Annette Boaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 143027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Boaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette |
| FAMILY NAME | Boaz |
| SIGNATURE | BOAZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0557-1294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 48 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Precarious Capital
Research investigating the experiences of women experiencing homelessness often highlights the prevalence of (sexual/domestic) violence and abuse in their trajectories. Drawing on observations across a sample of English statutory and voluntary sector homelessness services and 60 semi-structured interviews with practitioners and with women with homelessness experiences, this study explores these experiences of gender-based violence and the relatio…
Supporting policy through research funding
ARIs provide a systematic and transparent set of policy research needs which can be used to support cross-government discussions to inform funding processes, both in terms of new research investments and mobilising existing funded research. While funders were committed to knowledge mobilisation, they can lack the skills and capacity required to implement it effectively. That is not to underestimate the volume of time and work required to support …
Role experiences, organisation, and competencies of care navigators in the space between health and social care
Background: Navigating health, social, and community care systems is complex, and can overwhelm individuals and lead to poor health and wellbeing outcomes. A growing workforce of care navigators are employed to assist individuals in navigating between health and social care systems, however, the organisation and experiences of this unique workforce are poorly understood. Approach: The aim of this umbrella review is to synthesise the breadth of ca…
Shifting the centre of gravity in the global evidence ecosystem for health
BOX Global challenges in recent years, including humanitarian, climate-related and public health crises, have highlighted critical weaknesses in the application of evidence in decision-making, both locally and globally
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (Cape) programme in England
CAPE led to an increase in academic-policy engagement activities, mostly as linear and relational interventions. These generated costs as well as benefits and often advantaged individuals with significant prior experience of academic-policy engagement. Future academic-policy engagement interventions should consider motivations, capabilities, goals and resources at the individual and organisation levels, while using strategic planning and coordina…
The Potential for Experienced Occupational Health Professionals in Encouraging Recruitment to the Field in England
Background: The United Kingdom (UK) population is experiencing high levels of economic inactivity due to long‐term sickness absence. Concurrently, the occupational health (OH) workforce, which plays an important role in assisting people back to work and maintaining their health and well‐being at work, is declining in numbers and struggling to recruit. The study aim was to explore the role that experienced OH professionals (OHPs) can play in encou…
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process
Knowledge brokering can play a key role in improving evidence use inside government departments, though this may vary between jurisdictions because different administrations may vary the roles and functions of groups of civil servants. Understanding how different roles could contribute to a brokering approach to evidence use would help fill a gap in researchers' understanding about the evidence-to-policy process and help government departments fo…
The What Works Centres
Leaders, researchers and practitioners from the UK 'What Works Network' share their insights on the successes, failures, and future of the What Works Centres, which have proven successful and popular across a number of policy settings.
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking
Articulating the research priorities of government is one mechanism for promoting the production of relevant research to inform policy. This study focuses on the Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) produced and published by government departments in the UK. Through a qualitative study consisting of interviews with 25 researchers, civil servants, intermediaries and research funders, the authors explored the role of ARIs. Using the concept of boundar…
What works to promote research-policy engagement
Background: To improve the use of evidence in policy and practice, many organisations and individuals seek to promote research-policy engagement activities, but little is known about what works. Aims and objectives: We sought (a) to identify existing research-policy engagement activities, and (b) evidence on impacts of these activities on research and decision making. Methods: We conducted systematic desk-based searches for organisations active i…
Expect the unexpected? Challenges of prospectively exploring stakeholder engagement in research
Stakeholder engagement in research is increasingly viewed as making a major contribution to assisting impact. This paper draws on a longitudinal, prospective impact study exploring stakeholder engagement in a 3-year tobacco control research project which used stakeholder engagement in the development, testing and dissemination of its return on investment tool. The paper presents the challenges of data collection when undertaking prospective resea…
Insights from a cross-sector review on how to conceptualise the quality of use of research evidence
Recent decades have seen widespread efforts to improve the generation and use of evidence across a number of sectors. Such efforts can be seen to raise important questions about how we understand not only the quality of evidence, but also the quality of its use. To date, though, there has been wide-ranging debate about the former, but very little dialogue about the latter. This paper focuses in on this question of how to conceptualise the quality…
Mapping the community
The use of research evidence (URE) in policy and practice is relevant to many academic disciplines, as well as policy and practice domains. Although there has been increased attention to how such evidence is used, those engaged in scholarship and practice in this area face challenges in advancing the field. This paper attempts to “map the field” with the objective of provoking conversation about where we are and what we need to move forward. Util…
Understanding policymakers’ perspectives on evidence use as a mechanism for improving research-policy relationships
This special issue examines how relationships between research and policy in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) can be strengthened. Our contribution draws on three cases from outside the ESE space to analyse policymakers’ perspectives on using evidence to inform decision-making, and to show that government-based policymakers develop ‘policy narratives’ which influence their evidence use. We also illustrate how government department…
A Hierarchy of Power
Amidst statutory and non-statutory calls for effective patient and public involvement (PPI), questions continue to be raised about the impact of PPI in healthcare services. Stakeholders, policy makers, researchers, and members of the public ask in what ways and at what level PPI makes a difference. Patient experience is widely seen as an important and valuable resource to the development of healthcare services, yet there remain legitimacy issues …
Co-creative approaches to knowledge production
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A research protocol for studying participatory processes in the use of evidence in child welfare systems
This paper presents a protocol for a funded study of technical assistance strategies used to support the use of evidence, and, in particular, how participatory processes contribute to the use of evidence to improve outcomes for populations. Findings from the study will increase understanding of the relationships between technical assistance, stakeholder participation and evidence use in child and family services. The authors argue that publishing…
Biopolitics, space and hospital reconfiguration
Major service change in healthcare - whereby the distribution of services is reconfigured at a local or regional level - is often a contested, political and poorly understood set of processes. This paper contributes to the theoretical understanding of major service change by demonstrating the utility of interpreting health service reconfiguration as a biopolitical intervention. Such an approach orients the analytical focus towards an exploration …
The contribution of ethnography to the evaluation of quality improvement in hospital settings
Ethnography is increasingly being used in the evaluation of quality improvement and change initiatives in healthcare settings, particularly in the form of 'focused' and 'rapid' ethnographies. This new ethnographic genre is tailored to suit narrower enquiries within clinical pathways. However, the application of ethnography to the evaluation of quality improvement is not straightforward or free from reductionist bias, particularly in hospital sett…
How to engage stakeholders in research
BACKGROUND: Closing the gap between research production and research use is a key challenge for the health research system. Stakeholder engagement is being increasingly promoted across the board by health research funding organisations, and indeed by many researchers themselves, as an important pathway to achieving impact. This opinion piece draws on a study of stakeholder engagement in research and a systematic literature search conducted as par…
Knowledge commons for evidence use as a democratic and practice good
Whose voices? Patient and public involvement in clinical commissioning
AIM: This paper aims to explore patient and public representation in a NHS clinical commissioning group and how this is experienced by staff and lay members involved. BACKGROUND: Patient and public involvement is believed to foster greater public representativeness in the development and delivery of health care services. However, there is widespread debate about what representation is or what it should be. Questions arise about the different cons…
Applying the rational model of evidence-informed policy and practice in the real world
Politics and practices of knowledge production and use
Rethinking the relationship between science and society
BACKGROUND: The policy imperative to engage the public and patients in research can be seen as part of a wider shift in the research environment. This study addresses the question: Has there been a shift in attitudes to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Public Engagement in Science (PES) amongst researchers? METHODS: Attitudes to PPI and PES within a cluster of three NIHR supported Biomedical Research Centres were explored through in-depth…
Social Science and the Evidence-based Policy Movement
There is a growing interest in ‘ evidence-based policy making’ in the UK. However, there remains some confusion about what evidence-based policy making actually means. This paper outlines some of the models used to understand how evidence is thought to shape or inform policy in order to explore the assumptions underlying ‘evidence-based policy making.’ By way of example, it considers the process of evidence seeking and in particular the systemati…
The practice of policy making
What works to promote research-policy engagement
Background: To improve the use of evidence in policy and practice, many organisations and individuals seek to promote research-policy engagement activities, but little is known about what works. Aims and objectives: We sought (a) to identify existing research-policy engagement activities, and (b) evidence on impacts of these activities on research and decision making. Methods: We conducted systematic desk-based searches for organisations active i…
Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experience
This article reviews what has happened to put into effect the commitment to more evidencebased policy and practice in the UK, by identifying the opportunities this has offered to the research community and reflecting on the ways in which researchers have responded. It identifies a number of issues that remain unresolved and offers an agenda for those who are committed to advancing the application of evidence to policy and practice in the UK and e…
Research, Policy and Practice – Worlds Apart
The relationship between research, policy and practice remains a contested area. This article explores pressures for researchers to make their work more useful and relevant to policy and practice, and for practitioners to undertake research. Whilst there are clearly areas of mutual interest and benefit, we argue that the research, policy and practice communities also have distinct traditions, skills and obligations which should be recognised and …
Pro-active Evaluators
Evidence-based policy making presents challenges for researchers as the pragmatic imperative of delivering `the right information, at the right time, for the right people' can appear to compromise traditional academic roles and responsibilities. Using the recent evaluation of the UK Cabinet Office-led `Better Government for Older People' programme as a case study, we discuss attempts to meet these challenges in practice. Our experience confirms t…
The Perilous Road from Evidence to Policy
Comprehensive reviews of the available research are generally considered to be the cornerstone of contemporary efforts to establish 'evidence-based policy'. This article provides an examination of the potential of this stratagem, using the case study of 'mentoring' programmes. Mentoring initiatives (and allied schemes such as 'coaching', 'counselling', 'peer education' and so on) are to be found in every corner of public policy. Researchers have …
A Hierarchy of Power
Amidst statutory and non-statutory calls for effective patient and public involvement (PPI), questions continue to be raised about the impact of PPI in healthcare services. Stakeholders, policy makers, researchers, and members of the public ask in what ways and at what level PPI makes a difference. Patient experience is widely seen as an important and valuable resource to the development of healthcare services, yet there remain legitimacy issues …
Biopolitics, space and hospital reconfiguration
Major service change in healthcare - whereby the distribution of services is reconfigured at a local or regional level - is often a contested, political and poorly understood set of processes. This paper contributes to the theoretical understanding of major service change by demonstrating the utility of interpreting health service reconfiguration as a biopolitical intervention. Such an approach orients the analytical focus towards an exploration …
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking
Articulating the research priorities of government is one mechanism for promoting the production of relevant research to inform policy. This study focuses on the Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) produced and published by government departments in the UK. Through a qualitative study consisting of interviews with 25 researchers, civil servants, intermediaries and research funders, the authors explored the role of ARIs. Using the concept of boundar…
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
Understanding policymakers’ perspectives on evidence use as a mechanism for improving research-policy relationships
This special issue examines how relationships between research and policy in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) can be strengthened. Our contribution draws on three cases from outside the ESE space to analyse policymakers’ perspectives on using evidence to inform decision-making, and to show that government-based policymakers develop ‘policy narratives’ which influence their evidence use. We also illustrate how government department…
The roles of specialisation and evidence-based practice in inter-professional jurisdictions
What Counts as Research? The Implications for Research Governance in Social Care
Formal independent ethics review has rarely been required for social research, but in England this has changed with the implementation of the Department of Health’s Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care. Permission to conduct research with populations relating to the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Health now depend on a process of independent review. A clear definition of social care research seems vital in impl…
Co-creative approaches to knowledge production
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
A research protocol for studying participatory processes in the use of evidence in child welfare systems
This paper presents a protocol for a funded study of technical assistance strategies used to support the use of evidence, and, in particular, how participatory processes contribute to the use of evidence to improve outcomes for populations. Findings from the study will increase understanding of the relationships between technical assistance, stakeholder participation and evidence use in child and family services. The authors argue that publishing…
The contribution of ethnography to the evaluation of quality improvement in hospital settings
Ethnography is increasingly being used in the evaluation of quality improvement and change initiatives in healthcare settings, particularly in the form of 'focused' and 'rapid' ethnographies. This new ethnographic genre is tailored to suit narrower enquiries within clinical pathways. However, the application of ethnography to the evaluation of quality improvement is not straightforward or free from reductionist bias, particularly in hospital sett…
The future of Evidence & Policy
The future of Evidence & Policy: moving forward from ValenciaIn celebrating the first ten years of Evidence & Policy we wanted to think expansively and creatively about how to move the field forward and identify ways in which Evidence & Policy can contribute to such an advance.To help with this mission, we held a twoday international meeting in Valencia, Spain, in October 2015
Whose evidence is it anyway
Complexity and clarity in evidence use
Social Science and the Evidence-based Policy Movement
There is a growing interest in ‘ evidence-based policy making’ in the UK. However, there remains some confusion about what evidence-based policy making actually means. This paper outlines some of the models used to understand how evidence is thought to shape or inform policy in order to explore the assumptions underlying ‘evidence-based policy making.’ By way of example, it considers the process of evidence seeking and in particular the systemati…
Pro-active Evaluators
Evidence-based policy making presents challenges for researchers as the pragmatic imperative of delivering `the right information, at the right time, for the right people' can appear to compromise traditional academic roles and responsibilities. Using the recent evaluation of the UK Cabinet Office-led `Better Government for Older People' programme as a case study, we discuss attempts to meet these challenges in practice. Our experience confirms t…
Research, Policy and Practice – Worlds Apart
The relationship between research, policy and practice remains a contested area. This article explores pressures for researchers to make their work more useful and relevant to policy and practice, and for practitioners to undertake research. Whilst there are clearly areas of mutual interest and benefit, we argue that the research, policy and practice communities also have distinct traditions, skills and obligations which should be recognised and …
The Perilous Road from Evidence to Policy
Comprehensive reviews of the available research are generally considered to be the cornerstone of contemporary efforts to establish 'evidence-based policy'. This article provides an examination of the potential of this stratagem, using the case study of 'mentoring' programmes. Mentoring initiatives (and allied schemes such as 'coaching', 'counselling', 'peer education' and so on) are to be found in every corner of public policy. Researchers have …
A multitude of syntheses
English This article addresses the synthesis and use of research evidence to inform policy and practice. Reviews of the evidence base in many fields have formed a crucial bridge between research, policy making and practice. Systematic review, in conjunction with meta-analysis, has become an established methodology for locating, selecting, appraising and quantitatively synthesising research evidence according to an explicit and reproducible method…
What Counts as Research? The Implications for Research Governance in Social Care
Formal independent ethics review has rarely been required for social research, but in England this has changed with the implementation of the Department of Health’s Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care. Permission to conduct research with populations relating to the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Health now depend on a process of independent review. A clear definition of social care research seems vital in impl…
Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experience
This article reviews what has happened to put into effect the commitment to more evidencebased policy and practice in the UK, by identifying the opportunities this has offered to the research community and reflecting on the ways in which researchers have responded. It identifies a number of issues that remain unresolved and offers an agenda for those who are committed to advancing the application of evidence to policy and practice in the UK and e…
Perspectives and processes
Closing the gap between evidence and policy
Different patterns of evidence production and use
Beyond the ‘simple logic’ of evidence-based policy
The practice of policy making
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
Deep and wide
Complexity and clarity in evidence use
Strategies for enabling the use of research evidence
Towards a systems perspective on evidence-based policy
Evidence checks and the dynamic interactive and time- and context-dependent nature of research
Whose evidence is it anyway
Models of research impact
Rethinking the relationship between science and society
BACKGROUND: The policy imperative to engage the public and patients in research can be seen as part of a wider shift in the research environment. This study addresses the question: Has there been a shift in attitudes to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Public Engagement in Science (PES) amongst researchers? METHODS: Attitudes to PPI and PES within a cluster of three NIHR supported Biomedical Research Centres were explored through in-depth…
Celebrating Carol Weiss’s legacy
The future of Evidence & Policy
The future of Evidence & Policy: moving forward from ValenciaIn celebrating the first ten years of Evidence & Policy we wanted to think expansively and creatively about how to move the field forward and identify ways in which Evidence & Policy can contribute to such an advance.To help with this mission, we held a twoday international meeting in Valencia, Spain, in October 2015
The roles of specialisation and evidence-based practice in inter-professional jurisdictions
Whose voices? Patient and public involvement in clinical commissioning
AIM: This paper aims to explore patient and public representation in a NHS clinical commissioning group and how this is experienced by staff and lay members involved. BACKGROUND: Patient and public involvement is believed to foster greater public representativeness in the development and delivery of health care services. However, there is widespread debate about what representation is or what it should be. Questions arise about the different cons…
Political science (30 works) · Public relations (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Business (9 works)