Making sense of evidence: using research training to promote organisational change

Wilkinson, Kath; Boyd, Karen; Pearson, Mark; Farrimond, Hannah; Lang, Iain; Fleischer, Dirk; Poole, Adam; Ralph, Neil; Rappert, Brian

doi:10.1080/15614263.2017.1405266

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“…For health and social care staff, activities will aim to develop and sustain capacity for care home managers, staff, residents and their family members to engage with research, understand its meaning and its importance, and be able to apply research evidence to their own practice settings. This understanding of research and its relevance to practice will lead to an increased confidence in applying research in practice; indeed, previous activities delivered by members of this research team to a diverse range of groups including local authorities, patients, members of the public, and police officers and staff have successfully achieved this [35]. For academics, activities will aim to increase their familiarity with practical, political, ethical and emotional factors that underpin the functioning of care homes and engagement with care homes.…”

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A realist evaluation of a collaborative model to support research co-production in long-term care settings in England: the ExCHANGE protocol

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Background Collaborative working between academic institutions and those who provide health and social care has been identified as integral in order to produce acceptable, relevant, and timely research, and for outputs to be useful and practical to implement. The ExCHANGE Collaboration aims to bring together researchers and people working, living in and visiting care homes to build capacity, share and mobilise knowledge, and identify key areas for future research. This paper describes an embedded, formative, realist and theory-driven evaluation which aims to gather information about how successful the ExCHANGE Collaboration is perceived to be in achieving its aims. An existing realist programme theory from the literature – Closer Collaboration – will be supplemented by two substantive theories: Co-production and Knowledge Brokering. This will result in an initial programme theory which will be tested by this formative evaluation to refine understanding of how the ExCHANGE Collaboration works. Methods The evaluation will employ mixed qualitative methods, including: analysis of documents such as feedback forms, Knowledge Broker journal/diary, event attendance records, risk and issues logs and other relevant paperwork gathered as part of project delivery; observations of events/activities; and interviews with care home providers and staff, care home residents, residents’ family members, and researchers who are involved in the project (both project design/delivery, and also attendance or involvement in project activities/events). Framework Analysis will be used to interpret the data collected; analysis will be strategic, by focusing on particular key areas of importance in the developing theory of how the ExCHANGE Collaboration might achieve change. Results The results of this study are expected to be published in 2022. Discussion This evaluation will investigate how successful the ExCHANGE Collaboration is perceived to be in achieving its aims, in what way, in which contexts, and how this may differ for those involved. It will do this by testing an initial programme theory about how the collaboration works, for whom, under which circumstances, and in what way. Findings will be shared through written publication, an end of project learning event for those involved/interested in the project, and a lay summary to be made publically available.

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Section: The Exchange Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 98%