Example implications for practitioner-researchers, universities, and governments
| Amplify omnipresent influence | Towards sustainability | Axiological explication | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practitioner-researchers | Reflect on the ways in which own workplace practice is influenced, and specifically – what or who is present right now? What or who is influencing right now, but not present? How might these change under alternative future scenarios? | Reflect on the UN’s SDGs framework to highlight which goals are the most relevant to self and own workplace research – this can inform research focus and methodological perspective | Reflect on the type and forms of impact (including from the middle column) that are relevant to self, organisation, and any other networks that are personally relevant |
| During workplace research, periodically reflect on the ways in which own presence is influencing others right now, and the ways in which own presence might be influencing without being physically present. How might these reflections change under alternative future scenarios? | At the workplace research implementation stage, explore the conflicts, contradictions, and tensions in own research practice – notice which SDGs are evoked and how they relate/repel | Explore resonance and repellents between own stakeholder groups (as outlined above) and agree priority as well as complementary and supplementary areas | |
| During all stages of the workplace research project, notice the “arresting moments” and explore the variety of influences at play – use this information to help guide action in relation to the other two columns | Discuss the tensions generated in own workplace research practice with supervisors and other trusted advisors to aid sensemaking and find practical action steps | Ensure the desired impacts are supported by own methodological choices and own research programme – discuss with supervisors to ensure resonance | |
| Universities/research organisations | Ensure ethics training in workplace research programmes highlight and demonstrate the subtleties and nuances of influence and the potential rewards and risks within such conceptualisations | Utilise the UN’s SDGs framework to explore the dimensions of workplace researcher responsibility in research training | Discuss and agree the type and form of impacts, and where possible, do so at a variety of levels, for example, institutional, faculty, programme, programme team, research-supervisor |
| Provide “update training” to workplace research supervisors/facilitators to increase awareness of the subtleties and nuances of influence in workplaces | In addition to organisational agendas, frame workplace research projects in relation to the UN’s SDGs framework | Once specific types and forms of impact have been clarified, review infrastructures to enable the realisation of the desired impacts | |
| Ensure infrastructures and supervisory teams encourage the noticing of the subtleties and nuances of influence in workplaces, e.g. integrating into existing reflective log, action learning set, or other reflexive techniques | Model practical ways to navigate and deal with the complexities of becoming aware of tensions and contradictions, such as tools for overcoming dilemmas and double bind problem situations | Mirror impact intentions in the design of workplace research programmes and associated training | |
| Government/governing bodies | Re-orient conceptualisations of research impact to include forms of workplace research, which may be inter-disciplinary/transdisciplinary Re-orient proxy to include a greater weighting of narratives which have been validated by multiple stakeholder groups | Re-orient funding frameworks and mechanisms to prioritise the different dimensions of sustainability identified in the UN’s SDGs – in terms of topic areas, but also in terms of the the resources required to undertake the project and the plans in place to support responsible research practices | Re-orient funding frameworks and mechanisms to support the variety of different axiological positions that are explicated by different universities, whilst at the same time, explicating the body’s own stance for sustainability and impact |
| Amplify omnipresent influence | Towards sustainability | Axiological explication | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practitioner-researchers | Reflect on the ways in which own workplace practice is influenced, and specifically – what or who is present right now? What or who is influencing right now, but not present? How might these change under alternative future scenarios? | Reflect on the UN’s SDGs framework to highlight which goals are the most relevant to self and own workplace research – this can inform research focus and methodological perspective | Reflect on the type and forms of impact (including from the middle column) that are relevant to self, organisation, and any other networks that are personally relevant |
| During workplace research, periodically reflect on the ways in which own presence is influencing others right now, and the ways in which own presence might be influencing without being physically present. How might these reflections change under alternative future scenarios? | At the workplace research implementation stage, explore the conflicts, contradictions, and tensions in own research practice – notice which SDGs are evoked and how they relate/repel | Explore resonance and repellents between own stakeholder groups (as outlined above) and agree priority as well as complementary and supplementary areas | |
| During all stages of the workplace research project, notice the “arresting moments” and explore the variety of influences at play – use this information to help guide action in relation to the other two columns | Discuss the tensions generated in own workplace research practice with supervisors and other trusted advisors to aid sensemaking and find practical action steps | Ensure the desired impacts are supported by own methodological choices and own research programme – discuss with supervisors to ensure resonance | |
| Universities/research organisations | Ensure ethics training in workplace research programmes highlight and demonstrate the subtleties and nuances of influence and the potential rewards and risks within such conceptualisations | Utilise the UN’s SDGs framework to explore the dimensions of workplace researcher responsibility in research training | Discuss and agree the type and form of impacts, and where possible, do so at a variety of levels, for example, institutional, faculty, programme, programme team, research-supervisor |
| Provide “update training” to workplace research supervisors/facilitators to increase awareness of the subtleties and nuances of influence in workplaces | In addition to organisational agendas, frame workplace research projects in relation to the UN’s SDGs framework | Once specific types and forms of impact have been clarified, review infrastructures to enable the realisation of the desired impacts | |
| Ensure infrastructures and supervisory teams encourage the noticing of the subtleties and nuances of influence in workplaces, e.g. integrating into existing reflective log, action learning set, or other reflexive techniques | Model practical ways to navigate and deal with the complexities of becoming aware of tensions and contradictions, such as tools for overcoming dilemmas and double bind problem situations | Mirror impact intentions in the design of workplace research programmes and associated training | |
| Government/governing bodies | Re-orient conceptualisations of research impact to include forms of workplace research, which may be inter-disciplinary/transdisciplinary | Re-orient funding frameworks and mechanisms to prioritise the different dimensions of sustainability identified in the UN’s SDGs – in terms of topic areas, but also in terms of the the resources required to undertake the project and the plans in place to support responsible research practices | Re-orient funding frameworks and mechanisms to support the variety of different axiological positions that are explicated by different universities, whilst at the same time, explicating the body’s own stance for sustainability and impact |
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