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Guillot-Wright, Shannon; Oliver, Kathryn – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Despite the known need for empirical research-to-policy studies, little is known about the factors and conditions needed to support meaningful evidence use or how to intervene to promote quality evidence use. Aims and objectives: To study research-policy processes empirically and descriptively, we conducted an ethnography that focused…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Policy Formation, Theory Practice Relationship, Evidence Based Practice
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Auld, Megan; Doig, Emmah; Bennett, Sally – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Knowledge brokers in higher education are described as requiring a broad range of skills and characteristics, leading to both role conflict and ambiguity. Although existing studies report broad concepts regarding the role of knowledge brokers, the activities that they actually perform to broker knowledge are not systematically reported…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Universities, Role, Networks
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MacKillop, Eleanor; Downe, James – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Government-funded knowledge brokering organisations (KBOs) are an increasingly prevalent yet under-researched area. Working in the space between knowledge and policy, yet framing themselves as different from think tanks and academic research centres, these organisations broker evidence into policy. Aims and objectives: This article…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Research Projects, Evidence, Policy Formation
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Al Sabahi, Sultana; Wilson, Michael G.; Lavis, John N.; El-Jardali, Fadi; Moat, Kaelan – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Oman has prioritised enhanced efforts for supporting evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM), including establishing a knowledge translation department in the Omani Ministry of Health (MOH). Aim and objective: Our aim was to gather insights to guide the process of activating this department. Methods: We conducted a document review and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Public Agencies, Technology Transfer
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Bäck, Annika; von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica; Bergström, Anna; Hasson, Henna; Richter, Anne – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: A supportive context is essential for successful implementation processes. Local politicians are delivery system actors who might both enable and hinder the implementation of health and social policies. Aims and objectives: The study examines the relationship between perceived prerequisites and the type of actions taken by local…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Social Services, Program Implementation, Politics
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Neal, Jennifer Watling; Neal, Zachary P.; Brutzman, Brian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: A growing literature focuses on the roles of brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners (BIBS) in addressing the challenges of transferring research evidence between the research and practice or policy communities. Aims and objectives: In this systematic review, we examined two research questions: (1) where, how, and when are…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Facilitators (Individuals), Definitions, Information Dissemination
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Natow, Rebecca S. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: As calls for evidence-based policymaking become increasingly common, qualitative research has much to offer the policy community. However, policymakers frequently evidence a preference for quantitative research. By discounting the importance of qualitative research in the policymaking process, resulting policies and their target…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Qualitative Research
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Adelle, Camilla; Black, Gillian; Kroll, Florian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Post-positivist critics of the linear-rational understanding of the role of knowledge in decision making have long argued the need for the construction of socially robust knowledge to illuminate policy problems from a variety of perspectives, including lived experiences. Aims and objectives: This article charts the attempts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Food, Knowledge Level
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Phillips, Louise; Christensen-Strynø, Maria Bee; Frølunde, Lisbeth – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: In participatory research approaches, co-researchers and university researchers aim to co-produce and disseminate knowledge across difference in order to contribute to social and practice change as well as research. The approaches often employ arts-based research methods to elicit experiential, embodied, affective, aesthetic ways of…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Art, Research Methodology, Cooperation
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MacGregor, Stephen; Cooper, Amanda; Searle, Michelle; Kukkonen, Tiina – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Interest in using arts-informed approaches within research to increase stakeholder engagement is growing; however, there is little work describing how these approaches are operationalised across contexts. This article addresses that gap by exploring the use of arts-informed approaches across three projects. Aims and objectives: We…
Descriptors: Art, Inquiry, Cooperation, Research and Development
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Micsinszki, Samantha K.; Buettgen, Alexis; Mulvale, Gillian; Moll, Sandra; Wyndham-West, Michelle; Bruce, Emma; Rogerson, Karlie; Murray-Leung, Louise; Fleisig, Robert; Park, Sean; Phoenix, Michelle – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Co-design is an approach to engaging stakeholders in health and social system change that is rapidly gaining traction, yet there are also questions about the extent to which there is meaningful engagement of structurally vulnerable communities and whether co-design leads to lasting system change. The McMaster University Co-Design Hub…
Descriptors: Program Design, Cooperation, Stakeholders, Health Services
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Potts, Alina; Fattal, Loujine; Kolli, Harriet – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Humanitarian evidence is produced in settings of heightened power imbalances between research stakeholders. Yet evidence production processes often lack explicit reflection of who is shaping the questions asked and making meaning of the answers. Aims and objectives: Empowered Aid is participatory action research that seeks to mitigate…
Descriptors: Refugees, Females, Expertise, Sexual Abuse
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Spaa, Anne; Spencer, Nick; Durrant, Abigail; Vines, John – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Co-creation in policymaking is of increasing interest to national governments, and designers play a significant role in its introduction. Aims and objectives: We discuss instances from our fieldwork that demonstrated how UK Policy Lab used design methods to gain insight into the design-oriented methods introduced to policymakers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Decision Making, Creativity
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Hollands, Fiona M.; Pan, Yilin; Kieffer, Michael J.; Holmes, Venita R.; Wang, Yixin; Escueta, Maya; Head, Laura; Muroga, Atsuko – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Education decision makers are increasingly expected to use evidence to inform their actions. However, the majority of educational interventions have not yet been studied and it is challenging to produce high quality research evidence quickly enough to influence policy questions. Aims and objectives: We set out to gather evidence on the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Malin, Joel R.; Hornbeck, Dustin – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: In the US, and conspicuously via social media, we are witnessing an acceleration of what we term historical knowledge mobilisation: increasingly and in various ways, evidence derived from academic historical research is being shared with broader publics. Moreover, evidence-based and false or misleading historical claims are being…
Descriptors: History, Social Media, Evidence, Decision Making
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