Yearly Archives: 2013

Talking: Frontline staff making changes: learning from CLAHRC Northwest London Event

Yesterday over 120 healthcare staff, patients, academics and industry partners came together to share up to date news about improving services on the front-line as part of the winter CLAHRC for Northwest London Collaborative Learning and Delivery Event. Keynote: Professor Tony Bell,

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Talking: Abe Wandersman: Getting to Outcomes

The Getting to Outcomes Results-Based approach to Accountability – is it like the CLAHRC NWL approach? Abraham Wanderson, Professor of Psychology at the University South Carolina-Columbia, talked about his GTO approach to implementing change that’s been used in the US

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Reading: History of the policy context for knowledge mobilisation

Do you know the history of the policy related to knowledge mobilisation and research utilisation? It’s surprisingly complex, with much more happening in recent years. This covers 1948-2009 only. • 1948-1991: curiosity-driven research, where “Special Health Authorities were tertiary clinical

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Writing: QI in healthcare: is it mustard or ketchup?

Got encouraging comments from a peer reviewer on my slightly quirky essay. Hopefully with minor revisions it’ll be out there soon… In the meantime, I’ll leave you to ponder what it might be about 🙂

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Reading: Knowledge Mobilisation: management vs researchers?

Crilly et al published their findings of a research utilisation and knowledge mobilisation literature review in 2010. I’ll be publishing my summary and views of it in sections as it’s 306 pages long! Possibly contentiously it opens with comparative vignettes:

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Why this website?

A personal professional website seems to me to be highly narcissistic on one level, and on another an absolute necessity. However, I’ve decided that my NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship provides me with a reasonably strong excuse to attempt to overcome

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