CSIRO, ANU combined workshop
Thursday 27 July 2006 10:00am-3:30pm
About the Workshop
Venue: CSIRO Discovery Centre, Black Mountain Laboratories
The objective of this workshop was to provide an opportunity to reflect and explore the role of participatory practices within the research activities of CSIRO and policy making more generally.
This initiative brought together researchers from CSIRO and Australian Universities who have conducted participatory and deliberative research. Drawing on theoretical work and practical experience the workshop explored avenues for improving the interface with decision outputs. The workshop will consider questions of appropriateness (what is the appropriate nature of impact) and effectiveness (in terms of level of impact) as well as the relationship between the ideal of deliberative participation and practical outcomes, and whether they reflect the real nature of decisions.
These questions were initially be addressed by way of overview presentations. Professor John Dryzek (Australian National University) presented on the influence of public deliberation on policy from international experience, and Steve Rayner (University of Oxford) on the relationship between science, society and public policy.
The issues raised were then be assessed through the lens of Australian experiences with deliberative participatory processes using case studies, primarily drawn from across CSIRO.
Important questions regarding the level of impact on science and policy were addressed. Ways in which barriers to achieving an appropriate impact of deliberative/participatory processes on science and policy might be achieved were also explored.
The workshop program and links to presentations can be found here.
The summary of the workshop and the key issues discussed during the workshop can be found here
