The Two-Communities Metaphor and Models of Knowledge Use

Dunn, William N.

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“…Many authors stress the different mentality, time pressures and attitude of policy-makers and researchers which often render communication between them difficult (Dunn 1980;Webber 1983;Frenk 1992;Sauerborn 1999). The way researchers communicate their results to stakeholders is crucial for the use of information.…”

Section: Step 4: Adapting the Communication Process And Products To Smentioning

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Strategies to enhance the use of health systems research for health sector reform

Sauerborn

Nitayarumphong

Gerhardus

1999

Tropical Med Int Health

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SummaryIn spite of frequent claims to the contrary, there is very little evidence that health systems research actually influences policy-making. Based on a case study from Thailand and a literature review, we develop a stakeholder-oriented model of policy-making. We argue that only if stakeholders' needs are taken into consideration during design and implementation of scientific projects and dissemination of the results, research will have a chance to influence the policy process. From this model, we derive a five-step approach to enhance the use of research by various stakeholders. We then propose institutional arrangements and conditions to make the use of research for policy-making more sustainable.keywords Health policy, health care reform, policy-making, decision-making, health system research, evidence-based medicine, research use correspondence Prof. Rainer Sauerborn,

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Section: Step 4: Adapting the Communication Process And Products To Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies to enhance the use of health systems research for health sector reform

Sauerborn

Nitayarumphong

Gerhardus

1999

Tropical Med Int Health

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“…A lot of time therefore needs to be invested in learning about other partners, in order to learn from them. This problem stems from both cognitive and institutional distance, and is often referred to as the two-community gap (Snow 1959;Dunn 1980;Rich 1991;Pregernig 2006): a cultural gap between research collaborators that explains knowledge (non)utilisation. While original formulations referred to the relations between the natural sciences and humanities (Snow 1959), later contributions applied these ideas to the relations between social scientists and policy-makers (Caplan 1979), the fundamental idea being that these actors live in "separate worlds with different and often conflicting values, different reward systems and different languages" (Caplan 1979, p. 459).…”

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Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity

Rekers

Hansen

2014

Science and Public Policy

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Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximityRekers, Josephine V.; Hansen, Teis General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractContributions on interdisciplinary research have so far focused on barriers to such collaborations and strategies for overcoming these. In this paper, we propose that a geographical perspective contributes to understand the formation of successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. The empirical analysis of a centre for clinical cancer research illustrates the importance of considering the role of geographical proximity to collaborators and decision makers, as well as the co-location of excellent research groups within different fields, in overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary research. We suggest that policies aimed at stimulating lasting interdisciplinary research collaborations should take the distance between collaborators into account. AcknowledgementsThe data for this case study was collected with Elena Zukauskaite (CIRCLE, Lund University). This research is part of a larger research project, "Organisational change for innovation and institutional entrepreneurship in health care systems" (ICIS), with partners in Finland (Sotarauta and colleagues) and Norway (Isaksen and Karlsen). The authors thank Ron Boschma and two anonymous referees for valuable comments. AbstractContributions on interdisciplinary research have so far focused on barriers to such collaborations and strategies for overcoming these. In this paper, we propose that a geographical perspective contributes to understand the formation of successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. The empirical analysis of a centre for clinical cancer research illustrates the importance of considering the role of geographical proximity to collaborators and decision-makers, as well as the co-location of excellent research groups within different fields, in overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary research. We suggest that policies aimed at stimulating lasting interdisciplinary research collaborations should take the distance between collaborators into account.

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“…Là où dominait la « méta-phore des deux communautés » (Dunn, 1980), où prévalait le dialogue de sourds des chercheurs et des gestionnaires, représentants des paradigmes scientiste et politique, les constructivistes voient dans la rationalité politique les traits qui caractérisent toute pratique sociale. L'enracinement temporel et la contextualisation de l'action pratique la rendent néces-sairement « sous-déterminée » par rapport à la connaissance préala-ble qui justifiait son origine explicite, et aussi par rapport aux règles qui sont censées l'encadrer.…”

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La gestion amphibie

Zúñiga

2015

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The Two-Communities Metaphor and Models of Knowledge Use

Cited by 165 publications

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Strategies to enhance the use of health systems research for health sector reform

Strategies to enhance the use of health systems research for health sector reform

Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity

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