Knowledge Mobilisation
What is Knowledge Mobilisation (KM)?
"It's about getting the right information to the right people in the right format at the right time - by actively collaborating"
These web pages are here to help share the learning our Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows are accumulating through our ARC Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation (KM) Programme.
We will be developing this page into a hub of resources. Please get in touch with any questions and share your thoughts about KM via this email
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As part of a £7.8 Million investment from the NIHR in October 2024, ARC Wessex appointed a Knowledge Mobilisation team including four KM Fellows.
ARC Wessex worked with Hampshire & Isle of Wight (HIoW) and Dorset Integrated Care Boards, provider organisations and Health Innovation Wessex to create a programme directly relevant to needs of patients, service users, carers and health and care systems.
The programme is supported by an advisory group of stakeholders, which meets regularly and monitors the delivery of the programme’s objectives:
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Develop the capability of the KM fellows through increased awareness of training needs and tailored capability development programmes
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Deliver multiple Action Learning Projects to capture insights about KM practices and learning about what works or does not work to share more widely
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Develop a cohort of KM Practitioners across Wessex to support capability and capacity building with our partners and systems
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Actively contribute to ARC Greater Manchester national meetings and Communities of Practice to work in partnership cross-ARCs.
This is us
Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows
Phillipa Darnton is our Implementation and Knowledge Mobilisation Lead
Rachel Tobin is our Knowledge Mobilisation Programme Manager
Dr Jenny Roddis is a Research Fellow and is an Associate Professor in Community Health at the University of Portsmouth
Dr Nicola Andrews is a Research Fellow based in Southampton and is interested in care fo older people and frailty
Dr Kate Lippiet is a Senior Research Fellow based in the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
Mirembe Woodrow is a Senior Research Felloow in Public Health based at the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
This is our resources and tools section
We are busy creating lots of useful tools and resources for you to download and they will appear here as we develop them, so keep an eye out.
If you like our KM umbrella above you can download the image here by clicking the box to the left
Download - 6 Ideas about KM - Steps to Good
Action Learning Projects
The KM Fellows are ‘learning by doing’ and documenting their findings as Action Learning Projects.
Each fellow has their own projects in which they are trialling different KM activities to learn about what works in which circumstances.
This learning will help them to build KM capability and capacity within the ARC Wessex health and social care research system.
Current
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Mental health: learning from providing support to the ARC Wessex Mental Health Hub to adopt knowledge mobilisation strategies for selected projects.
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Skills and knowledge: identifying the skills and knowledge needed for good knowledge mobilisation and developing a national framework for KM professionals and researchers.
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Co-producing clinical academic pathways in Dorset.
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Working with knowledge and information services across Wessex to develop a knowledge mobilisation community of practice
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Mapping what influences decision-making and use of evidence in residential care and home care.
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Supporting care home staff to understand the current evidence base on dehydration risk assessment and apply this to the care home setting, with development of resources to support staff in this setting undertake robust evidence reviews.
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Working with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Partnership to develop and deliver a research assembly.
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Understanding research priorities for care home and home care providers in Wessex.