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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1332/174426417X14987303892442 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X14987303892442 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Framing; policy relevance; research synthesis; systematic review |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571205 |
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