Building a bridge over the family feud of research and practice

David Phipps, PhD, MBA

Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUixmZwAO_Q

The Feud

research practice

FACULTY STAFF

VS

The Family

The Rules

Question #1: Theory vs. practiceWe have purposely focused on the principle and processes that should underpin a support system for enhancing the KTA process. While infrastructure is central to the delivery of such support it is important to specify principles rather than physical activities because we want to highlight the building blocks for an effective support system relevant across a range of contexts

• Adrian Cherney and Brian Head (2011) Supporting the knowledge-to-action process: a systems-thinking approach. Evidence and Policy. 7(4): 471-488.

By 2010 there had been 32 papers published on the PARiHS framework, but according to Stetler et al (2011), “No published studies were identified that used the framework comprehensively and prospectively to develop an implementation project. The ability to fully evaluate its usefulness thus has been limited.”

• Cheryl B Stetler, Laura J Damschroder, Christian D Helfrich and Hildi J Hagedorn (2011) A guide for applying a revised version of the PARIHS framework for implementation. Implementation Science. 6(99).

Question #2: Incentives & Rewards

Traditional tenure & promotion fails to equitably recognize engaged scholarship creating a disincentive for (especially untenured) scholars; however, we all know faculty who have achieved tenure working closely with non-academic research partners.

T&P: "critical barrier to engaged scholarship" or "I only wish I had a chance to get tenure“

www.engagedscholarship.ca

Question #3: Terminology

Question #4: Impact

What is impact and how do

you measure it?

Question #5: If I could have one thing…

Final Thoughts

David Phippsdphipps@yorku.cahttp://www.researchimpact.ca