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'Maybe We Can Turn the Tide': An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study to Understand How Knowledge Brokers Mobilise Health Evidence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Norton, Theresa C.; Rodriguez, Daniela C.; Howell, Catherine; Reynolds, Charlene; Willems, Sara – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Little is known about how knowledge brokers (KBs) operate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to translate evidence for health policy and practice. These intermediaries facilitate relationships between evidence producers and users to address public health issues. Aims and objectives: To increase understanding, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Research Utilization, Public Health
Understanding Evidence Use from a Programmatic Perspective: Conceptual Development and Empirical Insights from National Malaria Control Programmes
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Parkhurst, Justin; Ghilardi, Ludovica; Webster, Jayne; Hoyt, Jenna; Hill, Jenny; Lynch, Caroline A. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Conceptualisations of what it means to use evidence in policymaking often appear divided between two extremes. On the one side are works presenting it as the implementation of research findings - particularly evaluations of intervention effect. In contrast stand theoretically informed works exploring the multiple meanings of evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Research and Development
Higher Education Research at the Turn of the New Century: Structures, Issues, and Trends. Garland Studies in Higher Education, Volume 10.
Sadlak, Jan, Ed.; Altbach, Philip G., Ed. – 1997
This collection of 15 essays provides a state of the art report on research activities in higher education since the early 1980s. It includes: (1) "Research on Higher Education: Global Perspectives" (Philip G. Altbach); (2) "Research on Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Corbin Michel Guedegbe); (3) "Research on…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education/L'Association Canadienne pour L'Etude de L'Education des Adultes (17th, Ontario, Canada, May 29-31, 1998).
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Taylor, Maurice, Ed. – 1998
These proceedings on the theme, Adult Education Research: Shaping the Future, contain 52 papers. The papers are: "Virtual Adult Education" (W. Archer and D. Conrad); "Reversal Theory Approach to Adult Learning and Education" (M. Atleo); "Objectiver L'Action" (A. Balleux et al.); "Cultural Constructions of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning