Valuing Voices Tool
ResourcesValuing Voices Tool
What is this about?
The Valuing Voices Tool supports you to design and deliver equitable and responsible research projects. It is a practical approach to achieving meaningful, impactful and fundable research.
Five principles, four questions, one tool.
Who is it for?
- Researchers at all career stages: to support equitable and responsible research design and the development of grant applications
- Research enablers: to enhance the support you provide to researchers in developing research projects and grant applications
What is it?
- Five principles for equitable and responsible research
- Curated practical resources for each principle
- One guided results-based planning tool for research design
Why is this important?
Why use it?
- Improve your knowledge and application of equitable and responsible research practices
- Develop strong, comprehensive and deliverable research plans
- Articulate and evidence your research plans to funders
- Expand the real world impact of your research
For whom is this important?
What are the best practices?
The tool prompts reflection on the five principles, and uses results-based planning to help you apply them to your research project.
Results-based planning (similar to the Theory of Change approach) is a technique that starts with the end goal of your project, asking: What is the change you want to see in the world? For each principle we have provided you with a broad, ultimate goal for change – an outcome. You are asked to apply this outcome to your own research context, and decide what it should look like for your project in practical terms.
The tool will then guide you through the next steps of this process: identifying the outputs that will help you to achieve your outcome, the actions needed to get there, and the necessary resources.
