Producing policy relevant systematic reviews

Navigating the policy-research interface

Bibliographic Data

ID12889241
AuthorsSandy Oliver (0000-0001-9571-269X, corresponding author), Mukdarut Bangpan (0000-0001-8887-659X), Kelly Dickson (0000-0001-5058-9632)
Year2017
Volume14
Issue02
Pages197-220
Publication date2017-07-05
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEvidence & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-2648 • E-ISSN: 1744-2656
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/174426417x14987303892442
OpenAlexW2724264824
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This study employed insider research and reflective practice to investigate exchanges across the research-policy interface to understand the practice of producing policy-relevant systematic reviews. Interviewees came from 11 systematic reviews or review programmes which spanned four models of policy-relevant reviews and between them provided evidence for understanding policy problems, comparing policy options, or implementing policy decisions. No review methodology was found to be uniquely appropriate for policy-relevant systematic reviews. It was the mutual engagement across the research-policy interface that made the reviews policy-relevant. This involved thinking about the issues and seeing them from multiple viewpoints to identify and shape questions; this prompted implicit or explicit value-driven debates. The intellectual work to shape a policy-relevant systematic review is an iterative, collective endeavour that requires partners from either side of the policy-research interface to engage with the unfamiliar, listen, challenge and co-construct questions and answers

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