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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
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
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
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
Waring, Justin; Jenelle, Clarke; Vickers, Rob – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Knowledge brokers facilitate the creation, sharing and use of knowledge among different research, policy and practice communities. This paper examines the way collective knowledge brokering can address the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic boundaries that separate research and practice communities. Methods: A comparative ethnographic…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Health Services, Medical Research, Facilitators (Individuals)
Aiello, Emilia; Donovan, Claire; Duque, Elena; Fabrizio, Serena; Flecha, Ramon; Holm, Poul; Molina, Silvia; Oliver, Esther – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: We are witnessing increasing demand from governments and society for all sciences to have relevant social impact and to show the returns they provide to society. Aims and objectives: This paper reports strategies that promote social impact by Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research projects. Methods: An in-depth analysis of six…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Social Science Research, Humanities, Research Projects
Chambers, Duncan; Rodgers, Mark; Preston, Louise; Dalton, Jane; Goyder, Elizabeth; Thomas, Sian; Street, Andrew; Eastwood, Alison – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Two UK academic centres were commissioned to provide a responsive rapid evidence synthesis service. The service covered topics identified by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services & Delivery Research (NIHR HSDR) programme as priorities for the National Health Service or to inform research commissioning. Aims and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Health Services, Foreign Countries
Bacon, Matthew; Shapland, Joanna; Skinns, Layla; White, Adam – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Police-academic partnerships have developed significantly over the past decade or so, spurred on by the expansion of the evidence-based policing movement, the increasing value attached to impactful research in the academy, the ascendance of the professionalisation agenda in the police, and the growing necessity of cross-sectoral…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation, Higher Education, Financial Support
Bynner, Claire; Terje, Anna – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Public service practitioners on all levels aim to solve increasingly complex policy problems by making use of different forms of evidence. While there are many complex models of knowledge mobilisation, not enough attention is paid to the types of knowledge that are mobilised for public service reform. Ward (2017) has returned to…
Descriptors: Public Service, Evidence, Change, Local Government
Woolham, John; Steils, Nicole; Forsyth, Kirsty; Fisk, Malcolm; Porteus, Jeremy – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: This paper discusses findings from a study of English Local Authority (LA) Adult (ASCDs) that explored how managers use telecare. A decade earlier, a large clinical trial, the 'Whole System Demonstrator' project (WSD), funded by the Department of Health (DH) investigated telecare's effectiveness in promoting and maintaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Administrators, Delivery Systems
Sheldrick, R. Christopher; Hyde, Justeen; Leslie, Laurel K.; Mackie, Thomas – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Many of the resources developed to promote the use of evidence in policy aspire to an ideal of rational decision making, yet their basis in the decision sciences is often unclear. Tracing the historical development of evidence-informed policy to its roots in "evidence-based medicine" (EBM), we distinguish between two understandings of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evidence Based Practice, Medicine, Expertise
Neely, Kate; Bortz, Martin; Bice, Sara – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
This article provides an appraisal of collaborative conceptual modelling (CCM) as a tool for research translation. First developed by Newell and Proust (2012), CCM draws on the tools and frameworks of systems thinking as a way of addressing transdisciplinary problems. We applied CCM in two separate workshops - one discussing 'Digital Cities', and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Utilization, Research and Development
Asgharzadeh, Asra; Shabaninejad, Hosein; Aryankhesal, Aidin; Majdzadeh, Reza – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Assessing individual and organisational capacity for evidence use is essential for developing evidence-based strategies. Aims and objectives: This study aimed to assess the psychometric and practical properties of existing tools to assess the capacity to use evidence at the individual and organisational levels of health policy and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Policy Formation, Public Health, Psychometrics
Norton, Theresa C.; Rodriguez, Daniela C.; Howell, Catherine; Reynolds, Charlene; Willems, Sara – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Little is known about how knowledge brokers (KBs) operate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to translate evidence for health policy and practice. These intermediaries facilitate relationships between evidence producers and users to address public health issues. Aims and objectives: To increase understanding, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Research Utilization, Public Health
Casanova, Emily L.; Widman, Cheryl J. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: The Medical Model of disability focuses on diagnosed conditions. It is used in policy particularly to categorise people. This enables predictions and forecasting about the size of policy needs but tends to homogenise disability representations, assigning a negative evaluation to illness that may be irrespective of patho-anatomical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Medicine, Models, Diversity