Making research matter : steps to impact for health and care researchers / Tara Lamont

Easy-read versions -- Choosing the right images -- 6 WHO you want to reach -- policymakers and managers -- Summary -- Who makes the decisions? -- Step one: ask the right questions -- Step two: understand the context -- How policymakers use evidence -- How healthcare managers use evidence -- Step three: involve the right people -- Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions -- Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible -- Writing a policy brief -- 7 WHEN you could have most impact -- Summary -- It's all about timing -- What is the next hot topic?

Front Cover -- Making Research Matter: Steps to Impact for Health and Care Researchers -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures and boxes -- List of interviews -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing this book -- Getting your research into the world -- What is the point of this book? -- Who is this book for? -- How is this book structured? -- Research or evidence? -- Learning from our evidence centre -- Format and interviews -- 2 WHY researchers should spend time on this -- Summary -- Making sense of research findings

Relevant to whom? -- Right kind of knowledge -- Assessing quality of evidence -- 4 WHO you want to reach -- practitioners -- Summary -- Step one: ask the right research questions -- Step two: understanding context -- Embedding research in guidelines -- Research as part of continuing professional development -- Embracing the wisdom of practice -- Step three: involve practitioners in your research and outputs -- Practitioners as researchers -- Step four: partner with professional organisations and identify champions -- Knowledge brokers -- practitioners as research champions

Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible -- Using social media to reach practitioners -- 5 WHO you want to reach -- patients, public, service users -- Summary -- Step one: ask the right question -- Step two: understand the context -- Step three: involve the right people throughout your study -- Engaging public and service users in research -- Engaging patients and the public in shaping the research agenda -- Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions -- Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible -- Plain language summaries

What is the problem? Time lags, information overload, research waste -- From dissemination to engagement -- how our thinking has changed -- Let's talk about impact -- Your strategy for engaging audiences -- Step one: ask the right research questions -- Step two: understand the context in which your research lands -- Step three: involve the right people throughout the study -- Step four: partner with organisations, networks and champions -- Step five: present content which is engaging and accessible -- 3 WHAT counts as evidence -- Summary -- Different kinds of evidence -- Make it relevant

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination in health and social care