Policy Points: Co‐creation—collaborative knowledge generation by academics working
alongside other stakeholders—is an increasingly popular approach to aligning research and …

The literature on 'knowledge translation'presents challenges for the reviewer because
different terms have been used to describe the generation, sharing and application of …

Background Closing the gap between research production and research use is a key
challenge for the health research system. Stakeholder engagement is being increasingly …

Choosing a title for a book is always an agony–just as difficult as naming one's children
(mine, incidentally, are called Rhino and Rosebud). On this occasion I have ended up with a …

Background The use of research evidence to underpin public health policy is strongly
promoted. However, its implementation has not been straightforward. The objectives of this …

There is an increasing interest in demonstrating the outcomes from research for the
purposes of learning, accountability, or to demonstrate the value of research investments …

Despite 40 years of research into evidence-based policy (EBP) and a continued drive from
both policymakers and researchers to increase research uptake in policy, barriers to the use …

Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is as an interactive process involving the
interchange of knowledge between research users and researcher producers. Despite many …

Scoping studies have been used across a range of disciplines for a wide variety of
purposes. However, their value is increasingly limited by a lack of definition and clarity of …

Background There is increasing recognition that the development of evidence-informed
health policy is not only a technical problem of knowledge exchange or translation, but also …