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New publication: Helping social research make a difference

New publication: Evidence-informed practice: Using research to improve services for children and young people

New publication: Evidence and policy in six European countries: Diverse approaches and common challenges

New publication: Evidence for accountability: using evidence in the audit, inspection and scrutiny of government

UKES conference: keynote presentation

University of Stirling Keywords Seminar: Models and Frameworks for Understanding Research Use

Seminar: Knowledge Co-production

Seminar: Enabling the conditions for nursing expertise to flourish

UKES Conference November 2009 contribution: The impact of audit, inspection and scrutiny: some lessons from practice

New publication: The use of evidence in the audit, inspection and scrutiny of government

New report: NORFACE Seminar Report 3 is now available

KTA Workshop 5th - 6th March 2009. Further information...

International Workshop on Organisational Case Study Methods. Full story...

Research Influences Policy. Full story...

New article: Flows of knowledge, expertise and influence: a method for assessing policy and practice impacts from social science research

ESRC seminar series on Evidence and Knowledge Production. Full story...

Leading national role putting RURU ideas into action. Full story...

New report: NORFACE Seminar Report 2 is now available

Details for NORFACE Seminar 3 are now available full story...

Scottish Funding Council support for a Knowledge Exchange Network. Full story...

New article: Why "knowledge transfer" is misconceived for applied social research

Upcoming event: Prof Sandra Nutley to speak at 'Knowledge in Motion Conference 2008'

New article: Evidence and Policy Networks: the UK debate about sex offender community notification

New article: The many forms of research-informed practice: a framework for mapping diversity

Quality Improvement Scotland – two funded research projects. Full story...

NORFACE Seminar Series update...

New project: 'The use of evidence in the audit, inspection and scrutiny of government' full story...

RURU to co-host NORFACE Seminar Series full story...

Seminar on 'Using Evidence in the Scottish Polity' full story...

Using evidence: How Research Can Inform Public Services full story...

RURU has relocated to Edinburgh full story...

RURU - the New Zealand Owl full story...

Keywords

Keywords have been developed specifically for the RURU database. These aim to support more precise searching, and exclude the kinds of keywords that would typically identify the papers which the database holds such as Research utilisation or Evidence-based policy and practice.

Keyword listing

Keywords have been developed according to the following categories:
• Sector relevant keywords
• Keywords relating to research utilisation issues and theories
• Keywords relating to the types of research that get used
• Keywords relating to methodological issues around studying research utilisation
• Keywords relating to different interventions to improve the use of research
• Keywords for related topics and theories
• Keywords denoting the national setting of a study or initiative.

A full keyword listing by category is provided below. For clarity, keywords are presented here in uppercase but searches on keywords are not case sensitive. Keywords are under continual development and will be added to as more references are added to the database.

Sector keywords:


• Health care:

CANCER
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)
Doctors: see PHYSICIANS
DRUG PRESCRIBING
Drug prescriptions: see DRUG PRESCRIBING
HEALTH INEQUALITIES
HEALTH SERVICES UTILISATION
IMMUNISATION
Hospitals: see SECONDARY CARE
LONG TERM CARE
MENTAL HEALTH
Nurses: see NURSING
NURSING
Nursing homes: see LONG TERM CARE
OBESITY
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Patients: see SERVICE USERS
PHYSICIANS
PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
Prescribing: see DRUG PRESCRIBING
Prescriptions: see DRUG PRESCRIBING
PROFESSIONS ALLIED TO MEDICINE
PRIMARY CARE
RURAL SETTINGS
SECONDARY CARE
SERVICE USERS
STROKE

Key evidence-based policy/practice projects:
FACTS
FRONT-LINE EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE (EBM) PROJECT
PACE (PROMOTING ACTION ON CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS)
NORTH THAMES PURCHASER-LED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS

• Education:

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Elementary education (US): see PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
FURTHER EDUCATION
HIGHER EDUCATION
High school education (US): see PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
Middle school education (US): see PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
LANGUAGE EDUCATION
LEARNING DISABILITIES
LITERACY
PGCE: see PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Primary education: see PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
Secondary education: see PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION
Student teachers: see PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
SCIENCE EDUCATION

• Social care

Abused children: see CHILD ABUSE
ADOPTION
Ageing: see OLDER PEOPLE
Alcohol abuse/misuse/use: see SUBSTANCE ABUSE
CARE MANAGEMENT
CARERS
CHILD ABUSE
Child care: see LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
Child neglect: see CHILD ABUSE
CHILD PROTECTION
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Criminal justice social work: see PROBATION
DISABILITY
Elderly people: see OLDER PEOPLE
ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS
Families with disabled children: see DISABILITY
Foster care: see LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
LONG TERM CARE
LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
MENTAL HEALTH
Neglected children: see CHILD ABUSE
Nursing homes: see LONG TERM CARE
OLDER PEOPLE
Physically abused children: see CHILD ABUSE
SERVICE USERS
Sexually abused children: see CHILD ABUSE
SOCIAL WORK
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
YOUNG PEOPLE

• Criminal justice

Alcohol abuse/misuse/use: see SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Boot camps: see OFFENDER PROGRAMMES
Capital punishment: see SENTENCING
COURT CASES
CRIME PREVENTION
CRIME REDUCTION
Criminal justice social work: see PROBATION
DELINQUENCY
Drug abuse/misuse/use: see SUBSTANCE ABUSE
OFFENDER PROGRAMMES
POLICE
PRISONS
PROBATION
SENTENCING
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
YOUTH JUSTICE

• Cross-sector

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
MULTI-AGENCY WORKING

• Keywords relating to research utilisation issues

BARRIERS AND ENABLERS [to using research]
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE (EBM)
GENERALISATION [concerned with the generalisability of research across contexts]
MISUSE OF RESEARCH
MODELS OF RESEARCH USE
NATURE OF EVIDENCE
REPLICATION [concerned with fidelity of replication of research findings]
RESEARCH-BASED PROGRAMMES
RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING
RESEARCH COMMISSIONING
RESEARCH FUNDING
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH METHODS
RESEARCH PLANNING
RESEARCH POLICY
RESEARCH USE INITIATIVES
RESEARCH USERS
THINK TANKS
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
TYPES OF RESEARCH USE
UNDERUSE OF RESEARCH
USER INVOLVEMENT

• Keywords relating to research utilisation theories

TWO COMMUNITIES
SUSTAINED INTERACTIVITY

• Keywords relating to the types of research that get used

ACTION RESEARCH
COST EFFECTIVENESS
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
EVALUATION
EXPERIMENTS
INTERACTIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE (ISS)
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
META-ANALYSES
PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (PAR)
RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTs)
Randomised social experiments: see RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTs)
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

• Keywords relating to methodological issues around studying research utilisation

METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH USE MEASURES

• Keywords relating to interventions used to promote the use of research

Academic detailing see EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
ACTION RESEARCH
AUDIT AND FEEDBACK
CLIENT-MEDIATED INTERVENTIONS
COLLABORATION
COMPUTER SUPPORT SYSTEMS
CRITICAL APPRAISAL
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
FILM
GUIDELINES
INCENTIVES
INFORMATION DESIGN
INFORMATION SERVICES
IS see INFORMATION SERVICES
LEADERSHIP
Libraries, librarians see INFORMATION SERVICES
MASS MEDIA
MULTI-FACETED INTERVENTIONS
NETWORKS
OPINION LEADERS
Partnerships - see COLLABORATION
Patient-mediated interventions see CLIENT-MEDIATED INTERVENTIONS
PRACTICE TOOLS
PRACTITIONER RESEARCH
Product champions: see OPINION LEADERS
REMINDERS
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH DISSEMINATION
SOCIAL MARKETING
TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT

• Keywords for related topics and theories

ACCOUNTABILITY
ADULT LEARNING
ATTITUDE CHANGE
AUDIT
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Change models: see MODELS OF CHANGE
COMMUNICATION
Continuing professional development/CPD: see PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Continuous quality improvement (CQI): see QUALITY MANAGEMENT
CYCLE OF INNOVATION
DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS
ICT
Innovation diffusion: see DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS
Information technology: see ICT
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
LEARNING THEORY
MARKETING
MODELS OF CHANGE
MULTI-AGENCY WORKING
Organisation change: see ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING
OUTCOME ASSESSMENT
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLICY NETWORKS
PRACTICE EVALUATION
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
RISK ASSESSMENT
SCIENTIST PRACTITIONER
SOCIAL INFLUENCE THEORY
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
Social marketing: see MARKETING
SOCIAL PROGRAMMES
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Total quality management/TQM: see QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• Keywords denoting the national setting of a study or initiative

AUSTRALIA
BELGIUM
CANADA
DENMARK
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EUROPE
IRELAND
ISRAEL
NETHERLANDS
NEW ZEALAND
NORTHERN IRELAND
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
UGANDA
UK
US

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