
Dan Wolstenholme
This blog post is based on the Evidence & Policy article, ‘Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods‘, part of the Special Issue on Creativity and Co-production.
Creative methods help get evidence and policy into practice
Evaluating 14 healthcare improvement and research projects that used creative methods, we identified three interconnected themes that result in the optimal conditions for getting evidence into practice.
Co-production, co-creation and co-design are increasingly used in healthcare research knowledge mobilisation. These methods have grown in popularity, and the broad range of approaches are often used uncritically. Our recently published Evidence & Policy paper focuses on the creativity component of these approaches, specifically when working with design professionals.
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