What you need to know and do, to ensure your research makes an impact: Using the Science of Knowledge Translation and Implementation to Impact Practice and Policy

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
Iontas Seminar Room (second floor)

Dr. Melanie Barwick is a Senior Scientist in the Child Evaluative Sciences Program of the SickKids’ Research Institute, Toronto and an internationally recognised expert in implementation science and knowledge translation. Her programme of health services research spans health, mental health, education, and global health sectors and aims to improve the implementation of evidence into practice and to broaden the reach of evidence to support decision making, policy, knowledge and awareness.
 
Research strives for discovery, understanding and often times, for impact on our health and well-being through changes in behaviour, practice/service delivery, and policy. We seek to ‘know and understand’, yet in so doing, we are rarely effective in sharing our knowledge with those outside of academia. Consequently, we sometimes fall short in realising the potential benefits of our research. In this talk, Dr. Melanie Barwick will review the evidence for how knowledge translation (KT) and implementation science can help us achieve better reach and ultimately help to meet the impact goals for our individual and organisational research agendas.
 

Main Messages:

Achieving research impact involves sharing evidence (knowledge translation), and in some cases (but not all), implementing that evidence in practice (implementation science) at the individual project level; this provides the foundation for organisational impact.
Knowledge translation ensures people can access and understand the evidence; KT planning can make the difference in research that benefits or goes unread.
Implementation science informs how to adopt and scale up evidence.
Research that aims to move new interventions into practice necessarily involves implementation science methods and designs. 

Learning Objectives:

To understand:
the fundamental elements of KT and implementation
the key steps for implementation of evidence in practice and policy
new methods for implementation in research. 
 
With the kind support of MUSSI, the Department of Psychology and The Centre for Mental Health and Community Research (CMHCR).
 

* This seminar is free of charge but places are limited * Please Register on Eventbrite here
Lunch will be provided