Challenges and risks in doing good and beautiful research (ATS project)
| Research/Intervention question | Complexities brought on by the context | Epistemological and methodological risks |
|---|---|---|
| The goal is to support the planning process aimed at assisting family caregivers through the construction of an interinstitutional network and the development of shared actions among public bodies, private social actors and local professionals. The request was to accompany the project while considering the plurality of stakeholders, organizational constraints and territorial specificities | The project is developed within a dense institutional ecosystem composed of ASSTs, municipalities, social districts, public institutions and third-sector organizations. Each stakeholder brings with them different objectives, decision-making timelines and operational languages, exacerbating the difficulties involved in the coordination and alignment of actions. Added to these are strict regulatory constraints, limited financial resources, frequent turnovers in roles and contacts and the growing variabilities in the health and social needs the project aimed to address. These factors generate nonlinear project trajectories that require continuous rethinking of strategies, priorities and operational structures | One epistemological risk entails reducing the context's complexity to theoretical and standardized organizational models designed elsewhere and ill-suited to grasp local specificities. Another risk is the possible marginalization of practitioners' experiences and of knowledge embedded in local territories. On a methodological level, one such risk is using rigid tools and techniques that are poorly adaptable and unhelpful in accompanying an evolving project. Another risk is the difficulty of valuing relational processes and meanings that emerge throughout the project's timeline |
| Research/Intervention question | Complexities brought on by the context | Epistemological and methodological risks |
|---|---|---|
| The goal is to support the planning process aimed at assisting family caregivers through the construction of an interinstitutional network and the development of shared actions among public bodies, private social actors and local professionals. The request was to accompany the project while considering the plurality of stakeholders, organizational constraints and territorial specificities | The project is developed within a dense institutional ecosystem composed of ASSTs, municipalities, social districts, public institutions and third-sector organizations. Each stakeholder brings with them different objectives, decision-making timelines and operational languages, exacerbating the difficulties involved in the coordination and alignment of actions. Added to these are strict regulatory constraints, limited financial resources, frequent turnovers in roles and contacts and the growing variabilities in the health and social needs the project aimed to address. These factors generate nonlinear project trajectories that require continuous rethinking of strategies, priorities and operational structures | One epistemological risk entails reducing the context's complexity to theoretical and standardized organizational models designed elsewhere and ill-suited to grasp local specificities. Another risk is the possible marginalization of practitioners' experiences and of knowledge embedded in local territories. On a methodological level, one such risk is using rigid tools and techniques that are poorly adaptable and unhelpful in accompanying an evolving project. Another risk is the difficulty of valuing relational processes and meanings that emerge throughout the project's timeline |
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