Summary

When stakeholders share their understanding and evidence, it is important to support them in relating this to others’ perspectives and evidence bases. This Unit has supported you in understanding the valuable role and application of discussion objects to support equitable knowledge exchange during an Evidence Café. Done correctly, this creates a collaborative process for understanding migration issues and creating solutions. In particular, the use of discussion objects should help to connect different types and levels of evidence, and identify where the gaps are. In doing this, it ensures that future activities can fill gaps in our evidence, rather than repeating past research. This should help stakeholders to collectively identify ways to answer migration questions with appropriate evidence to underpin their answers.

Unit learning outcomes:

• This Unit has developed your understanding of discussion objects and the evidence typology tool for knowledge exchange.
• You now have an understanding of different types as well as levels of evidence to support migration knowledge exchange.
• Using the evidence typology has helped you critically analyse the levels and types of stakeholder evidence associated with a particular issue, and through an Evidence Café to support communication and collaboration with those stakeholders.
• You have been introduced to how you can use the evidence typology as a discussion object within an Evidence Café to communicate with migration stakeholders.
• You have practically reflected upon the construction and role of a discussion object.
• You have also adapted the evidence typology for your specific migration needs along with identifying other discussion objects that could be valuable for you to apply within an Evidence Café for you own specific professional context.

In Unit 6 Understanding Evidence Cafés [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , you will learn how to apply the concepts of discussion objects and migration evidence exchange into a practical context, through the setting up and running of a migration Evidence Café. This will enable you to apply these processes to support equitable exchange that allows all perspectives and voices to be heard and valued.