Research
Sticky Knowledge Tool kit?
A sticky broker’s tool kit: Knowledge brokering should stick, shouldn’t it? Updates have just been added [March 2010] to the first two parts in the Knowledge Hub. Between November 2009 and the end of this month I will present all five parts of my tool kit.
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Generating new knowlege and applying this knowledge is central to the work of CIHM. We undertake major pieces of academic research and we work with partners nationally and globally in our quest to deliver more efficient and effective public services.
Based at Leeds University Business School at the University of Leeds, internationally renowned for world class research and the UK’s eighth biggest research powerhouse (RAE 2008), gives us complete freedom of thought and expression and the opportunity to explore radical ideas.
Many of our network would not classify themselves as scholars, but in our eyes they are embarking on stretching scholarly work on innovation in health management in systems – click here to find out more about our team.
We are involved in a number of projects involving academic colleagues across the University. A sample of our current work imcludes:
- The new inter-disciplinary Centre for Socio-Technical Systems Design, focused on the design of new buildings and infrastructures to promote and enable inspirational work. Becky Malby, CIHM Director, is on the management group of the Centre and will be leading the research activity for CIHM in this area.
- A European COST Programme on “Management and medicine in European health systems: implications for control, innovation and user voice”. This is a joint project between the Faculties of Business and Medicine & Health.
- Within our work on co-producing health we have been conducting research into “Health Learning Journeys“. Here we have been asking questions like: How do people learn to live with a long-term condition? What would happen if we explored this from a learning rather than illness perspective? How might this change the way in which we design and deliver services for people with long term conditions? Clink on the link above to find out more.
- We have two knowledge transfer partnerships in action. Amandeep Braich is working in Pfizer Health Solutions on co-production and Neil Wolfenden is working at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust to help develop more productive medicine/management relationships.
- The Health Foundation has commissioned CIHM to conduct research to surface and clarify the key effective interventions that the Health Foundation believes work in creating leadership knowledge, behaviours, skills, competences, or ‘habits of mind’, relating to quality improvement.
We have a holistic and transformational approach to research. We are non-purist. We are involved in changing practices and processes and we want to create transformational knowledge to enable change.
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