Summary

This Unit has provided an introduction to Evidence Cafés. You have been introduced to the process for an Evidence Café and learned how they can be an effective way of collecting diverse views and different types of evidence for a complex issue. In particular this Unit has reviewed the background to Evidence Cafés, how they were developed as a knowledge exchange activity to help bridge the gap between research and practice, and finally how they have been used to bridge the gap between diverse ranges of people from different social and professional backgrounds.

Unit learning outcomes:

• This Unit has introduced and developed your understanding of Evidence Cafés as a process for knowledge exchange with migration issues.
• Using the Evidence Café process has helped you critically analyse the role of knowledge exchange processes in migration issues and how stakeholder perspectives are associated with a particular issue and through an Evidence Café how to support communication and collaboration with those stakeholders.
• You now have an understanding of different Evidence Café processes as well as how these can be related to the context of migration knowledge exchange.
• You have been introduced to how you can use Evidence Cafés as a process to construct and communicate with migration stakeholders.
• You have practically reflected upon applying Evidence Cafés within the migration context. This has required developing an understanding of collaborating with diverse migration stakeholders and how to collect their different perspectives as part of an Evidence Café process.

In Unit 2 Migration debate [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]   you will watch a video which involves different stakeholders involved in the topic of migration discussing diverse pieces of evidence and hear their perspectives on this broad topic.