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Extending well beyond peer-reviewed scholarship dissemination products can include community forums, policy briefs, visual and performing arts, storytelling across physical and digital media, popular education, workshops, and other dissemination modalities defined by and accountable to the communities most affected by the research.
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Diversifying Research Dissemination Products
Former IRL Senior Advisor Bonnie Cluxton reflects on the program’s diversification of dissemination products. This shift reflects a commitment to sharing knowledge in formats that are accessible and meaningful to diverse community audiences, not just academic ones.
Op-ED Writing Worksheet
Opinion editors want pieces that tell timely, unique, credible, and powerful stories that speak to their publication’s audience in an appropriate style. Use this guide to ask yourself the right questions.
Disrupting and Reframing How Research Happens
Dawn X. Henderson asks us to reflect on what it means to listen and witness when we’re designing protocols. She reframes research as bearing witness, not just data extraction, and reminds us that ethical knowledge-sharing requires us to return data to communities in usable forms—art, dance, theatre—not just academic publications. This is a reminder that true community-engaged research ensures that communities maintain sovereignty over their own narratives.
We Get to Love, Heal, and Dream
In the heart of “We get to love, heal, and dream,” Dr. Dawn Henderson invites us into a transformative journey of self-discovery and communal healing. Using storytelling, prompted guidance, and templates, this guidebook is a heartfelt tribute to community organizers, cultivators, and practitioners who shape and shift worlds, those told and untold. This guidebook is a call to gather in community, to love fiercely, heal deeply, and dream boldly.
How Can Research Organizations More Effectively Transfer Research Knowledge to Decision Makers?
This article provides an organizing framework for a knowledge-transfer strategy and an overview of an understanding of the current knowledge for each of the five elements of the framework. The framework provides an overall approach to knowledge transfer that can be evaluated as a whole over long periods of time, as well as specific elements that can be evaluated and fine-tuned over shorter periods of time.
Getting the Word Out: New Approaches for Disseminating Public Health Science
The gap between discovery of public health knowledge and application in practice settings and policy development is due in part to ineffective dissemination. This article describes (1) lessons related to dissemination from related disciplines (e.g., communication, agriculture, social marketing, and political science), (2) current practices among researchers, (3) key audience characteristics, (4) available tools for dissemination, and (5) measures of impact.
