%0 Journal Article
%@ 1744-2648
%A Oliver, S
%A Bangpan, M
%A Dickson, K
%D 2018
%F discovery:1571205
%J Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice
%K Framing; policy relevance; research synthesis; systematic review
%N 2
%P 197-220
%T Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571205/
%V 14
%X This study employed insider research and reflective practice to investigate exchanges across the research-policy interface to understand the practice of producing policy-relevant systematic reviews. Interviewees came from 11 systematic reviews or review programmes which spanned four models of policy-relevant reviews and between them provided evidence for understanding policy problems, comparing policy options, or implementing policy decisions. No review methodology was found to be uniquely appropriate for policy-relevant systematic reviews. It was the mutual engagement across the research-policy interface that made the reviews policy-relevant. This involved thinking about the issues and seeing them from multiple viewpoints to identify and shape questions; this prompted implicit or explicit value-driven debates. The intellectual work to shape a policy-relevant systematic review is an iterative, collective endeavour that requires partners from either side of the policy-research interface to engage with the unfamiliar, listen, challenge and co-construct questions and answers.
%Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.