Beckett, Kate http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-1502
Farr, Michelle
Kothari, Anita
Wye, Lesley
le May, Andrée
Article History
Received: 20 April 2018
Accepted: 2 October 2018
First Online: 11 December 2018
Authors’ information
: We have provided additional author information (see below) to help the reader understand our viewpoint.KB currently holds an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship and works at the University of the West of England, United Kingdom. Her interests are knowledge mobilisation, mindlines, adult and child injury, post-injury psychological issues, and use of creative approaches to knowledge mobilisation such as forum theatre and film. Her background is in NHS nursing and midwifery.MF is a Senior Research Associate at NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West), Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research interests include co-production and co-design within public services and research, knowledge mobilisation and evaluation methodologies based on realism and complexity. Before her academic career, she worked within the voluntary sector on environmental community projects, within mental health services and with young people.AK is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University, Canada. She has two main areas of research expertise. First, her work focuses on developing a greater understanding of integrated knowledge translation and identifying the factors that influence the successful execution of IKT initiatives. AK’s second area of research expertise is in public health systems research.LW is a NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow working at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. She previously led the Bristol Knowledge Mobilisation Team, which was an embedded researcher/policy-maker multi-disciplinary team working across the two communities (ExternalRef removed). She has worked in academic and policy institutions such as the Department of Health and the think tank the King’s Fund (both United Kingdom). Areas of interest include healthcare policy-making, community services, service evaluations, end-of-life care and quality measures.AlM is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on how knowledge is used in healthcare, how communities of practice influence learning and what skills frontline staff need for quality improvement. She is Co-editor-in chief of the <i>Journal of Research in Nursing</i>.
: All six case studies had appropriate ethical approvals in place; these are available on request from the corresponding author.
: Key investigators involved in the six case studies have confirmed their consent to use of this work in this paper. They have also reviewed and agreed to the case study summaries.
: All authors were involved as researchers in the co-production of Case Studies 1–6. KB, MF, LW and AlM declare that they have no other competing interests. AK is a co-investigator and member of the Executive Committee for the research group that initiated this call for papers (the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network, iKTR network).
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