Research and Resources
Commentary: First, do no harm: Scaling usable knowledge for just and equitable outcomes
November 18, 2021
Informing Institutional Change
With the commitment to produce usable science comes responsibility. We must understand who benefits from it and who doesn’t and at what cost. Scholars have called for new ethics for researchers practicing engaged science (e.g., Wilmer et al. 2021). The normative questions of whose “use” matters, whose values are attended to, and whose are not, and who has power in the process of producing actionable science pose some of the most exciting and important research directions for the future.
