Improving engagement in a quality collaborative Cathy Howe & Derek Bell National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Northwest London DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2014.20.11.528 Published Online: November 12, 2014 British Journal of…
Well there’s some interesting things going on at the moment… The Institute for Knowledge Mobilization is having a rethink and a refresh. Did it need one? Maybe, maybe not. First up is the: Leaders Roundtable, 8-9 January 2015, Vancouver From…
This week FellowsConnect brought together 150 fellows, ex-fellows, fellowships organisers and fellowship funders to talk all things Fellow-related. Last session of the day was ‘Open Space-lite’ where anyone could volunteer to run a discussion group. I offered people the opportunity to…
Good news, ‘Improving Engagement in a Quality Collaborative’ by C Howe & D Bell, based on work done in the NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London has been accepted by the British Journal of Healthcare Management, publication date tbc. This is a…
This question was asked at the inaugural UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum in February this year as part of our after-dinner entertainment led by David Phipps (we take our fun seriously). It was asked again at a knowledge transfer event of…
At the recent HSRN Symposium 2014 Nick Black (LSHTM) attempted to annihilate the standardised measures of hospital mortality (HSMR and SHMI). The measures have been criticised for years, and yet are glued into the fabric of our world and, are…
Recently I got ‘the look’ from a friend & colleague @franhusson, patient leader extraordinaire. “I looked at your blog the other day,” she said. “There’s nothing new.” The look came with a pause of significance. Sheepishly, I could only agree. …
Cathy Howe (2014) “A cat, an elf-lord and a spaceman walked into a room… the first UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum had begun” Sources & Resources section of Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 10(2) May 2014 283-288 Abstract This paper reports…
On Monday I’m submitting a grant application to ask for funding to take the good work onwards and upwards over the next year. I’m looking for community (non-University) based enthusiasts who believe we should have the best businesses and services…
by Cathy Howe, NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow and Forum founder And so, time has passed since the first UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum at Nesta in London. Run as a mixed-reality event, 50 delegates joined us in real life (RL), and…
