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Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Marissa J Smith,Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi,Kathryn Skivington,Shona Hilton
Background E-cigarette policy has varied across jurisdictions, contrasting with the previous coordinated approach of international tobacco control communities. Aims and objectives A multi-method case study approach was used to understand the role of evidence and external and internal contextual factors in the development of public health recommendations across four purposively selected jurisdictions
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Co-production and arts-informed inquiry as creative power for knowledge mobilisation Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Stephen MacGregor,Amanda Cooper,Michelle Searle,Tiina Kukkonen
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 explore how conceptualising research and evaluation as creative
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Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Camilla Adelle,Gillian Black,Florian Kroll
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 researchers to employ a creative method, digital storytelling,
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Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Anne Spaa,Nick Spencer,Abigail Durrant,John Vines
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’ practices, and how these may influence conventional policy design
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Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Joe Langley,Nicola Kayes,Ian Gwilt,Erna Snelgrove-Clarke,Sarah Smith,Claire Craig
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Arts-based co-production in participatory research: harnessing creativity in the tension between process and product Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Louise Phillips,Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø,Lisbeth Frølunde
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 knowing. The use of arts-based research in co-production
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What is co-production? Conceptualising and understanding co-production of knowledge and policy across different theoretical perspectives Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Justyna Bandola-Gill,Megan Arthur,Rhodri Ivor Leng
Background:‘Co-production’ is one of the key concepts in evidence-informed policy and practice – in terms of both its theoretical importance and its practical applications − being consistently discussed as the most effective strategy for mobilising evidence in policy and practice contexts. The concept of co-production was developed (almost) independently across multiple disciplines and has been employed
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Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Mandy D. Owens,Sally Ngo,Sue Grinnell,Dana Pearlman,Betty Bekemeier,Sarah Cusworth Walker
Background:Not attending to local political climate negatively impacts the implementation and sustainability of evidence-informed models of health service. Policy codesign aims to align policy, systems, and community from the ‘ground up’, with structured information gathering, synthesis and creative design methods that incorporate relevant scientific evidence.Aims and objectives:This paper provides
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He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Katey Thom,Stella Black,David Burnside,Jessica Hastings
Background:Ninety-one per cent of Aotearoa New Zealand prisoners have been diagnosed with either a mental health or substance use disorder within their lifetime. Challenges exist in how to meet their needs. Diverse pūrākau (stories) of success in whānau ora (wellbeing) and stopping offending are missing from academic and public discourse that should direct law and policy changes.Aims and objectives:We
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Evidence-related framing in the German debate on sugar taxation: a qualitative framing analysis and international comparison Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Katharina S. Moerschel,Peter von Philipsborn,Benjamin Hawkins,Elizabeth McGill
Background:Taxation of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages is considered a key policy for improving population-level nutrition. Implementation is influenced by the way evidence is used and framed in public debates. At this time, no sugar tax has been implemented in Germany.Aims and objectives:This study aims to deepen the understanding of the political dynamics that influence the adoption of sugar
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The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho,Cassandra Yuill,Ellen Thaels,Nazihah Uddin
Background:For women with straightforward pregnancies midwifery units (MUs) are associated with improved maternal outcomes and experiences, similar neonatal outcomes, and lower costs than obstetric units. There is growing interest and promotion of MUs and midwifery-led care among European health policymakers and healthcare systems, and units are being developed and opened in countries for the first
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Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Eleanor MacKillop,James Downe
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 examines how three organisations on different continents develop
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The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: the case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Sam Scott
Background:Following Brexit, and the ending of freedom of movement, labour supply crises have emerged in the UK. The paper focuses on the horticultural sector, where these crises have been particularly pronounced, with fears of crops being left to rot in the fields now commonplace.Aims and objectives:To examine the scale and nature of employer pressure on government with respect to UK low-wage migration
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The creative co-design of low back pain education resources Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Richard Webber,Rebecca Partridge,Cheryl Grindell
Background:Evidence-based guidelines provide clinicians with best practice recommendations but not the means to implement them. Although co-design is increasingly promoted as a way to improve implementation there is frequently insufficient detail provided to understand its contribution. The presented case study addresses this by providing a detailed account of how a specific co-design approach contributed
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Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Cheryl Grindell,Tom Sanders,Remi Bec,Angela Mary Tod,Daniel Wolstenholme
Background:Co-production, co-creation and co-design are increasingly used in healthcare research knowledge mobilisation. These methods have grown in popularity and the broad range of approaches are often used without any formal evaluation. The challenges to using these approaches are well reported yet there is little evidence on how to overcome them or how they work. This study evaluates ‘creative
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Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Alina Potts,Loujine Fattal,Harriet Kolli
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 sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) perpetrated by aid
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Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Christiane Gerblinger
Background:Seeing how governments formulate decisions on our behalf is a crucial component of their ability to claim democratic legitimacy. This includes being seen to draw on the knowledge and evidence produced by their civil service policy advisers. Yet much of the advice provided to governments is being increasingly withdrawn from public accessibility.Aims and objectives:To counter this diminishing
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Using Forum Theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: the Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kate Beckett,Toity Deave,Tony McBride,Andrée le May,John Gabbay,Urszula Kapoulas,Adele Long,Georgie Warburton,Celia Wogan,Lee Cox,Julian Thompson,Frank Spencer,Denise Kendrick
Background:Evidence regarding the impact of psychological problems on recovery from injury has limited influence on practice. Mindlines show effective practice requires diverse knowledge which is generally socially transmitted.Aims and objectives:Develop and test a method blending patient, practitioner, and research evidence and using Forum Theatre to enable key stakeholders to interact with it.Assess
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What works to promote research-policy engagement? Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kathryn Oliver,Anna Hopkins,Annette Boaz,Shannon Guillot-Wright,Paul Cairney
Background:To improve the use of evidence in policy and practice, many organisations and individuals seek to promote research-policy engagement activities, but little is known about what works.Aims and objectives:We sought (a) to identify existing research-policy engagement activities, and (b) evidence on impacts of these activities on research and decision making.Methods:We conducted systematic desk-based
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Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Ashley Schram,Belinda Townsend,Tamara Mackean,Toby Freeman,Matt Fisher,Patrick Harris,Margaret Whitehead,Helen van Eyk,Fran Baum,Sharon Friel
Background:Insufficient progress has been made towards reducing health inequities, due in part to a lack of action on the root causes of health inequities. At present, there is a limited evidence base to guide policy decision making in this space.Key points for discussion:This paper proposes new principles for researchers to conduct health equity policy evaluation. Four key principles are presented:
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Editorial transition: introductions and farewells Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Katherine E. Smith,Mark Pearson,Zachary Neal,Caroline Oliver
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Local politicians in action? The relationship between perceived prerequisites and actions of political committees responsible for social services in supporting the implementation of evidence-based practice Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Annika Bäck,Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz,Anna Bergström,Henna Hasson,Anne Richter
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 political committees to support the implementation of evidence-based
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Defining brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a systematic review Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Jennifer Watling Neal,Zachary P. Neal,Brian Brutzman
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 different BIBS terms (broker, intermediary, and boundary spanner)
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Impact and paybacks of biomedical research findings in Malaysia 2005‐2015 Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Pei Kuan Lai,S. Nalliah,C.L. Teng,N.L.P. Chen
Background: Impact in research encompasses health, economic, and cultural benefits beyond adding to the knowledge base. Funders are under immense pressure to be accountable for the paybacks from funded research.Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to look into the impact of funded biomedical research between the years 2005 and 2015 in Malaysia from the aspects of knowledge production, research
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Understanding knowledge brokerage and its transformative potential: a Bourdieusian perspective Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Sarah Chew,Natalie Armstrong,Graham P. Martin
Background: Knowledge brokering is promoted as a means of enabling exchange between fields and closer collaboration across institutional boundaries. Yet examples of its success in fostering collaboration and reconfiguring boundaries remain few.Aims and objectives: We consider the introduction of a dedicated knowledge-brokering role in a partnership across healthcare research and practice, with a view
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Insights from system leaders about operationalising a knowledge translation department in the Oman Ministry of Health Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Sultana Al Sabahi,Michael G. Wilson,John N. Lavis,Fadi El-Jardali,Kaelan Moat
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 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with policymakers,
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Knowledge Brokerage: The Musical: an analogy for explaining the role of knowledge brokers in a university setting Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Megan Auld,Emmah Doig,Sally Bennett
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 or impact evaluated.Aims and objectives:This paper aims
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National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Niamh Fitzgerald,Paul Cairney
Background:Policymaking environments are multi-centric by necessity and design. Alcohol premises licensing is governed by Scottish legislation, which also allows for local autonomy.Aims and objectives:To describe the obstacles faced by local public health actors in seeking to influence the alcohol premises licensing system in Scotland as an example of local advocacy efforts in multi-centric policymaking
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How are evidence and policy conceptualised, and how do they connect? A qualitative systematic review of public policy literature Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Sonja Blum,Valérie Pattyn
Background:While current public policy scholarship can take advantage of a decades-long accumulated knowledge base on the relationship between evidence and policy, it is hard to keep the overview across different literatures. Over time, the ever more differentiated branches of public policy research have developed their own perspectives, languages, and conceptualisations of ‘evidence’ and ‘policy’
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Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support? Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Isabella Pistone,Allan Lidström,Ingemar Bohlin,Thomas Schneider,Teun Zuiderent-Jerak,Morten Sager
Background:Although increasingly accepted in some corners of social work, critics have claimed that evidence-based practice (EBP) methodologies run contrary to local care practices and result in an EBP straitjacket and epistemic injustice. These are serious concerns, especially in relation to already marginalised clients.Aims and objectives:Against the backdrop of criticism against EBP, this study
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How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Paul Atkinson,Hayley Mableson Sally Sheard,Anne-Marie Martindale,Tom Solomon,Aleksandra Borek,Caitlin Pilbeam
BackgroundResponses to COVID-19 have invested heavily in science. How this science was used is therefore important. Our work extends existing knowledge on the use of science in the pandemic by capturing scientific advisers’ experiences in real time.Aims and objectivesOur aim was to present generalisable messages on key qualifications or difficulties involved in speaking of ‘following the science’.MethodsNinety-three
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Comparing evidence on the effectiveness of reading resources from expert ratings, practitioner judgements, and research repositories Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Fiona M. Hollands,Yilin Pan,Michael J. Kieffer,Venita R. Holmes,Yixin Wang,Maya Escueta,Laura Head,Atsuko Muroga
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 efficacy of reading resources implemented at 23 struggling
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Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Samantha K. Micsinszki,Alexis Buettgen,Gillian Mulvale,Sandra Moll,Michelle Wyndham-West,Emma Bruce,Karlie Rogerson,Louise Murray-Leung,Robert Fleisig,Sean Park,Michelle Phoenix
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 with Vulnerable Populations Hub (‘the Hub’) is a three-year
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Enabling knowledge brokerage intermediaries to be evidence-informed Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-27 David Gough,Chris Maidment,Jonathan Sharples
Target audience:What Works Centres; other intermediary brokerage agencies; their funders and users; and researchers of research use.Background:Knowledge brokerage and knowledge mobilisation (KM) are generic terms used to describe activities to enable the use of research evidence to inform policy, practice and individual decision making. Knowledge brokerage intermediary (KBI) initiatives facilitate
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Empathy is key: addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’ Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Serena Bartys,Rachel Martin,Christine Parker,Amanda Edmondson,Kim Burton
Background:In 2019, Public Health England commissioned the authors of this paper to conduct research examining healthcare professionals’ conversations about work with their patients to inform policy aimed at reducing work loss due to ill health.Aims and objectives:The purpose of this paper is to show how the commission provided a unique opportunity for the authors to collaborate with the funders to
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Does evaluation quality enhance evaluation use? Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Pirmin Bundi,Kathrin Frey,Thomas Widmer
Background: Evaluations are a useful tool to learn more about the effectiveness of public measures. In the era of evidence-based policymaking, recent research suggests that quality is an important determinant of the utilisation of evaluations. Despite this claim, hardly any empirical study has investigated whether the quality of an evaluation ‐ measured by a meta-evaluation ‐ influences its perceived
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Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Vicky Ward,Tricia Tooman,Benet Reid,Huw Davies,Martin Marshall
Background: ‘Embedded research’ (co-locating researchers within non-academic organisations) is advocated as a way of developing more effective services through better creation and application of knowledge.Aims and objectives: The existing literature on embedded initiatives has largely been descriptive. There has been less in the way of analysis, for example, disaggregating the components of such schemes
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Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Saliha Ziam,Pierre Gignac,Élodie Courant,Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux
Background: Decisions related to the development and implementation of public health programmes or policies can benefit from more effective use of the best available knowledge. However, decision makers do not always feel sufficiently equipped or may lack the capacity to use evidence. This can lead them to overlook or set aside research results that could be relevant to their practice area.Aims and
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Examining peer learning as a strategy for advancing uptake of evidence-based practices: a scoping review Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 S. Kathleen Worton,Ellis Furman
Background: Continued evolution of knowledge-to-action (KTA) theories requires increased attention to dynamics of power and ways to integrate multiple forms of knowledge. Peer learning ‐ a process through which knowledge users interact with other learners ‐ is a valuable but largely unexamined strategy for integrating practice-based knowledge in the KTA process.Aims and objectives: This study undertakes
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A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Vicky Ward,Tricia Tooman,Benet Reid,Huw Davies,Breid O’ Brien,Liz Mear,Martin Marshall
Background: Embedded research involves co-locating researchers within non-academic organisations to better link research and practice. Embedded research initiatives are often complex and emergent with a range of underlying intents, structures and processes. This can create tensions within initiatives and contributes to ongoing uncertainty about the most suitable designs and the effectiveness of different
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Epistemological deliberation: the challenges of producing evidence-based guidelines on lifestyle habits Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Helena Lagerlöf,Teun Zuiderent-Jerak,Morten Sager
Background: Promotion of healthy behaviour is increasingly highlighted worldwide as a way to improve public health, prevent disease incidence, and decrease long-term costs for healthcare. In Sweden the National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) used the well-established format of national guidelines to facilitate a more widespread use of approaches for promotion of healthy lifestyle habits in healthcare
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Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Joel R. Malin,Dustin Hornbeck
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 advanced with an eye toward influencing key decisions and/or
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From dissemination to engagement: learning over time from a national research intermediary centre (Four Fs) Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Tara Lamont,Elaine Maxwell
Background:There has been little applied learning from organisations engaged in making evidence useful for decision makers. More focus has been given either to the work of individuals as knowledge brokers or to theoretical frameworks on embedding evidence. More intelligence is needed on the practice of knowledge intermediation.Aims and objectives:This paper describes the evolution of approaches by
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Eliciting public values on health inequalities: missing evidence for policy windows? Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Neil McHugh
Background:There is a widening health divide in the UK despite health inequalities being a longstanding subject of policy and research. New types of evidence are needed.Key points for discussion:Knowledge of public values for non-health policies and their associated (non-)health outcomes is currently missing from decision-making processes. Eliciting public values using stated preference techniques
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Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Takunda J. Chirau,Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa,Matodzi M. Amisi
Background: African countries are developing their monitoring and evaluation policies to systematise, structure and institutionalise evaluations and use of evaluative evidence across the government sector. The pace at which evaluations are institutionalised and systematised across African governments is progressing relatively slowly.Aims and objectives: This article offers a comparative analysis of
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Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Jacqui Cameron,Cathy Humphreys,Anita Kothari,Kelsey Hegarty
Background: There is limited research on how knowledge translation of a domestic violence (DV) research network is shared. This lack of research is problematic because of the complexity of establishing a research network, encompassing diverse disciplines, methods, and focus of study potentially impacting how knowledge translation functions.Aims and objectives: To address the limited research, we completed
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Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’ Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Liz Richardson,Peter John
Background: Behavioural public policies, known as nudges, suffer from lack of citizen consent and involvement, which has led to an argument for more reflective nudges, known as ‘nudge plus’.Aims and objectives: How can more citizen reflection be introduced in a way that is not itself top-down and paternalist in spite of good intentions? How might these ‘nudge pluses’ develop on the ground?Methods:
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When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Gary Lowery,Matthew Flinders,Barry J. Gibson
Background: Tooth extractions are the most common cause of hospital admissions for children in England. Water fluoridation has the potential to reduce this number by 60%, is backed by the scientific and public health communities, and yet is currently consumed by only 10% of the population.Aims and objectives: This ‘evidence-policy gap’ is explored through Kingdon’s ‘multi-streams approach’ which provides
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Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Kirsty Jones,Sara Bice
Background:The gap between research and practical implementation remains a major challenge for policymakers. Research co-creation, involving researchers co-designing and co-producing research with industry, government and civil society, can support improved end user uptake and better research implementation.Aims and objectives:This Practice Paper introduces a process of research co-creation based in
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Using knowledge brokering to produce community-generated evidence Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Janet Harris,Jane Springett,Debbie Mathews,Guy Weston,Alexis Foster
Background:Devolution and integration of health and social care have placed increasing pressure on local statutory services, with a corresponding shift of health and social care to community organisations. The voluntary and charitable sector (VCS) is expected to make the case for increased funding by providing evidence of value and impact.Aims and objectives:This paper explores the challenges of compiling
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Public-academic partnerships to foster use of research evidence in improving youth outcomes: findings from document analysis Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Amy P. Page,Oluwatoyin B. Olubiyi,Yin-Ling Irene Wong,Christina D. Kang-Yi
Background:Although public-academic partnerships (PAPs) to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations have proliferated in public care for youth, existing literature lacks information about whether PAPs lead to public care agency leaders’ use of research evidence and promote youth mental health and well-being.Aims and objectives:The document analysis was conducted to understand PAP
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Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania: the case of sheltered workshops Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Claudia Petrescu,Mihaela Lambru
Background: The importance of using evidence to inform the policymaking process has been well established in the literature and practice. In Western countries evidence-based policy (EBP) is already accepted and implemented in many policy areas, including disability policy. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the interest in EBP (evidence-based policy) is new and limited, hampered in many aspects by
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The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice: embracing complexity Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Carol Rivas,Ikuko Tomomatsu,David Gough
Background: This special issue examines the relationship between disability, evidence, and policy.Key points: Several themes cut across the included papers. Despite the development of models of disability that recognise its socially constructed nature, dis/ableism impedes the involvement of people with disability in evidence production and use. The resultant incomplete representations of disability
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How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Mark Priestley,Stefanos Grammenos
Background: The measurement of equality is often difficult for groups who are weakly defined or poorly represented in official datasets. Social statistics are an essential component in rights recognition and advocacy because they make protected groups of persons visible and reveal the extent of their inequalities in comparison with population norms.Aims and objectives: This paper examines how disabled
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Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Ariella Meltzer,Helen Dickinson,Eleanor Malbon,Gemma Carey
Background: Many countries use market forces to drive reform across disability supports and services. Over the last few decades, many countries have individualised budgets and devolved these to people with disability, so that they can purchase their own choice of supports from an available market of services.Key points for discussion: Such individualised, market-based schemes aim to extend choice and
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Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Tom Porter,Charlotte Pearson,Nick Watson
Background: Anti-welfare narratives depict welfare systems as overly-permissive, open to fraud, and fundamentally unfair. Countering these supposed ills have been political appeals to evidence and reforms made to disability benefit assessments under the banner of objectivity. But objectivity is a complex construct, which entails philosophical and political choices that tend to oppress, exclude and
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Taking a policy process approach to illuminate the political nature of disability policymaking Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Leanne Giordono
Background: In an era of increased polarisation, identity politics and growing reliance on using evidence to make disability policy decisions ‐ evidence-based policymaking ‐ how much do we know about the process by which disability policy decisions are made and the use of evidence therein?Aims and objectives: The objective of this Practice Paper is to introduce key policy process frameworks, highlight
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Disability and family violence prevention: a case study on participation in evidence making Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Sally Robinson,kylie valentine,Jan Idle
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice
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Drawing hidden figures of disability: youth and adults with disabilities in Canada Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Michael J. Prince
Background: While governments draw on survey data to inform policy choices, the design, application, and interpretation of surveys can generate certain images of disability and ignore many others.Aims and objectives: This article draws attention to social circumstances of people with disabilities often unacknowledged in research evidence: hidden figures of disability.Methods: Selected results from
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Exploring a non-universal understanding of waged work and its consequences: sketching out employment activation for people with an intellectual disability Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (IF 2.595) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Kim Dearing
Background: Supported Employment has been advocated for by successive governments and policymakers alike as the best approach to employment inclusion for people with an intellectual disability who are in receipt of social care. Yet only 5.2% of this demographic are in any form of work and these numbers have been persistently stagnant for many years.Aims: This study aimed to explore the employment landscape