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Reading: Leading networks in healthcare: Health Foundation Learning Report

Health Foundation Learning report:(full report here) Leading networks in healthcare: Learning about what works – the theory and practice Published 23 January 2013 This is report is based on the programme the Health Foundation set up in October 2011 to

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Reading: What is the nature of knowledge?

 Epistemology can be used “as a tool to cut into the discipline of knowledge management and expose its anatomy” (Spender, 2008, p166 – p.49 of this report) What is the nature of knowledge? (scroll down if you just want my

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Thinking: Parts of your arm where you’d normally stub out your fag

“Apparently if you hold ice to parts of your arm where you’d normally stub out your fag, it sends a similar message to your brain without making you smell like a barbcue.” I came across the above line in ‘The

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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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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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