Maureen O’Callaghan
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Science Excellence and Impact
Understanding the benefits, challenges and impact of BioHeritage’s approach to mission-led research.
This research is Completed
Overview Te Tirohanga Whānui
BioHeritage made an early commitment to co-design research with our Treaty and industry partners, endusers and communities, to maximise the impact and uptake of research outcomes. Co-design is challenging to execute and in this Pou we are working to document, publish and share the learnings gained from our approach to mission-led science. It is important to document and share the advantages, challenges and unintended consequences of our values-led approach, to allow the broader scientific community and funders of science to learn from our experiences.
Within the Science Excellence and Impact Pou, a research team has been tasked with quantifying the effect of BioHeritage’s approach on traditional science metrics, such as publications, and identify other (new) metrics that may better describe science excellence and impact. Te Aho Mātauranga, the Māori leadership rōpu, is also working to define and share measures of excellence and impact that are more meaningful and relevant to Māori researchers and communities.
Finally, we are working to collate and share the many diverse impacts our research has had on biodiversity and society in Aotearoa.
Co-leads Ngā kaiārahi ngātahi
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Team Members Ngā kaimahi
- Susanna Finlay-Smits; Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
- Aisling Rayne; Cawthron Institute
- Helen Warburton; University of Canterbury
- Kerri-Anne Edge; Edge Effect
- Zoe Hamilton; University of Canterbury
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Resource outputs from this programme
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Crazy & Ambitious 4 – 2024
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022, at Te Papa,…
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BRIEF: Learning from a National Science Challenge
Biodiversity and biosecurity research helps to sustain a thriving environment, economy and society. But researchers and research programmes are often hindered by resourcing, institutional silos,…
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BRIEF: Co-designing a research programme for impact – doing science differently
BioHeritage’s mission is to reverse the decline of New Zealand’s biological heritage, through a national partnership to deliver a step change in research innovation, globally…
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BRIEF: Doing science differently
New Zealand’s National Science Challenges (NSCs) were created as experiments in ‘mission-led’ research to reduce competition and address national-scale challenges. The end of the NSCs…
Publication
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
The current science system is unjust — from the systems that determine its membership to its outputs and outcomes. We advocate for contextually responsive, collective…
Publication
Co-designing a research programme for impact: lessons learned from practice by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho
Doing co-design and co-production is challenging, resource intensive, and outcomes do not always translate into action. Evaluations of processes are needed to identify what enables…