Can we transfer BC methods between disciplines?
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Complexity and the Art of Evaluation – Reporting Sheet
Topic: Can we transfer BC methods between disciplines?
Leader: Millicent Burke (millicentburke@gmail.com)
Participants: Helga Svendsen, Kirsty Fenton, Michael Baranovic, Cheryl Samarasuphe, Danielle Kennedy, Marcia Hewitt, Ian Grant, Bruce Paton, Jonathan Russell, Rebecca Petit
Key Points:
• There are many different BC models used today.
• Models are inherently limited (they are linear, they cannot capture the complexity of people – their motives, their behaviour).
• A common language could both assist and limit us (eg. Assist discussions but also assist assumption – define “evaluation”).
• Aware of the above limitations of models and language – it could be useful to have a compilation of models and situations where they have worked and not worked.
• From this a matrix of factors to consider may assist us in finding the ‘best’ model currently available.
• This matrix would need to include – timescales, resources, connectedness of community, values focussed on, etc.
• BC Matrix Model factors:
– Self interest eg, AIDS
– Timescale (affect now, yes)
– Geographic
– Complexity of message (eg, climate change is highly complex)
– Completeness of science (eg, climate change – scientists don’t agree)
– Prior Learning
– Limitations of models – constraints
– *Complexity of people difficult to capture in a model*
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