The pivotal position of 'liaison people': Facilitating a research utilisation intervention in policy agencies

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 7-34

  Haynes, Abby ^a,b   Butow, Phyllis ^b   Brennan, Sue ^c   Williamson, Anna ^a   Redman, Sally ^a   Carter, Stacy ^b   Gallego, Gisselle ^d,e   Rudge, Sian ^a  

^a SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Championing; Faciliation; Process evaluation; Research utilisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035221615     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426416X14817284217163     Document Type: Article

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