Kathryn Oliver
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4392364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kathryn Oliver |
| PRENOMES | Kathryn |
| SOBRENOME | Oliver |
| ASSINATURA | OLIVER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4326-5258 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
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 …
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes
Background: This paper provides insights into 'Policy to Research' (P2R) Fellowships and related programmes within the 'relationship' model of academic-policy engagement, which provide structured opportunities for policy officials to interact with academic researchers. Aims and objectives: Information is provided on P2R Fellowship and similar programmes in the UK, Europe and North America. The research questions concern the aims, features and int…
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…
Comprehensive Sex Education Addressing Gender and Power
A qualitative evaluation of priority-setting by the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel in Kenya
Kenya’s Ministry of Health established the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel (HBPAP) in 2018 to develop a benefits package for universal health coverage. This study evaluated HBPAP’s process for developing the benefits package against the normative procedural (acceptable way of doing things) and outcome (acceptable consequences) conditions of an ideal healthcare priority-setting process as outlined in the study’s conceptual framework. We con…
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…
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation
Background: Despite the known need for empirical research-to-policy studies, little is known about the factors and conditions needed to support meaningful evidence use or how to intervene to promote quality evidence use. Aims and objectives: To study research-policy processes empirically and descriptively, we conducted an ethnography that focused on the impact of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) on legislator and researcher evidence use…
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…
Using theory and evidence to design behaviour change interventions for reducing unsustainable wildlife consumption
Efforts to shift unsustainable human behaviour are at the crux of many conservation interventions, particularly when addressing illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade. These efforts, often in the form of behaviour change interventions, have proven largely unable to counteract this pervasive issue, however, leading to calls for more robust intervention designs. In behavioural science fields like public health, design processes that integrate huma…
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…
How Should Academics Engage in Policymaking to Achieve Impact
This article reviews the advice from the academic and ‘grey’ literatures to identify a list of dos and don’ts for academics seeking ‘impact’ from their research. From ‘how to do it’ sources, we identify consistent advice on how to engage effectively, largely because it is necessarily vague, safe, and focused primarily on individuals. We then consider the wider policymaking system in which actors make political choices and have unequal access to i…
The dos and don’ts of influencing policy
Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. We searched systematically for, and synthesised, the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures. We condense this advice into eight main recommendations: (1) Do high quality research; (2) make your research relevant and readable; (3) understand policy processes; (4) be accessible to policymakers: engage routinely, flexible, an…
The dark side of coproduction
BACKGROUND: Coproduction, a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders in the research process, has been widely advocated as a means of facilitating research use and impact. We summarise the arguments in favour of coproduction, the different approaches to establishing coproductive work and their costs, and offer some advice as to when and how to consider coproduction. DEBATE: Despite the multiplicity of reasons and incentives to c…
Understanding the unintended consequences of public health policies
UCs can be used to explore the mechanisms underpinning social change caused by public health policies. Articulating these mechanisms is essential for truly evidence-informed decision-making, to enable informed debate about policy options, and to develop evaluation techniques. Future work includes trying to develop a holistic stakeholder-led evaluation process
Evaluating unintended consequences
Evaluating complex interventions and policies is challenging. This is particularly true for the identification of unintended consequences, whether negative or positive. This article uses data from a workshop with policymakers and evaluators to explore the evaluation of unintended consequences. We identify three main challenges for policymakers and evaluators: being able to identify and evaluate unintended effects, to avoid creating unintended eff…
Networks and network analysis in evidence, policy and practice
Evidence-based policymaking is not like evidence-based medicine, so how far should you go to bridge the divide between evidence and policy?
There is extensive health and public health literature on the 'evidence-policy gap', exploring the frustrating experiences of scientists trying to secure a response to the problems and solutions they raise and identifying the need for better evidence to reduce policymaker uncertainty. We offer a new perspective by using policy theory to propose research with greater impact, identifying the need to use persuasion to reduce ambiguity, and to adapt …
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
To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy
Policy makers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy. They use two shortcuts—emotions and beliefs to understand problems and “rational” ways of establishing the best evidence on solutions—to act quickly in complex, multilevel policy‐making environments. Many studies only address one part of this problem. Improving the supply of evidence helps reduce scientific and policy maker uncertainty. However, policy makers also combine their belief…
A systematic review of barriers to and facilitators of the use of evidence by policymakers
New directions in evidence-based policy research
Despite 40 years of research into evidence-based policy (EBP) and a continued drive from both policymakers and researchers to increase research uptake in policy, barriers to the use of evidence are persistently identified in the literature. However, it is not clear what explains this persistence - whether they represent real factors, or if they are artefacts of approaches used to study EBP. Based on an updated review, this paper analyses this lit…
Adverse effects of public health interventions
Public health interventions may have a range of adverse effects. However, there is limited guidance as to how evaluations should address the possibility of adverse effects. This discussion paper briefly presents a framework for thinking about the potential harms of public health interventions, focusing on the following categories: direct harms; psychological harms; equity harms; group and social harms; and opportunity harms. We conclude that the …
Making the most of obesity research
Drawing lessons from research can help policy makers make better decisions. If a large and methodologically varied body of research exists, as with childhood obesity, this is challenging. We present new research and policy objectives for child obesity developed by triangulating user involvement data with a mapping study of interventions aimed at reducing child obesity. The results suggest that enhancing mental wellbeing should be a policy objecti…
OP76 Who Runs Public Health
Background Persistent health inequalities encourage researchers to identify new ways of understanding the policy process. Research shows that informal relationships are implicated in finding evidence and making decisions for public health policy. However, few studies use specialised methods such a network analysis to identify key relationships and actors in the policy process. Furthermore, little is known about the strategies used by these influe…
PP70 Knowledge Brokers or Policy Entrepreneurs? Strategies to Influence the Policy Process
Background Understanding the impact and process of evidence-use in policy has been a major focus for researchers in recent years. Researchers often focus on (a) how to increase uptake of research, (b) validating models of knowledge transfer and (c) advocating for the use of knowledge brokers. Several ‘job descriptions’ for knowledge brokers have been published. However, the influence and impact of knowledge brokers is unclear. Policy actors who a…
To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy
Policy makers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy. They use two shortcuts—emotions and beliefs to understand problems and “rational” ways of establishing the best evidence on solutions—to act quickly in complex, multilevel policy‐making environments. Many studies only address one part of this problem. Improving the supply of evidence helps reduce scientific and policy maker uncertainty. However, policy makers also combine their belief…
How Should Academics Engage in Policymaking to Achieve Impact
This article reviews the advice from the academic and ‘grey’ literatures to identify a list of dos and don’ts for academics seeking ‘impact’ from their research. From ‘how to do it’ sources, we identify consistent advice on how to engage effectively, largely because it is necessarily vague, safe, and focused primarily on individuals. We then consider the wider policymaking system in which actors make political choices and have unequal access to i…
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…
Adverse effects of public health interventions
Public health interventions may have a range of adverse effects. However, there is limited guidance as to how evaluations should address the possibility of adverse effects. This discussion paper briefly presents a framework for thinking about the potential harms of public health interventions, focusing on the following categories: direct harms; psychological harms; equity harms; group and social harms; and opportunity harms. We conclude that the …
Networks and network analysis in evidence, policy and practice
Evaluating unintended consequences
Evaluating complex interventions and policies is challenging. This is particularly true for the identification of unintended consequences, whether negative or positive. This article uses data from a workshop with policymakers and evaluators to explore the evaluation of unintended consequences. We identify three main challenges for policymakers and evaluators: being able to identify and evaluate unintended effects, to avoid creating unintended eff…
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…
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation
Background: Despite the known need for empirical research-to-policy studies, little is known about the factors and conditions needed to support meaningful evidence use or how to intervene to promote quality evidence use. Aims and objectives: To study research-policy processes empirically and descriptively, we conducted an ethnography that focused on the impact of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) on legislator and researcher evidence use…
Making the most of obesity research
Drawing lessons from research can help policy makers make better decisions. If a large and methodologically varied body of research exists, as with childhood obesity, this is challenging. We present new research and policy objectives for child obesity developed by triangulating user involvement data with a mapping study of interventions aimed at reducing child obesity. The results suggest that enhancing mental wellbeing should be a policy objecti…
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
PP70 Knowledge Brokers or Policy Entrepreneurs? Strategies to Influence the Policy Process
Background Understanding the impact and process of evidence-use in policy has been a major focus for researchers in recent years. Researchers often focus on (a) how to increase uptake of research, (b) validating models of knowledge transfer and (c) advocating for the use of knowledge brokers. Several ‘job descriptions’ for knowledge brokers have been published. However, the influence and impact of knowledge brokers is unclear. Policy actors who a…
Patients’ and clinicians’ research priorities
BACKGROUND: If research addresses the questions of relevance to patients and clinicians, decision-makers will be better equipped to design and deliver health services which meet their needs. To this end, a number of initiatives have engaged patients and clinicians in setting research agendas. This paper aimed to scope the research literature addressing such efforts. METHODS: A systematic search strategy combined electronic searches of bibliograph…
Incorporating uncertainty in aggregate burden of disease measures
BACKGROUND: Summary measures of population health (SMPH) combine information about morbidity and mortality as a means of describing the health of a population and allow for the comparison between otherwise incomparable health problems. Despite the widespread use of SMPHs in global public health policy, the uncertainty in their calculation, inherent due to the variable quality and availability of data from different sources required to calculate S…
Making the most of obesity research
Drawing lessons from research can help policy makers make better decisions. If a large and methodologically varied body of research exists, as with childhood obesity, this is challenging. We present new research and policy objectives for child obesity developed by triangulating user involvement data with a mapping study of interventions aimed at reducing child obesity. The results suggest that enhancing mental wellbeing should be a policy objecti…
OP76 Who Runs Public Health
Background Persistent health inequalities encourage researchers to identify new ways of understanding the policy process. Research shows that informal relationships are implicated in finding evidence and making decisions for public health policy. However, few studies use specialised methods such a network analysis to identify key relationships and actors in the policy process. Furthermore, little is known about the strategies used by these influe…
PP70 Knowledge Brokers or Policy Entrepreneurs? Strategies to Influence the Policy Process
Background Understanding the impact and process of evidence-use in policy has been a major focus for researchers in recent years. Researchers often focus on (a) how to increase uptake of research, (b) validating models of knowledge transfer and (c) advocating for the use of knowledge brokers. Several ‘job descriptions’ for knowledge brokers have been published. However, the influence and impact of knowledge brokers is unclear. Policy actors who a…
PP20 Improved Identification of Chronic Kidney Disease Cases in Primary Care
Background Undiagnosed chronic kidney disease (CKD) leads to a high cost and care burden in secondary care. Current stage 3–5 prevalence is estimated at 6.35%, but recorded prevalence in primary care is often significantly lower. Increasing the prevalence of diagnosed CKD in primary care would allow management and prevention of deterioration, but detection rates for CKD remain low. We developed a primary care quality improvement intervention to h…
A systematic review of barriers to and facilitators of the use of evidence by policymakers
New directions in evidence-based policy research
Despite 40 years of research into evidence-based policy (EBP) and a continued drive from both policymakers and researchers to increase research uptake in policy, barriers to the use of evidence are persistently identified in the literature. However, it is not clear what explains this persistence - whether they represent real factors, or if they are artefacts of approaches used to study EBP. Based on an updated review, this paper analyses this lit…
Adverse effects of public health interventions
Public health interventions may have a range of adverse effects. However, there is limited guidance as to how evaluations should address the possibility of adverse effects. This discussion paper briefly presents a framework for thinking about the potential harms of public health interventions, focusing on the following categories: direct harms; psychological harms; equity harms; group and social harms; and opportunity harms. We conclude that the …
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
To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy
Policy makers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy. They use two shortcuts—emotions and beliefs to understand problems and “rational” ways of establishing the best evidence on solutions—to act quickly in complex, multilevel policy‐making environments. Many studies only address one part of this problem. Improving the supply of evidence helps reduce scientific and policy maker uncertainty. However, policy makers also combine their belief…
Evidence-based policymaking is not like evidence-based medicine, so how far should you go to bridge the divide between evidence and policy?
There is extensive health and public health literature on the 'evidence-policy gap', exploring the frustrating experiences of scientists trying to secure a response to the problems and solutions they raise and identifying the need for better evidence to reduce policymaker uncertainty. We offer a new perspective by using policy theory to propose research with greater impact, identifying the need to use persuasion to reduce ambiguity, and to adapt …
Networks and network analysis in evidence, policy and practice
The dos and don’ts of influencing policy
Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. We searched systematically for, and synthesised, the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures. We condense this advice into eight main recommendations: (1) Do high quality research; (2) make your research relevant and readable; (3) understand policy processes; (4) be accessible to policymakers: engage routinely, flexible, an…
The dark side of coproduction
BACKGROUND: Coproduction, a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders in the research process, has been widely advocated as a means of facilitating research use and impact. We summarise the arguments in favour of coproduction, the different approaches to establishing coproductive work and their costs, and offer some advice as to when and how to consider coproduction. DEBATE: Despite the multiplicity of reasons and incentives to c…
Understanding the unintended consequences of public health policies
UCs can be used to explore the mechanisms underpinning social change caused by public health policies. Articulating these mechanisms is essential for truly evidence-informed decision-making, to enable informed debate about policy options, and to develop evaluation techniques. Future work includes trying to develop a holistic stakeholder-led evaluation process
Evaluating unintended consequences
Evaluating complex interventions and policies is challenging. This is particularly true for the identification of unintended consequences, whether negative or positive. This article uses data from a workshop with policymakers and evaluators to explore the evaluation of unintended consequences. We identify three main challenges for policymakers and evaluators: being able to identify and evaluate unintended effects, to avoid creating unintended eff…
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…
How Should Academics Engage in Policymaking to Achieve Impact
This article reviews the advice from the academic and ‘grey’ literatures to identify a list of dos and don’ts for academics seeking ‘impact’ from their research. From ‘how to do it’ sources, we identify consistent advice on how to engage effectively, largely because it is necessarily vague, safe, and focused primarily on individuals. We then consider the wider policymaking system in which actors make political choices and have unequal access to i…
Using theory and evidence to design behaviour change interventions for reducing unsustainable wildlife consumption
Efforts to shift unsustainable human behaviour are at the crux of many conservation interventions, particularly when addressing illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade. These efforts, often in the form of behaviour change interventions, have proven largely unable to counteract this pervasive issue, however, leading to calls for more robust intervention designs. In behavioural science fields like public health, design processes that integrate huma…
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation
Background: Despite the known need for empirical research-to-policy studies, little is known about the factors and conditions needed to support meaningful evidence use or how to intervene to promote quality evidence use. Aims and objectives: To study research-policy processes empirically and descriptively, we conducted an ethnography that focused on the impact of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) on legislator and researcher evidence use…
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…
Comprehensive Sex Education Addressing Gender and Power
A qualitative evaluation of priority-setting by the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel in Kenya
Kenya’s Ministry of Health established the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel (HBPAP) in 2018 to develop a benefits package for universal health coverage. This study evaluated HBPAP’s process for developing the benefits package against the normative procedural (acceptable way of doing things) and outcome (acceptable consequences) conditions of an ideal healthcare priority-setting process as outlined in the study’s conceptual framework. We con…
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…
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