Are We Done Yet? Reflections on the Sustainability of Knowledge Products

While collaborative research approaches help ensure that knowledge products resulting from research will be relevant to stakeholders and increase the likelihood that they will be integrated into practice, there has been limited attention given to the supports essential to maintaining knowledge produ...

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Autores principales:	Karen Gallant, Susan Hutchinson, Catherine White, Fenton Litwiller, Barbara Hamilton-Hinch, Robyn Moran
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Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ed023400341c4996a30bb1ffeb79806e2021-12-01T22:34:06ZAre We Done Yet? Reflections on the Sustainability of Knowledge Products1609-406910.1177/16094069211060925https://doaj.org/article/ed023400341c4996a30bb1ffeb79806e2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211060925https://doaj.org/toc/1609-4069While collaborative research approaches help ensure that knowledge products resulting from research will be relevant to stakeholders and increase the likelihood that they will be integrated into practice, there has been limited attention given to the supports essential to maintaining knowledge products. Focussing on one research project whose knowledge products are heavily used, in this paper, we discuss the challenges associated with maintaining the integrity of these knowledge products, particularly tensions associated with: (1) lack of alignment of our needs, timelines and resources as researchers with those of community partners; (2) the ongoing need to support the evolution of knowledge products despite the conclusion of funding and project infrastructure and (3) lack of clarity about decision-making responsibility related to the ongoing evolution of these knowledge products. Out of these challenges, we offer recommendations for negotiating the evolution of knowledge products and sustaining the Knowledge to Action (KTA) cycle. These recommendations focus on documenting responsibilities for knowledge product maintenance and communication, assigning expiry dates to knowledge products, identifying secure, long-term repositories for knowledge products and planning for engagement of research partners with lived experience in the maintenance of research products.Karen GallantSusan HutchinsonCatherine WhiteFenton LitwillerBarbara Hamilton-HinchRobyn MoranSAGE PublishingarticleSocial sciences (General)H1-99ENInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 20 (2021)
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description	While collaborative research approaches help ensure that knowledge products resulting from research will be relevant to stakeholders and increase the likelihood that they will be integrated into practice, there has been limited attention given to the supports essential to maintaining knowledge products. Focussing on one research project whose knowledge products are heavily used, in this paper, we discuss the challenges associated with maintaining the integrity of these knowledge products, particularly tensions associated with: (1) lack of alignment of our needs, timelines and resources as researchers with those of community partners; (2) the ongoing need to support the evolution of knowledge products despite the conclusion of funding and project infrastructure and (3) lack of clarity about decision-making responsibility related to the ongoing evolution of these knowledge products. Out of these challenges, we offer recommendations for negotiating the evolution of knowledge products and sustaining the Knowledge to Action (KTA) cycle. These recommendations focus on documenting responsibilities for knowledge product maintenance and communication, assigning expiry dates to knowledge products, identifying secure, long-term repositories for knowledge products and planning for engagement of research partners with lived experience in the maintenance of research products.
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title	Are We Done Yet? Reflections on the Sustainability of Knowledge Products
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Are We Done Yet? Reflections on the Sustainability of Knowledge Products

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