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.
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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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?