The document discusses building bridges between research and practice by addressing some key challenges: 1. It addresses the tension between theory and practice, emphasizing the importance of specifying principles over activities to highlight the building blocks for effective support systems across contexts. 2. It acknowledges challenges around incentives and rewards, as traditional tenure and promotion systems may not adequately recognize engaged scholarship and create disincentives for collaboration, especially for untenured faculty. 3. Terminology differences between research and practice are also a challenge that must be addressed to facilitate collaboration and knowledge translation. 4. Measuring real-world impact is difficult but important for demonstrating the value of research to practice communities.

1. Building a bridge over the
family feud of research and
practice
David Phipps, PhD, MBA
Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUixmZwAO_Q

3. The Feud
research practice

4. The Family
FACULTY STAFF
VS

5. The Rules

6. Question #1: Theory vs. practice
We have purposely focused on the principle and processes that should underpin a
support system for enhancing the KTA process. While infrastructure is central to the
delivery of such support it is important to specify principles rather than physical
activities because we want to highlight the building blocks for an effective support
system relevant across a range of contexts
• Adrian Cherney and Brian Head (2011) Supporting the knowledge-to-action process: a
systems-thinking approach. Evidence and Policy. 7(4): 471-488.
By 2010 there had been 32 papers published on the PARiHS framework, but
according to Stetler et al (2011), “No published studies were identified that used the
framework comprehensively and prospectively to develop an implementation project.
The ability to fully evaluate its usefulness thus has been limited.”
• Cheryl B Stetler, Laura J Damschroder, Christian D Helfrich and Hildi J Hagedorn (2011) A
guide for applying a revised version of the PARIHS framework for implementation.
Implementation Science. 6(99).

7. Question #2: Incentives & Rewards
Traditional tenure & promotion fails to equitably recognize engaged
scholarship creating a disincentive for (especially untenured) scholars;
however, we all know faculty who have achieved tenure working closely with
non-academic research partners.
T&P: "critical barrier to engaged scholarship" or "I only wish I had a chance
to get tenure“
www.engagedscholarship.ca

8. Question #3: Terminology

9. Question #4: Impact
What is impact
and how do
you measure
it?

10. Question #5: If I could have one thing…

11. Final Thoughts

12. David Phipps
dphipps@yorku.ca
http://www.researchimpact.ca