Clough, G;
Adams, A;
(2020)
Evidence Cafés: Overcoming conflicting
motivations and timings.
Research for All
, 4
(2)
pp. 220-241.
10.14324/RFA.04.2.07.
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Abstract
Evidence-based practice is increasingly important in creating effective public services through the balance of high-quality research and valid practice. Yet even when academics and practitioners work together to use evidence in practice, barriers emerge. This paper describes research into equitable knowledge exchange between academia and practice, drawing on data from 15 Evidence Cafés run across the UK with police forces, involving 378 participants, represented here with three exemplar Evidence Café case studies. Our findings reveal the differences between one-way knowledge transfer and two-way, equitable knowledge exchange, and how champions and effectively designed and implemented discussion objects can overcome challenges of conflicting motivations and timing. We conclude that there is a need to reframe knowledge exchange through the lens of ‘evidence’ and the process of equitable co-creation of new meanings.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Evidence Cafés: Overcoming conflicting motivations and timings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.04.2.07 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.04.2.07 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 Clough and Adams. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Evidence Cafés, knowledge exchange, discussion objects |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125271 |
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