Knowledge mobilisation in practice: an evaluation of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

Autor: Karen Lee, Seanna Davidson, Anne Grunseit, Abby Haynes, Andrew Wilson, Emma Slaytor, Samantha Rowbotham, Sonia Wutzke, Erika Bohn-Goldbaum
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Capacity Building
Process (engineering)
Health Personnel
Advisory Committees
knowledge mobilisation
Health administration
Translational Research
Biomedical
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Knowledge integration
Political science
Preventive Health Services
1117 Public Health and Health Services
1605 Policy and Administration
Humans
evidence-informed policy
030212 general & internal medicine
Noncommunicable Diseases
Policy Making
Health policy
evaluation
Information Dissemination
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Research
Communication
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Corporate governance
Australia
Health services research
Stakeholder
Partnership research
lcsh:RA1-1270
Public relations
Research Personnel
Group Processes
co-production
Leadership
Interinstitutional Relations
General partnership
Chronic Disease
Health Policy & Services
Health Services Research
0305 other medical science
business
Zdroj: Health Research Policy and Systems
Health Research Policy and Systems, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2020)
ISSN: 1478-4505
Popis: Background Cross-sector collaborative partnerships are a vital strategy in efforts to strengthen research-informed policy and practice and may be particularly effective at addressing the complex problems associated with chronic disease prevention. However, there is still a limited understanding of how such partnerships are implemented in practice and how their implementation contributes to outcomes. This paper explores the operationalisation and outcomes of knowledge mobilisation strategies within the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre — a research collaboration between policy-makers, practitioners and researchers. Methods The Centre’s programme model identifies six knowledge mobilisation strategies that are hypothesised to be essential for achieving its objectives. Using a mixed methods approach combining stakeholder interviews, surveys, participant feedback forms and routine process data over a 5-year period, we describe the structures, resources and activities used to operationalise these strategies and explore if and how they have contributed to proximal outcomes. Results Results showed that Centre-produced research, resources, tools and methods were impacting policy formation and funding. Policy-makers reported using new practical methodologies that were helping them to design, implement, evaluate and obtain funding for scaled-up policies and programmes, and co-creating compelling prevention narratives. Some strategies were better implemented and more impactful than others in supporting these outcomes, with variation in who they worked for. The activities used to effect engagement, capacity-building and partnership formation were mostly generating positive results, but co-production could be enhanced by greater shared decision-making. Considerably more work is needed to successfully operationalise knowledge integration and adaptive learning. Conclusions Describing how collaborative cross-sector research partnerships are operationalised in practice, and with what effects, can provide important insights into practical strategies for establishing and growing such partnerships and for maximising their contributions to policy. Findings suggest that the Centre has many strengths but could benefit from more inclusive and transparent governance and internal processes that facilitate dialogue about roles, expectations and co-production practices.
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