The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West new Knowledge Mobilisation programme focuses on building capacity and capability and mobilising evidence across these priority areas:
- Health of children and young people
- Mental health
- Population health, particularly groups with multiple disadvantages
- Inequalities in health and access to services experienced by underserved groups
- The timely integration of research evidence into service planning and health and care practice
- The equitable deployment of health and care innovations.
Approaches
The main approaches the knowledge mobilisation team takes are :
- enabling service level staff to lead and champion evidence-based service changes through a system-based Impact Accelerator Unit
- enabling community leadership in research and knowledge mobilisation through the health research ambassadors working in ethnically diverse and underserved areas
- supporting uptake and spread of health and care innovations through the Health Innovation West of England’s ‘innovation and improvement academy’ model which shares knowledge, enhances skills, and supports networking and connections across the three integrated care systems.
Further information can can found on the ARC West webpage.
ARC West Knowledge Mobilisation Team
Implementation Lead
Oliver Watson
oliver.watson@bristol.ac.uk
Contact for further information
Helen Baxter
helen.baxter@bristol.ac.uk
