PA43D:
Science to Action: Metrics for Societal Impact of Research—What Do We Value, and How Do We Capture It? Posters


Submit an Abstract to this Session


Session ID#: 46943

Session Description:
The scientific community is increasingly interested in and under growing pressure to use research for the benefit of society. We are employing novel approaches that involve stakeholders in research. The linear model of specialist scientists operating separate from society is being augmented by collaborative approaches that connect research to actions. However, the metrics we use to measure the value and impact of research do not account for societal benefit. We are left with some fundamental questions: What aspects of the research process and its results are of value for science and for society? How do we incentivize, measure, and reward societal impact?

This session will explore metrics for measuring the societal value and impact of transdisciplinary research efforts. We invite papers that discuss examples of broader metrics, and processes through which we can value the impact of transdisciplinary research and collaborative engagement on society as well as science.

Primary Convener:  Kevin J Noone, Stockholm University, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden
Conveners:  Julia Kumari Drapkin, ISeeChange: Community Weather and Climate Journal, New Orleans, LA, United States, Sybil Seitzinger, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Crystal Raymond, Seattle City Light, Seattle, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kevin J Noone, Stockholm University, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden
Chairs:  Julia Kumari Drapkin, ISeeChange: Community Weather and Climate Journal, New Orleans, LA, United States and Sybil Seitzinger, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Kevin J Noone, Stockholm University, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
Index Terms:

0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Eleven Ways to Measure the Immeasurable and Count the Incalculable (384500)
Dwight Owens1, Kim Juniper2, Kate Moran3 and Benoit Pirenne3, (1)Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Estimating the Economic Value of Scientific Research on the Biological Carbon Pump (365675)
Ankur Shah1,2, Di Jin1 and Porter Hoagland1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Evaluating science to action amid changes to research funding and co-production (387410)
James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Inst, Basalt, CO, United States; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
The bottom line: measuring public financial investments in, and returns on, research (412845)
Matt Windsor1, Sissi J.J. Sun2, Kevin D. Frick2, Eric A. Swanson3, Philip J. Rosenfeld4 and David Huang5, (1)Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Rockville, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (4)Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, United States, (5)Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, United States

See more of: Public Affairs