Scientific narrative for policy decision making

Steven Bishop University College London

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1. Steven Bishop
   University College London
   Scientific narrative for policy
   decision making
   

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2. Forms of scientific narrative
   Written
   Spoken
   Visual
   

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3. Written narratives
   Complex problems
   Comprehensive versus
   comprehensible
   

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4. Spoken narratives
   

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5. Metaphors
   Military
   Sport
   Naval
   

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6. Visual narratives
   A picture is worth a thousand words
   

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7. Images that we see everyday
   

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8. Humourous versions
   

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9. Humourous versions
   but with a story
   

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11. Lesson 1
    Create a strong and simple
    narrative, where possible
    combining written, oral and
    visual narrative
    

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12. Lesson 1
    Create a strong and simple
    narrative, where possible
    combining written, oral and
    visual narrative
    Get the narrative right and everyone
    gets the picture
    

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13. People go in as individuals
    and come out as an audience
    

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14. Policy narrative challenges
    • What the problem is and what it entails
    • Understand the models, the assumptions
    made, the limitations and conclusions
    • What the options are based on model
    outcomes
    • Enhance public participation in the process of
    decision making and provide feedback in the
    decision making process.
    

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15. Narrative technology
    • Capture existing efforts
    • Reality mining of social data
    • Multilingual and cultural aspects
    • Semantic and Sentiment Analysis
    • Dialogue mapping
    • Combining these to allow for automatic social
    inclusion and participation in decision making
    

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16. Digital story telling
    ICT Tools
    • Games
    • Muliti-media
    – Single images, videos, music, spoken
    or written text
    Used for
    • Training
    • Learning and education
    • Decision making and legitimising
    decisions taken
    

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17. Dreamer
    

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