Transcript CoCoon & CCMCC Conference

How can funders encourage more
effective research uptake?
Exploratory
Workshop
Wellcome Trust
16 December 2014
Objectives:
 Share experience on how research funders
can encourage more effective research
uptake
 Explore the appetite and scope for future
collaboration in developing this agenda
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Plan for the day
MORNING
AFTERNOON
10.15 Setting the context:
Louise Shaxson (RAPID)
13.00 Lunch
10.45 Sharing experience:
the funder’s perspective
14.00 Identifying common threads
11.45 Coffee
15.30 Where next for this agenda?
12.00 Sharing experience: the
practitioner’s perspective
16.00 Wrap up/close
PARKING
LOT
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Sharing experience: the
funder’s perspective
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Han van Dijk (NWO)
Tarah Friend (DFID)
Nina Marshall (ESRC)
Amy Kirbyshire (CDKN)
Val Snewin (Wellcome Trust)
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Sharing experience: the
practitioner's perspective
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Josine Stremmelaar (HIVOS)
Caroline Cassidy (DEGRP/EPG)
Vanessa Nigten (The Broker) + Evert-Jan Quak
(Knowledge Platform Food & Business)
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Rosalind Goodrich (IIED)
James Georgalakis (IDS)
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Identifying common threads
Group
Approach
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Building uptake into individual projects
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Creating knowledge hubs to coordinate efforts
within research programmes
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Supporting knowledge intermediaries/brokers
that work across multiple programmes
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Building capacity to use research evidence
Questions to address
 What are the strengths/what situations
does it work best?
 Challenges/limitations?
 How well can it connect with demand?
 How to balance excellence & impact?
 What should funders do differently to
support this?
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Where next?
 Is there an appetite to pursue this
discussion further?
 What would be most useful?
 Who else to engage?
 Who would like to lead/fund this?
 Immediate next steps?
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