Glossary

Legislative Theatre is a participatory approach for improving people’s lives by developing policy and practice through a performance based on people’s lived experiences. It was developed in Latin America by Augusto Boal in the 1990s. Through an inclusive mix of play and reflection, participants engage with each other’s experience of oppression and identify structural causes and collective responses. During the Legislative Theatre performance, an audience of community members and policymakers play the crucial role of spect-actors interacting with the scenes to identify problems and explore solutions. The audience finally vote on policy priorities. A team of policymakers and professionals with influence on the issues explored in the play is invited to the performance and, by working with the actors and team, they commit to implement feasible actions to support positive change. Following the performance, the actors and the policymakers meet again to finalise the required policy actions and agree on a clear roadmap and deadlines. Legislative theatre brings fun and laughter into policymaking spaces; it creates a shared space where the community and policymakers can understand better experiences and perspectives that are often marginalised, working collectively towards more equitable and just policies.

Photovoice is a method in which participants use photos and stories about their photos to identify issues that are important to them, letting researchers better understand the issue they are studying . Fostering greater intersectional equality, photovoice can be used together with best practice evidence to develop effective and comprehensive strategies for addressing complex social issues in a meaningful way for communities. Through a process of expressing their voice, participants can learn how to express their demands, organise and act together to promote their interests. This experience can increase their confidence and active participation in community decision-making. Photovoice is an innovative and creative approach to strengthen marginalised voices in participatory policymaking. Upon releasing photo stories, results are shared with their communities to enable rapid knowledge exchange , which is essential for developing ecological and community-based interventions for optimal social wellness.

Living labs are characterized as user-centred, open innovation ecosystems that integrate research and innovation processes in real communities and locations. They are built on a systematic user co-creation methodology (Ruijsink, S., Smith, A. 2016[1]). The European Network of Living Labs[2] (ENoLL) highlights five essential elements that should be present in a living lab: 1) active user involvement, 2) a real-life setting, 3) multi-stakeholder participation, 4) a multi-method approach, and 5) co-creation. While not formally required, there is typically a significant emphasis on utilizing digital technology and data in practice. Recently, government agencies and private organizations in Bulgaria have shown interest in the prospect of citizen engagement to address complex policy issues. Combining the Living Lab approach with the Citizen Review Panel will offer a strong participatory framework that encourages innovation, enhances policy formulation, and ensures that the recommendations (for amendments of the national labour legislation) proposed by the Citizen Review Panel are user-centred and responsive to the needs of the target group. Moreover, it would help encourage participation in group discussions and support the group in gaining a better understanding of the policy they will be discussing. [1] Ruijsink, S., Smith, A. (2016) Transformative Social Innovation: European Network of Living Labs : summary report. TRANSIT: EU SSH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169. [2] https://enoll.org/task-forces/living-labs-as-regulatory-learning-tools/

Participatory Performance Lecture combines simulated practice integrated with an art-based teaching strategy. This includes firstly a presentation of the problem by the facilitators using both artistic and cognitive tools (sound design, light design, dance, argumentation, schemes presentation, critical analysis). The art-based argumentation opens and frames the so-called “facilitating environment” or “participatory playground” for the audience. Participants are then offered to share, express and discuss their standpoints, doubts, experience within the frameworks and discover their personal resources for resilience, problem shooting, collaboration, trust and well-being together with others.

The CRP method builds on the CIVISTI method, developed in 2008-2011 within the CIVISTI project, funded under FP7. The method was tested and further improved in a number of countries for engaging citizens in reviewing existing regional/local policies and proposing new policy measures and instruments. The CRP method is based on a deliberative approach (Elstub & Escobar, 2019[1]), which advocates for meaningful citizen engagement in policy deliberations. The method’s focus is on the active participation and direct contribution of citizens in policymaking. By allowing individuals to share their values, opinions, knowledge, and life experiences in the policy debate, Citizen Review Panels seek to ensure that citizens are as much a part of the change process as policymakers, stakeholders, and experts. The discussions with citizens offer a more practical and unbiased understanding of the policy areas. This deliberative method is beneficial for both citizens and policymakers. Citizens provide policymakers with direct input, enhancing their awareness of issues, concerns, and potential solutions from a different viewpoint. Citizens are also able to increase their understanding and acceptance of policy measures and instruments by expanding their knowledge, which in turn may inspire them to make improvements in their communities.[2] [1] Elstub, S., & Escobar, O. (2019). Defining and Typologising Democratic Innovations. In Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance (pp. 11-31). Massachussetts: Edward Elgar Publishing. [2] RRI Leaders - CITIZEN REVIEW PANEL MANUAL - Methodological guidelines for the organisation of citizen review panels.

We will carry out a Q-method survey with citizens and public officials from stakeholder organisations involved in the pilots to understand their attitudes on intersectional equality and participation, particularly their perceptions of barriers to and strategies for successfully realising inclusion. Q-methodology is an intensive, rank-ordering survey that facilitates people to reflect upon and articulate a viewpoint on complex and contested issues. It uses factor analysis to identify shared viewpoints amongst the participants. The results can distil the participants’ subjective perspective of the lessons from the pilots and provide a starting point for discussion in the coproduction workshops.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a method used for systematic comparison of small-, medium- and large-N datasets to find the causal pathways for producing an outcome. The outcome INSPIRE is examining is intersectional equality/equity. QCA's strengths are its ability to identify how multiple conditions work together to cause an outcome (intersectional equality/equity) and to uncover different paths that can lead to the same result. This makes it a good fit for studying intersectional equality/equity as there are probably different conditions explaining it. We will use QCA to find the conditions that either foster or hinder intersectional equality/equity in participatory deliberative processes and their recommendation.