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Great #Engage2020 session with @JensenWarwick and @inscico on evidencing public engagement. My big Q here is always should we be publishing negative results from programmes that haven’t had the intended impact?
I’d like to say yes as it’s really important to share what doesn’t work, but I worry about it devaluing our work in the eyes of academics we work with. Especially when there’s so much pressure from funders to ‘prove’ that what we do works.
A lot of this comes from the similar attitude in science publishing, where a null result isn’t deemed a significant contribution to the field. I would argue it can be just as important as a positive result.
