Responsible Research and Innovation: Using the Requirements Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Developing a Universal Design for Learning Guidelines for Practice
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, G.H 5.77 Gateway House, Leicester LE1 0BH, UK
Sustainability 2019, 11(10), 2963; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102963
Received: 20 March 2019 / Revised: 18 April 2019 / Accepted: 19 April 2019 / Published: 24 May 2019
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is growing in importance, and alongside this growth is an acknowledgement that for research and innovation projects to be successful, stakeholders must be involved from the outset. When developing guidelines for practice, stakeholders will often be presented with a document to ratify rather than one to develop or revise. This gap in stakeholder engagement has been recognised and addressed by the development of the requirements tool. This tool was originally created to provide a systematic approach to the development of guidelines for the governance of RRI, but it was quickly recognised that the tool can bridge the gap and involve stakeholders from the outset, thereby increasing the likelihood of buy-in. This paper presents the second validated use of the tool that was used to inform the revision of guidelines for the introduction of a universal design for learning (UDL) at a UK University. The resulting revised guidelines for practice and their adoption by those tasked with producing them provide further evidence of the value and flexibility of the tool and its potential for its continued use in the future development or revision of guidelines.
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Keywords:
responsible research and innovation; requirements gap; requirements tool guideline development; stakeholder engagement
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Wilford SH. Responsible Research and Innovation: Using the Requirements Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Developing a Universal Design for Learning Guidelines for Practice. Sustainability. 2019; 11(10):2963. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102963
Chicago/Turabian StyleWilford, Sara H. 2019. "Responsible Research and Innovation: Using the Requirements Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Developing a Universal Design for Learning Guidelines for Practice" Sustainability 11, no. 10: 2963. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102963
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