Discussion
The study’s assessment of research priorities is based on three key measures that the study identified: the strength of evidence indicating the existence of a research gap; the extent to which the research would address the needs of organisations; and the extent to which the research would address the needs of communities. No individual research topic scored highly on all of these measures (Boyd et al, 2012), so it is prudent to set priorities at a more general level. The feasibility of research to answer specific questions should be assessed during the commissioning process. Communities and organisations appear to have different views, particularly with regard to what are the most important topics needing research. Analysis of the workshop rankings (Figure 3) suggests that Cluster 1 is a high priority for communities but less so for organisations, while the remaining clusters are higher priorities for organisations than for communities, with Cluster 4 having very little resonance for communities. Some of these differences may reflect the lack of visibility to the general public of internal organisational workings, and also a lack of awareness of community concerns among emergency planners located within large organisations. This suggests the importance of trying to increase mutual understanding between organisations and communities and of planning involving a wide range of stakeholders. There are differences between the U.K. and U.S. contexts that should be reflected in the research priorities of the two countries. Among other things, the United States has a greater incidence of extreme weather and a more complex legal situation, with both federal and state laws. Nevertheless, many of the research gaps identified by previous U.S.-focused scoping studies are also relevant to the U.K., and there would appear to be scope for collaboration between research commissioners, including the U.K. government departments and commissioners in the United States, to compare research priorities, coordinate commissioning, develop commissioning models and build capacity to conduct research, learning from the experiences of the Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers in the United States.
DiscussionThe study’s assessment of research priorities is based on three key measures that the study identified: the strength of evidence indicating the existence of a research gap; the extent to which the research would address the needs of organisations; and the extent to which the research would address the needs of communities. No individual research topic scored highly on all of these measures (Boyd et al, 2012), so it is prudent to set priorities at a more general level. The feasibility of research to answer specific questions should be assessed during the commissioning process. Communities and organisations appear to have different views, particularly with regard to what are the most important topics needing research. Analysis of the workshop rankings (Figure 3) suggests that Cluster 1 is a high priority for communities but less so for organisations, while the remaining clusters are higher priorities for organisations than for communities, with Cluster 4 having very little resonance for communities. Some of these differences may reflect the lack of visibility to the general public of internal organisational workings, and also a lack of awareness of community concerns among emergency planners located within large organisations. This suggests the importance of trying to increase mutual understanding between organisations and communities and of planning involving a wide range of stakeholders. There are differences between the U.K. and U.S. contexts that should be reflected in the research priorities of the two countries. Among other things, the United States has a greater incidence of extreme weather and a more complex legal situation, with both federal and state laws. Nevertheless, many of the research gaps identified by previous U.S.-focused scoping studies are also relevant to the U.K., and there would appear to be scope for collaboration between research commissioners, including the U.K. government departments and commissioners in the United States, to compare research priorities, coordinate commissioning, develop commissioning models and build capacity to conduct research, learning from the experiences of the Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers in the United States.
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