eprintid: 1571205
rev_number: 32
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2017-08-30 14:06:18
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type: article
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creators_name: Oliver, S
creators_name: Bangpan, M
creators_name: Dickson, K
title: Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
keywords: Framing; policy relevance; research synthesis; systematic review
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abstract: 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.
date: 2018
date_type: published
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X14987303892442
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1415032
doi: 10.1332/174426417X14987303892442
lyricists_name: Bangpan, Mukdarut
lyricists_name: Dickson, Kelly
lyricists_name: Oliver, Sandra
lyricists_id: MBANG28
lyricists_id: KEDIC22
lyricists_id: SOLIV93
actors_name: Oliver, Sandra
actors_id: SOLIV93
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice
volume: 14
number: 2
pagerange: 197-220
issn: 1744-2648
citation:        Oliver, S;    Bangpan, M;    Dickson, K;      (2018)    Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface.                   Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice , 14  (2)   pp. 197-220.    10.1332/174426417X14987303892442 <https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X14987303892442>.       Green open access   
 
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