改善健康:根据肥胖的社会需求绘制研究优先事项
Improving fitness: Mapping research priorities against societal needs on obesity
摘要:
科学政策正日益转向强调社会问题或重大挑战。因此,需要新的评估工具,不仅帮助评估研究方案或组织的知识生产方面,而且还评估研究议程与社会需求的衔接。在本文中,我们提出了一个探索性的调查,科学供应和社会需求的巨大挑战肥胖-一个新兴的健康问题,巨大的社会成本。我们说明了一种潜在的方法,使用主题建模来探讨:(a)如何科学出版物可以用来描述现有的优先事项在科学生产;(b)如何在欧洲议会提出的问题的记录可以被用来作为映射的社会需求话语的实例;(c)如何两者之间的比较可能会显示(错误)社会问题和科学产出之间的对齐。虽然这是一项技术性工作,但我们建议,这种类型的绘图方法可用于为供资机构的战略规划和评估提供信息。
英文摘要:
Science policy is increasingly shifting towards an emphasis in societal problems or grand challenges. As a result, new evaluative tools are needed to help assess not only the knowledge production side of research programmes or organisations, but also the articulation of research agendas with societal needs. In this paper, we present an exploratory investigation of science supply and societal needs on the grand challenge of obesity -an emerging health problem with enormous social costs. We illustrate a potential approach that uses topic modelling to explore: (a) how scientific publications can be used to describe existing priorities in science production; (b) how records of questions posed in the European parliament can be used as an instance of mapping discourse of social needs; (c) how the comparison between the two may show (mis)alignments between societal concerns and scientific outputs. While this is a technical exercise, we propose that this type of mapping methods can be useful for informing strategic planning and evaluation in funding agencies.
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