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Making Research Matter : Steps to Impact for Health and Care Researchers

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination in health and social care.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lamont, Tara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Making Research Matter: Steps to Impact for Health and Care Researchers
  • Copyright information
  • Epigraph
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures and boxes
  • List of interviews
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introducing this book
  • Getting your research into the world
  • What is the point of this book?
  • Who is this book for?
  • How is this book structured?
  • Research or evidence?
  • Learning from our evidence centre
  • Format and interviews
  • 2 WHY researchers should spend time on this
  • Summary
  • Making sense of research findings
  • What is the problem? Time lags, information overload, research waste
  • From dissemination to engagement
  • how our thinking has changed
  • Let's talk about impact
  • Your strategy for engaging audiences
  • Step one: ask the right research questions
  • Step two: understand the context in which your research lands
  • Step three: involve the right people throughout the study
  • Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions
  • Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible
  • 3 WHAT counts as evidence
  • Summary
  • Different kinds of evidence
  • Make it relevant
  • Relevant to whom?
  • Right kind of knowledge
  • Assessing quality of evidence
  • 4 WHO you want to reach
  • practitioners
  • Summary
  • Step one: ask the right research questions
  • Step two: understanding context
  • Embedding research in guidelines
  • Research as part of continuing professional development
  • Embracing the wisdom of practice
  • Step three: involve practitioners in your research and outputs
  • Practitioners as researchers
  • Step four: partner with professional organisations and identify champions
  • Knowledge brokers
  • practitioners as research champions
  • Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible
  • Using social media to reach practitioners
  • 5 WHO you want to reach
  • patients, public, service users
  • Summary
  • Step one: ask the right question
  • Step two: understand the context
  • Step three: involve the right people throughout your study
  • Engaging public and service users in research
  • Engaging patients and the public in shaping the research agenda
  • Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions
  • Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible
  • Plain language summaries
  • Easy-read versions
  • Choosing the right images
  • 6 WHO you want to reach
  • policymakers and managers
  • Summary
  • Who makes the decisions?
  • Step one: ask the right questions
  • Step two: understand the context
  • How policymakers use evidence
  • How healthcare managers use evidence
  • Step three: involve the right people
  • Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions
  • Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible
  • Writing a policy brief
  • 7 WHEN you could have most impact
  • Summary
  • It's all about timing
  • What is the next hot topic?