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Producing policy relevant systematic reviews: navigating the policy-research interface

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. Green open access

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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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