Description
The ever-increasing volume of research in various subject areas has become an invaluable source of information in developing and implementing sound, cost-effective policies and practices. To utilize this information, it is necessary to develop and reliably employ scientifically rigorous and transparency-assuring knowledge synthesis methods to determine whether it is credible, and potentially difference-making.
One leading method is basic knowledge management. While it is at the heart of the “evidence-based healthcare” movement, it is essentially generic and can be applied in education, business and public sector organizations.
In this workshop, participants will explore the elements critical to conceiving, planning and conducting high quality knowledge synthesis, with examples drawn from health and social sciences as well as from work-based scenarios submitted by attendees.
One-day workshop
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the participant will be able to:
- Research evidence: rationale
- Knowledge synthesis—rationale and critical elements
- Meaningful question(s) and existing answer(s)
- Stakeholder/user engagement and protocol development
- Finding potential evidence and assessing its review-relevance
- Assessing the quality of each unique instance of relevant evidence
- Abstracting and organizing key characteristics of relevant evidence
- Synthesizing and critically appraising the complete body of evidence in order to determine/interpret its value as knowledge
- Moving from research evidence to sound policy-informing practice
- Reporting/mobilizing findings and evaluating impact
Duration
6 hours
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