Benefits
Some organizations are promoting the same process under different names, such as knowledge dissemination, knowledge translation, knowledge transfer and exchange. While they may be known by different labels, these processes share by design an interactive dialogue and engagement between the producers and users of the knowledge. This has been called: The Lavalife of Science and the sooner that such dialogue starts the better. Both those involved in creating the research knowledge and the potential users of the findings can benefit from each other's knowledge and perspective. Unlike science communication, research dissemination, or other less interactive forms of knowledge transfer (such as producer push), knowledge mobilization seeks to create knowledge-based relationships between researchers and research users that enable and contextualize the sharing of codified “evidence” and other forms of knowing. Because knowledge mobilization is focused on human interaction, the process of research utilization cannot be disentangled from the product of research itself. In essence, the research user, working in harmony with the research scientist, drives the uptake of research through collaboration and stakeholder leadership.
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Famous quotes containing the word benefits:
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their full share in the world’s work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“When your parents are in political life, you aren’t normal. Everybody talks about the benefits, but I don’t know what the benefits are.... But I’d rather have that kind of mother than an overweight housewife.”
—Katherine Berman Mariano (b. 1957)
“Unfortunately, we cannot rely solely on employers seeing that it is in their self-interest to change the workplace. Since the benefits of family-friendly policies are long-term, they may not be immediately visible or quantifiable; companies tend to look for success in the bottom line. On a deeper level, we are asking those in power to change the rules by which they themselves succeeded and with which they identify.”
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)