Knowledge Utilization and Policy Implementation (KUPI): A Five Year Research Program
Start/End Dates: July 2002 - 2007
Investigators: Carole A. Estabrooks (PI), Rejean Landry, Harley Dickinson, Karen Golden-Biddle
Collaborators: Chuck Humphrey (UA Data Library), Namatie Traore (StatsCan)
Location: Universities of Alberta, Saskatchewan, & Laval
Funder: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Grant Amount: $1.97 million
The purpose of this research program was to develop theoretical foundations for knowledge utilization (KU) to enable relevant knowledge use by practitioners and decision-makers. It drew on four distinct disciplinary perspectives and applies multi-methods and multi-level analysis to existing datasets.
The research questions addressed were:
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How do the determinants of KU vary across levels of decision-making?
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How is KU accomplished in organizations?
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How does KU shape policy implementation?
The program was designed in three sequential phases:
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data preparation
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research projects
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dissemination strategies
The products of this research program are:
Articles:
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Nursing Research Supplement (July/August 2007)
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Graham, P. J., & Dickinson, H. D. (2007). Knowledge-system theory in society: Charting the growth of knowledge-system models over a decade, 1994-2003. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(14), 2372-2381