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Elizabeth Day; Karen Bogenschneider – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Understanding how policymakers define research and differentiate it from other sources of data is critical for scientists to improve how they conduct and communicate research to policy audiences. Yet, few studies have explicitly asked policymakers -- particularly state legislators in the USA -- how they define research evidence.…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Legislators, State Legislation, Scientific Research
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Xiaopeng Wang; Jun Lin; Yan Xin; Ville Ojanen – Creativity Research Journal, 2025
This paper investigates how East-West cross-cultural collaboration affects team research impact. A dataset of international collaboration articles of Chinese scholars was constructed, and then the cultural background of each researcher was traced with a surname and culture category matching process and a manual search process. Empirical analysis…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Social Change, Context Effect, Intercultural Communication
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Tiffany Berry; Brittany Hite; Michelle Sloper; Haley Umans – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
The research-to-practice gap describes the well-documented phenomena of researchers and practitioners working in silos, embedded in vastly different contexts. This "cultural divide" has several causes, including ineffective collaboration, inadequate understanding of context, and insufficient dissemination and translation of research.…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Researchers, Evaluators, Coordinators
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Karen Gray; Lisa Dibsdall; Linda Sumpter; Ailsa Cameron; Paul Willis; Jon Symonds; Matthew Jones; Hugh McLeod; Geraldine Macdonald; Christie Cabral – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Despite calls for greater use of research and an appetite to do so within adult social care, a gap persists between research and practice. Aims and objectives: To explore views of adult social care staff about research and its application to everyday practice. To understand how these might impact upon research use capacity-building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Adults
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Signe Skov; Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: In Denmark, there has been, over decades, an intensified political focus on how humanities research and doctoral education contribute to society. In this vein, the notion of impact has become a central part of the academic language, often associated with terms like use, effects and outputs, stemming from neoliberal ideologies. The purpose…
Descriptors: Humanities, Foreign Countries, Humanities Instruction, Doctoral Programs
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Annie Irvine – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Engaging with primary researchers during qualitative secondary analysis is a practice much recommended but rarely written about. In this article, I reflect on my experience of crossing an imagined boundary between the discrete textual dataset and its creators, of acknowledging and engaging with those researchers who invested in constructing the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Foreign Countries, Primary Sources, Research Methodology