From Evidence & Policy Editors' Choice Collection: 'Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review' by Emma Hock et al. #FreeAccess until 31 October: doi.org/10.1332/1744... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

'Knowledge practices in integrated care: an examination of health and social care teams using collective knowledge creation theory' From our latest issue 21.3, by Vicky Ward: Read with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

In this free paper we identify the different ways health care staff are involved in applied health research, the benefits they experienced, and whether this varies by type of involvement. What are your experiences? health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/4

Interested in making a difference with local authorities through research and knowledge mobilisation? Apply for two Research Associate posts to work as part of a great team @nihr-phirst.bsky.social Fusion, led by @petercraig.bsky.social and me! Closes 28 August. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

New implementation strategy taxonomy, grounded in Normalization Process Theory - terrific work led by @carlrmay.bsky.social and band - I enjoyed and am proud of having played second fiddle 🙃 #ImpSci #NPT

'What it really takes to mobilise knowledge: lessons from Danish street-level organisations' The latest on the Evidence & Policy Blog, by @dortecaswell.bsky.social‬ and Tanja Dall: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/07/02/w... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

📢 The latest inFuse e-newsletter is out now! ⬇️ 🧒 Child obesity & food insecurity 🏆 #FuseAwards25 💻 E-learning course on healthy food planning 🏅 Honours for health equity leaders 🌈 LGBTQ+ disadvantage & marginalisation in care 🔥 Warm Spaces & fuel poverty us5.campaign-archive.com?u=b256de1fa5...

I am very happy to share that I have been promoted to full research Professor at @northumbriauni.bsky.social in Public Health & Knowledge Mobilisation from 1 September 😊 I believe that research is a deeply collaborative effort with many partners, including those outside of academia; therefore I 1/3

Great #HSRUK25 workshop by Gemma McKenna about engaging government and policymakers, with roleplay (how to talk to your MP) and top tips for writing a policy brief. #KMb

Gillian Vance opening #HSRUK25 plenary this morning by highlighting the workload challenges experienced by health & care staff in underserved areas, and how the new NIHR funded partnership for workforce sustainability (Workforce Voices) will research and co-design solutions with local stakeholders.

Fun #HSRUK25 workshop by Robert Heggie, Carlos Sillero-Rejon @amylougrove.bsky.social on implementation and health economics: making decisions with coins/ sweets about balancing intervention & cost effectiveness with implementation challenges and equity, ending with thoughtful reflections #KMb

Great opening panel #HSRUK25 about bridging practice, policy and research: it’s all about relationships, knowing when to work with the grey and speaking truth to power, and stick with the ‘old chestnuts’ (enduring themes) #KMb

Many congratulations to Leah Buhrmann for passing her Viva today with minor corrections. 🥳 And many thanks to the always excellent examiners @annetteboaz.bsky.social and Leah Avery. @sebastianpotthoff.bsky.social @tracyfinch.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social

Insightful pre-Viva presentation by Leah Buhremann on her PhD thesis ‘Navigating Implementation Context in Integrated Health and Social Care: Co-development of a toolkit for implementation practitioners’. Essential reading for bridging the gap between planning and realisation of social prescribing.

Off to @local.gov.uk conf nxt week? #Liverpool. Join our PHIRST sessions @nihrlambethhdrc.bsky.social @helenmw66.bsky.social @dph-mashton.bsky.social @lauralamming.bsky.social @pvandergraaf.bsky.social @profkebrown.bsky.social @susiesykes.bsky.social @janedwills.bsky.social

Fiona Graham researched the implementation of #virtualwards in the integrated care system of the North East and North Cumbria from a commissioner perspective. Service was seen as additional and technology optional, with barriers around integrating infrastructures and cultures @nihrarcs.bsky.social

@bkbareham.bsky.social explaining the development of #virtualwards at Northumbria NHS FT using Normalisation Process Theory to highlight barriers and facilitators, such as leadership, co-design, limited adaptability of governance, patient understanding and inequality. @nihrarcs.bsky.social

Great to be at the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Hospital at Home and Virtual Wards Conference 2025 in Leeds to share #knowledge between researchers, clinicians and practitioners to support mobilisation of research evidence across ARCs into practice and policy. #KMb @nihrarcs.bsky.social

Great to see Evidence & Policy has placed in the top quartile of the JCR, with an Impact Factor of 2.5, ranking 41/271 in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary category. I am proud to be an Associate Editor of this journal working with a fantastic editorial team 😊

Many congratulations to Felicity Shelton for winning the #FuseAward25 for Excellence in Public Involvement and Engagement! Very well deserved 🥇 @fuseonline.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social

New issue from Evidence & Policy! Vol 21 No 2 (May 2025) With Themed Section on Learning through Comparison, guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Niklas Andersen & Valérie Pattyn Explore the issue: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @bupjournals.bsky.social

New free paper on improving financial support services for users with complex health needs: a mixed-method economic evaluation of Social Navigators in South Tyneside. @nihr-phirst.bsky.social Fusion co-produced this evaluation with the local authority. 1/5 bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/14/2...

Fuse Associate Director @pvandergraaf.bsky.social from @northumbriauni.bsky.social presenting at #EIE2025 on how negative and positive feedback loops help us to understand systems change, and provide insights into the unintended consequences of policy implementation.

Great presentation by Hannah Durant about the key features and practices of knowledge mobilisation #EIE2025 #KMb

Excellent presentation by Harriet Koorts about using system thinking for scaling up interventions: scaling is not an implementation problem, it is political and nobody talks about not scaling and scaling down. Perceived credibility (not based on research) often informs scaling decisions #EIE2025

Excellent early career key note by Alex Waddell at #EIE2025 about the interface between digital health and implementation science, emphasising the need for acknowledging different ways of knowing and definitions of evidence and therefore the need for multidisciplinary teams.

Second keynote by Anette Boaz at #EIE2025 emphasis that implementation is deeply relational work with adaptive relational implementation strategies having the most impact on policy.

Great opening key note by Carl May at the #EIE2025 about the importance of #trust for dealing with uncertainly when implementing research in complex systems (while introducing a new implementation superhero: Samurai Bear 😊)

Come work with me as part of a great team across different universities who are centres of excellence in public health research 😊

Job klaxon!📣Join the fabulous @nihr-phirst.bsky.social Fusion team as a Knowledge Exchange Broker to lead on our #KMb strategy, while co-producing evaluations with local authorities to impact public health services. Fixed term for 5 years; Apply by 18 June! work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

Our Vice Chancellor's Fellowship in Evaluation Methods in Health and Social Care will be appointed at Assistant or Associate Professor level. We welcome applicants from disciplines such as public health, social sciences, allied health, or health economics. work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

Fantastic opportunities - across psychology, sports science and health and social care research - to join us in a VC Fellow role @northumbriauni.bsky.social Including working with us in @northumbriaideas.bsky.social National Evaluation Team. Do get in touch for more info or a conversation.

When you travel with @ryanairofficial.bsky.social, don’t book a hire car through their website. When we arrived for our holiday in Mallorca, there were 3.5 hours queues at the check in desk for Goldcar with rude staff refusing to help us. In the end, we were forced to book a taxi.

New issue, now published! Vol 21 No 2 (May 2025) With Themed Section on Learning through Comparison, guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Niklas Andersen & Valérie Pattyn Explore the issue: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

Blog: “We cannot afford to wait” Fuse researchers @newcastleuni.bsky.social join people with lived experience to call for urgent government action to improve support for people with severe mental ill-health #fuseblog for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 🔽 fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/we-c...

Have you read the latest from the Evidence & Policy Blog? 'Learning through comparison' by @profkatsmith.bsky.social et al.: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/05/07/l... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

Have you read the latest from the Evidence & Policy Blog? 'Learning through comparison' by @profkatsmith.bsky.social et al.: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/05/07/l... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

🌟 New E-Learning Course Alert! 🌟 Our new course, "Planning for a Healthier Food Environment," is now live on FutureLearn! 🔗 www.futurelearn.com/courses/plan...

Important findings from our ESRC funded research @northumbriauni.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

'When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research' From Evidence & Policy, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

The third in our KNOW-PH webinar series is on the 1st July with @joelangley.bsky.social Laura @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social @andytattersall.bsky.social and Fiona Marshall to discuss 'Creative methods and practices to mobilising public health knowledge'. #PublicHealth #HealthEquality bit.ly/4cBFZd2

Have you read the latest Evidence & Policy blog? 'Excellence in practice-based research: beyond academia and into action' by Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz et al. evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/04/02/e... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

'Learning through comparison when studying #evidence and #policy' New from Evidence & Policy, by Katherine E. Smith et al.: doi.org/10.1332/1744... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

A multi-million-pound grant has been awarded by @nihr.bsky.social to a group of researchers – including Northumbria University academics – to help tackle challenges facing healthcare workers in remote and deprived areas. Read more: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

'Excellence in practice-based research: beyond academia and into action' New from the Evidence & Policy Blog, by Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz et al. evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/04/02/e... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

If you missed any of the presentations at last week's #LGAPublicHealth25 and @adphuk.bsky.social conference, these are now available online➡️ bit.ly/3R5xn4D.

Thinking about submitting an EoI to the PHIRST scheme? Want to ask some questions? Join the webinar 📅 30 April, 2-3.30PM to hear about the scheme and ask your questions. Email [email protected] to register your interest

Join our next Peer Research Community of Practice event to hear from Ang Broadbridge, Head of Implementation @ Ways to Wellness, who'll discuss the 'insider status' of the peer researcher. Tue 27 May, 1pm - 3pm, online tinyurl.com/PRCOP2705

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries