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Pathways to research impact in primary healthcare: What do Australian primary healthcare researchers believe works best to facilitate the use of their research findings?
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Primary healthcare researchers are under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable and lasting improvement in clinical practice and healthcare policy as a result of their work. It is therefore important to understand the effectiveness of the research dissemination strategies used. The aim of this paper is to describe the pathways for research impact that have been achieved across several government-funded primary healthcare projects, and the effectiveness of these methods as perceived by their Chief Investigators.
Methods
The project used an online survey to collect information about government-funded primary healthcare research projects. Chief Investigators were asked how they disseminated their findings and how this achieved impact in policy and practice. They were also asked to express their beliefs regarding the most effective means of achieving research impact and describe how this occurred.
Results
Chief Investigators of 17 projects indicated that a number of dissemination strategies were used but that professional networks were the most effective means of promoting uptake of their research findings. Utilisation of research findings for clinical practice was most likely to occur in organisations or among individual practitioners who were most closely associated with the research team, or when research findings were included in educational programmes involving clinical practice. Uptake of both policy- and practice-related research was deemed most successful if intermediary organisations such as formal professional networks were engaged in the research. Successful primary healthcare researchers had developed critical relationships with intermediary organisations within primary healthcare before the initiation of the research and had also involved them in the design. The scale of research impact was influenced by the current policy environment, the type and significance of the results, and the endorsement (or lack thereof) of professional bodies.
Conclusions
Chief Investigators believed that networks were the most effective means of research dissemination. Researchers who were embedded in professional, clinical or policy-focussed intermediary organisations, or had developed partnerships with clinical services, which had a vested interest in the research findings, were more able to describe a direct impact of their research. This suggests that development of these relationships and engagement of these stakeholders by primary healthcare researchers is a vital step for optimal research utilisation in the primary healthcare setting
Review Essay: Reconciliation, a Postcolonial Settlement and the Constitutional Recognition Debates: a review essay.
No full textReview Essay: Reconciliation, a Postcolonial Settlement and the Constitutional Recognition Debates: a review essay. Works discussed in this essay: It’s Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform edited by Megan Davis and Marcia Langton. Melbourne University Press 2016 and Keith Windschuttle, The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda behind Aborig inal Recognition. Quadrant Books, 2016
Review of The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Deborah L. Madsen.
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Review of Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery by Carol LeFevre
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Review of Twenty-two New Asian Short Stories ed. Mohammad A. Quayum.
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Dancing in the Mirror: Performing Postcoloniality in Paulina Chizine’s Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia
Get PDFThrough female characters who decolonise their bodies and reveal their desires, Paulina Chizine’s Niketche:Uma História de Poligamia, reinserts women’s voices in the socio-economic and political affairs of the postcolonial nation. By subverting cultural aspects that constrain women’s freedom, the narrative becomes a symbolic space to the reconstruction of women’s subjectivity. In this sense, Chiziane’s novel establishes connection between the fictional narrative and the extra-narrative world