Good Questions Review
Good Questions Review is a living literature review on designing and implementing more valuable social science research.
It explores emerging insights about how social science research can be more useful for making decisions, and is guided by at least one of the following questions:
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches we currently identify, develop, and prioritise questions and set research agendas?
- What makes "good" questions in the social sciences for policy and program impact? How is this changing? How should it change?
- Who writes "good" questions? In what conditions and with what skills? Who needs to be involved for better questions addressing complex social issues?
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Who is Good Questions Review for?
Good Questions Review is written to be useful to many types of readers, including decision-makers in government, non-profit and the private sector; and academics from all disciplines. However, articles will also be written to provide enough substance for readers who are action-oriented research methods enthusiasts.
Article format
The articles will usually be between 1,000 to 4,000 words and will weigh up evidence relating to a specific question or prompt. As the collection of articles grows, a clearer picture develops as to what current social science research says about these questions.
Topics covered
- Methods for responding to decision-makers knowledge needs
- Approaches to incorporating a wider range of perspectives in the process of asking and answering questions
- Ways that research questions might be changing as our societies become increasingly data rich.
Contact us
Good Questions Review is written by Paul Kellner in his role as Research Fellow at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute through support from Open Philanthropy. Contact Paul on paul.kellner@monash.edu.