Month: May 2022

Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods

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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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Four questions relating to creativity and co-production

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Joe Langley, Nicola Kayes, Ian Gwilt, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Sarah Smith and Claire Craig

Reflections arising from an Evidence & Policy Special Issue exploring the role and value of Creative Practices in Co-production. This blog post is based on the Editorial to the Special Issue, ‘Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production‘.

Our Evidence & Policy Special Issue, exploring the value and role of creativity and co-production in research, highlights four key questions:

  1. What constitutes research? And who decides?
  2. What constitutes legitimate knowledge?
  3. What constitutes creativity and co-production in research?
  4. To what extent are we constrained in the opportunities to undertake ‘creative’ research?
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Employer involvement in post-Brexit migration policymaking: the case of UK horticulture

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Sam Frederick Scott

This blog post is based on the Evidence & Policy article, ‘The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: the case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme’.

The UK has faced considerable labour shortages following the Brexit vote and the Covid-19 pandemic. Horticulture is one sector that has been particularly vulnerable, with fears of crops being left to rot in the fields commonly aired. In a new Evidence and Policy research article I look at the public pressure employers put on government, and indeed were invited to put on government, as post-Brexit migration policy emerged. I conclude that, in the case of horticulture, migration policy was made through the intimate entanglement of employers and political elites and that employers got what they wanted: a new seasonal guest worker visa scheme. This new scheme is unprecedented in its scale (up to 40,000 workers) and as broad as possible in scope (potentially global). However, despite this, concerns still remain over continued harvest labour shortages in 2022 and beyond.

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