The Deliberative Mapping project aims:
- To examine how far scientific, expert-driven risk assessment techniques can be reconciled with deliberative approaches to public consultation
- To develop a new approach to public consultation and technology assessment, called Deliberative Mapping
- To test this new approach through a full-scale public consultation exercise - involving a range of experts and four North London based citizens' panels - in an assessment of the future options for the treatment of end-stage kidney failure
The findings of this project are reproduced in the final report, and described in a number of journal articles, including:
"Deliberative mapping: a novel analytic-deliberative methodology to support contested science-policy decisions", in Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 16, No. 3, 299-322 (2007), available from Sage.
We have also produced a series of briefing papers, in Adobe® PDF format. You can read and print them with the free Adobe Reader software.
- Opportunities and challenges for involving citizens in decision making
- The Deliberative Mapping approach
- Deliberative Mapping in practice: the 'kidney gap'
- Citizens' panels in Deliberative Mapping: a user guide
- Using the Multi-Criteria Mapping (MCM) technique
To learn more about the Multicriteria Mapping methodology and the software tools available to support interviews and subsequent analysis, please email:
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