ScriptsMap: A Tool for Designing Multi-Method Policy-Making Workshops

This paper reports on the development and structure of a framework – ScriptsMap – intended to facilitate the design of mixed method policy-making workshops. The ScriptsMap framework aims to provide a means of articulating and combining activities (which a script specifies) from two or more methods s...

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Main Authors: Ackermann, Fran, Anderson, D., Eden, C., Richardson, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Baywood Publishing Company 2011
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030504831000126X
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28536
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Summary:This paper reports on the development and structure of a framework – ScriptsMap – intended to facilitate the design of mixed method policy-making workshops. The ScriptsMap framework aims to provide a means of articulating and combining activities (which a script specifies) from two or more methods so that a facilitator or group facilitation team can construct, with the framework’s aid, a thoughtful and careful design for a workshop. To provide an example of the framework, the combination of system dynamics group model building and group problem structuring incorporating causal mapping with the use of a Group Support System is used. The paper will illustrate ScriptsMap’s structure through an example of the use of the framework in practice.