We want our research to make a difference. And we know that happens when knowledge between different communities is shared to catalyse change. This is known as ‘knowledge mobilisation’ (KM).
Knowledge mobilisation is all about the processes that help research to make an impact. Working closely with the communications officer, patient and public involvement (PPI) leads and others, HPRU knowledge mobilisers aim to:
- foster relationships between professionals from universities, UK Health Security Agency, local public health and more widely;
- train, educate and support staff affiliated with our HPRU to help them make a difference;
- develop knowledge mobilisation capacity in and the capability of HPRUs across the country through participation in the pan-HPRU KM Network.
We help researchers to answer three questions:
- What do you want to be different because of your research?
- Who are the people who can make this happen and how can you engage them?
- How can you and they make it happen?
For more on knowledge mobilisation and the similarities and differences with communications and patient and public involvement (PPI), please download a high resolution version of the table below (pdf).
Webinar series
In 2020/21, we ran a webinar series for researchers across the 14 HPRUs in England. For more information, see our Events page and/or download the:
Recordings of the webinars are available on the HPRU BSE YouTube channel.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact Clare Thomas (clare.thomas@bristol.ac.uk).
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