What is it about?
Knowledge mobilisers (people who move knowledge into action) face a number of challenges. These include making sense of diverse definitions, navigating through fragmented literature and identifying helpful models and tools. This paper presents a framework designed to help. Based on a review of 47 knowledge mobilisation models, it consists of four questions: Why is knowledge being mobilised? Whose knowledge is being mobilised? What type of knowledge is being mobilised? How is knowledge being mobilised?
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Why is it important?
This simple framework is designed to help knowldge mobilisers to reflect on, communicate and evaluate their aims and objectives, tasks which are deceptively difficult within the field of knowledge mobilisation. The framework is designed to increase clarity and understanding across the field, which many have agreed is long overdue.
Perspectives
This paper was borne of my own experience as a knowledge mobiliser and the conversations and miscommunication with others working in the 'knowledge' space. I realised that I needed a better way of communicating my aims, objectives and interests, especially when discussing my work with those doing similar things, but from very different perspectives. I had also spent many years hearing about the confusion caused by the diverse knowledge mobilisation literature, and knew that people entering the field for the first time needed a way of distinguishing between the different perspectives, approaches and literatures they were likely to encounter. I've been amazed by the popularity of the paper, which shows that this framework resonates with many in similar positions as myself.
Dr Vicky Ward
University of Leeds
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This page is a summary of: Why, whose, what and how? A framework for knowledge mobilisers, Evidence & Policy, August 2017, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/174426416x14634763278725.
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