric mapping
open space
multi-criteria mapping
extended foresight
citizen’s juries
decision analysis
stakeholder negotiation
sensitivity analysis
cost-benefit analysis
risk assessment
interactive modelling
structured interviews
narrative-based participant observation
multi-site ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus conference
open hearings
dissenting opinions
Challenges for Research and Appraisal How more reflexively to inform policy and wider innovation governance?
spot-the-narrative
spot-the-narrative
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
citizen’s juries
decision analysis
participatory rural appraisal
stakeholder negotiation
q-method
sensitivity analysis
deliberative mapping
scientometric mapping
open space
cost-benefit analysis
risk assessment
interactive modelling
structured interviews
narrative-based participant observation
multi-site ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus conference
open hearings
dissenting opinions
multi-criteria mapping
extended foresight
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal Institutions privilege blinkered scope, marginal analysis, incumbent interests … evidence-basing, liability, insurance, agency remits, fiduciary responsibility
stakeholder negotiation
cost-benefit analysis
risk assessment
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
citizen’s juries
decision analysis
participatory rural appraisal
stakeholder negotiation
q-method
sensitivity analysis
deliberative mapping
scientometric mapping
open space
cost-benefit analysis
risk assessment
interactive modelling
structured interviews
narrative-based participant observation
multi-site ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus conference
open hearings
dissenting opinions
multi-criteria mapping
extended foresight
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
spot-the-narrative
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert / analytic
participatory / deliberative
Building Methods Repertoires Basis both for practical project methods – and systematic STEPS methodology
‘visions workshops’
‘dynamic MCM’
‘particip. epidem.’
‘top-bottom comparison’
‘network analysis’
‘insider ontologies’
