%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.
%O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%P 197-220
%V 14
%L discovery1571205
%D 2018
%N 2
%J Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice
%T Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface
%K Framing; policy relevance; research synthesis; systematic review
%A S Oliver
%A M Bangpan
%A K Dickson