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…
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…
By Gary Myers, Director of Services, KMbeing, Toronto, Canada Why attend the UK Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) Forum 2014? It’s a genuinely important question to ask as there are so many other events or conferences that you may be considering attending this…
By Peter Levesque, CEO Institute for Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Mobilization Works It has been my pleasure and privilege to work on issues of knowledge mobilization for more than 15 years. It was not called “knowledge mobilization” at first. It…
Why the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2014 (3-4 Feb) is a gift for pracademics by Roxanne Persaud, pracademic and doctoral researcher at University of Southampton Research is nothing without an exchange of information and ideas. The joy of research is about…
