TY  - JOUR
EP  - 220
AV  - public
Y1  - 2018///
TI  - Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface
ID  - discovery1571205
N2  - 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.
KW  - Framing; policy relevance; research synthesis; systematic review
VL  - 14
SP  - 197
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
IS  - 2
SN  - 1744-2648
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X14987303892442
A1  - Oliver, S
A1  - Bangpan, M
A1  - Dickson, K
JF  - Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice
ER  -