Research Project Summary

Year Funded: 2013 Budget: Funding Agency: WSIB Research Advisory Council
Title: An Assessment of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Researcher and Stakeholder Perspectives (IWH Project 3155)
Category: Transferring Research Knowledge to the Workplace
Subcategory: Transferring Research
Keywords: occupational health and safety, prevention, knowledge translation
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Issue:

Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is a burgeoning practice for researchers in many fields. Work and health research funders have indicated that knowledge transfer activities are valued. Funders often request specific information about targeted audiences and how the research findings will be communicated and disseminated to the identified groups. This project proposes to examine the use of research within the Ontario prevention system and the KTE practices of researchers in work and health. A broad model of engagement will be employed involving dialogue with key knowledge users/stakeholders and using the framework of an existing self assessment questionnaire to be adapted for use in work and health research.

Objectives:

• To examine the use of research within the Ontario prevention system and the KTE practices of researchers in work and health

Anticipated Results:

Findings from this project will be useful for funders, researchers and knowledge users.

Investigators:

Dwayne Van Eerd, Emma Irvin, Trevor King, Ron Saunders, J Brenneman Gibson