Environmental Health Insights (Journal)

Barrington, D. (Guest editor)

Population and Public Health

Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity

Description

Chief Guest Editor for Special Collection on Learning from Failure in Environmental and Public Health Research

Period	8 Jan 2020 → 31 Mar 2022
Type of journal	Journal
ISSN	1178-6302
Degree of Recognition	International

Documents & Links

Environmental and public health research endeavours regularly fail. Sometimes this means that programmes do not achieve their stated aims; other times these failures are setbacks that can be rectified with sufficient reflection and action. In the worst cases, the purported ‘beneficiaries’ of research and practice are harmed through the unintended consequences borne of admirable intentions. These tales of failure are rarely shared publically, in part due to a culture of covering up things that go wrong, individually, institutionally and sectorally. This special issue offers researchers the opportunity to share when things have gone wrong, or where their hypotheses have been proven wrong and returned null results. There are also papers on why the risk of failure may be the only way of innovating in some fields, and what this means practically. This is important as sharing the lessons they have learnt, and the actions they have taken, means that other professionals can avoid making the same mistakes; investing in research which may waste time or money, or negatively impact the well-being of those involved.

Related content

Research output
Learning from Failure in Environmental and Public Health Research
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Fail Fast, Fail Forward, Fail Openly: The Need to Share Failures in Development
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
How to reduce failure in the Zimbabwean WASH sector
Research output: Other contribution
Blunders, Bloopers and Foul-Ups: Sharing Failures in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programs
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication
Toilets of the future must be designed with people in mind, not technology
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication
How to reduce failure in the Malawian WASH sector
Research output: Other contribution
Research Brief: Amplifying local voices to reduce failure in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
Research output: Other contribution
Amplifying local voices to reduce failures in faecal sludge management
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
Learning From and Preventing Failure in WASH
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication › peer-review
Why shit happens: Amplifying the voices of frontline WASH professionals to reduce failure in the sector
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
How to reduce failure in the South African WASH sector
Research output: Other contribution
Failing better in the WASH sector: Acknowledging the elephant in the WASH room
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
Words Fail Us: Racism in International Development Publishing
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication

Press/Media
The Sidekick Manifesto, Water You On About? (podcast)
Press/Media: Press / Media
Talking About Failure, Disasters: Deconstructed (podcast)
Press/Media: Press / Media
WASH Failures, FSMA Presents (podcast)
Press/Media: Press / Media