The Researcher–Practitioner Partnership Study (RPPS): Experiences From Criminal Justice System Collaborations Studying Violence Against Women

Sullivan, Tami P.; Price, Carolina; McPartland, Tara; Hunter, Bronwyn A.; Fisher, Bonnie S.

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“…Available frameworks suggest structures for partnerships, [13][14][15][16] and literature promotes broad principles such as addressing issues of power and equity [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and developing relationships of trust. [20][21][22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] However, it can be difficult for teams, particularly those new to this type of work, to operationalize abstract structures and principles in the specific context of their research project.In this article, we draw from our collective years of experience as patients, caregivers, clinicians, other stakeholders and academic researchers in partnered projects to offer 12 practical lessons we have learned about how to better conduct partnered research. These lessons are intended for all people working in such projects, including patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and others.…”

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Twelve Lessons Learned for Effective Research Partnerships Between Patients, Caregivers, Clinicians, Academic Researchers, and Other Stakeholders

Witteman

Dansokho

Colquhoun³

et al. 2018

J GEN INTERN MED

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Research increasingly means that patients, caregivers, health professionals, other stakeholders, and academic investigators work in partnership. This requires effective collaboration rooted in mutual respect, involvement of all participants, and good communication.Having conducted such partnered research over multiple projects, and having recently completed a project together funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, we collaboratively developed a list of 12 lessons we have learned about how to ensure effective research partnerships. To foster a culture of mutual respect, hold early in-person meetings, with introductions focused on motivation, offer appropriate orientation for everyone, and maintain awareness of individual and project goals. To actively involve all team members, it is important to ensure sufficient funding for everyone's participation, to ask for and recognize diverse contributions, and to seek the input of quiet members. To facilitate good communication, teams should carefully consider labels, avoid jargon and acronyms, judiciously use homogeneous and heterogeneous subgroups, and keep progress visible. In offering pragmatic, actionable lessons we have learned through our separate and shared experiences, we hope to help foster more patient-centered research via productive and enjoyable research collaborations. INTRODUCTIONHealth research teams increasingly include patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders whose primary careers are not health research. This may occur because team leaders are convinced of the merits of such an approach, because funders or publishers require it, or both. 1-4 Such partnerships are intended to increase the relevance of research to those who might benefit from it and thus to reduce research waste. 5 This is an excellent and laudable aim; however, there is relatively little practical guidance available about how to effectively conduct such partnered research.Previous reviews and evaluations demonstrate four points about conducting partnered research. First, research teams with patients, caregivers, and other stakeholder team members tend to involve these stakeholders more at earlier stages in the project than at later stages. 6,7 Second, people coming into projects without a research background may require orientation in order to participate fully. 8 Third, benefits of partnership may be difficult to formally assess. 9 Fourth, time requirements are a frequent concern for everyone. 7,10 These reviews offer valuable evidence syntheses relevant to partnership, as do recommendations from long-standing traditions of methods 558JGIM such as community-based participatory research 11 and participatory action research. 12 However, as partnered research expands across research types and funding opportunities, more people are engaging in team structures that are new to them. Available frameworks suggest structures for partnerships, [13][14][15][16] and literature promotes broad principles such as addressing issues of power and equity [17][18][19...

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Twelve Lessons Learned for Effective Research Partnerships Between Patients, Caregivers, Clinicians, Academic Researchers, and Other Stakeholders

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Colquhoun³

et al. 2018

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“…Researcher-practitioner partnerships involve researchers partnering with community agencies to provide data, inform policy, and deliver services (Sullivan et al, 2017). Such partnerships can take many different forms and are designed to target many different problems.…”

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Coming Together in the Fight Against Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons Learned From a Researcher–Practitioner Collaboration Evaluating Cincinnati’s Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT)

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Rubenstein

Petkus

et al. 2021

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an insidious public health concern that affects people of all demographic backgrounds. In the city of Cincinnati, Ohio there has been a significant increase in IPV-related homicides over the past 5 years. Women Helping Women (WHW), a nonprofit organization that works to prevent gender-based violence, collaborated with Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) to create the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT). Researchers from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice were invited to work with WHW to evaluate the program. This article discusses the history of the DVERT program and collaboration, obstacles that ensued, lessons learned, and successes of the relationship between the researchers, WHW, and CPD. Implications for other researchers and practitioners looking to form partnerships are discussed.

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“…The researchers 4 had extensive prior histories with one or other of the partner services and their operating environments. We believe this trust is essential for effective researcher-service collaborations (Sullivan et al, 2017). The overall research programme explored 'lessons learned' in working with and for Aboriginal women facing DFV over the past 30 years.…”

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“…The partner projects were led and implemented by them using experienced staff nominated by them to be worker-researchers with the assistance of local and universitybased researchers. These participant groupings comprised an iteration of co-research in which contributions were joint and several (Sullivan et al, 2017). Rather than the groupings being solely 'outsiders' or 'insiders' (Hartley and Benington, 2000: 463), they were both at different occasions and in different activities.…”

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Research collaborations between women’s specialist services, Aboriginal women and researchers

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2018

Qualitative Social Work

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When experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women seek help for diverse needs. In response, women's specialist DFV services provide a range of programs. Given this diversity and program range, evaluating impact and outcome is challenging. A deeper challenge rests on who decides what to measure and how. This article describes a multi-site research collaboration between women's specialist services and researchers. Part of the project aimed to identify the perspectives and priorities of Aboriginal women users of three specialist services: one each in an urban, regional and remote location. In a series of iterative steps, Aboriginal women, service workers and researchers explored what was valued in interactions with crisis programs. Each collaboration then moved to identify ways to measures the items, and to determine when and how other service users might be asked to respond. Aboriginal women participated primarily as service users but in overlapping capacities as victims of DFV, as community members, as local researchers and service workers. The underlying principle that guided the research was to respect and acknowledge Aboriginal women as knowledge-holders, producers and translators. However, clear limits to ideas of 'co-research' are identified.

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The Researcher–Practitioner Partnership Study (RPPS): Experiences From Criminal Justice System Collaborations Studying Violence Against Women

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Twelve Lessons Learned for Effective Research Partnerships Between Patients, Caregivers, Clinicians, Academic Researchers, and Other Stakeholders

Twelve Lessons Learned for Effective Research Partnerships Between Patients, Caregivers, Clinicians, Academic Researchers, and Other Stakeholders

Coming Together in the Fight Against Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons Learned From a Researcher–Practitioner Collaboration Evaluating Cincinnati’s Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT)

Research collaborations between women’s specialist services, Aboriginal women and researchers

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