While health promotion practitioners are engaging increasingly in research, there has been little examination of the practical dilemmas they may face in negotiating and collaborating with academics and community members ...

This paper focuses on scoping studies, an approach to reviewing the literature which to date has received little attention in the research methods literature. We distinguish between different types of scoping studies and ...

How do we understand innovation in the public sector? A look at the public and private sector understanding of innovation helps us begin to see how important new ideas are born, nurtured, tested and disseminated.

There are incentives on both sides of the practitioner–academic divide for co-production of research. This article identifies and evaluates five strategies for achieving more engaged and engaging scholarship. At one end ...

Background The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research ...

This paper explores the dialogue about innovation in public services currently found within public policy and creates an interaction between research and practice about its strengths and limitations. It argues that this ...

Background: Our research team has undertaken implementation of evidence in the form of practice guideline recommendations for populations in hospital, community, and long‐term care settings with diverse provider and patient ...

A number of recent policies promote public participation in health service design. Yet, a growing literature has articulated a gap between policy aims and actual practice resulting in public participation becoming tokenistic. ...

Denne rapporten presenterer forskningsprosjektet Stolt beboer, gjennomført av NTNU Samfunnsforskning og SINTEF Byggforsk i samarbeid med Kristiansund kommune.Husbanken finansierte prosjektet. Stolt beboer har sett på ...

Background A compelling ethical rationale supports patient engagement in healthcare research. It is also assumed that patient engagement will lead to research findings that are more pertinent to patients’ concerns and ...