How to engage stakeholders in research: design principles to support improvement.

ABSTRACT:

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 part of the study.

Main body

This paper provides a short conceptualisation of stakeholder engagement, followed by 'design principles' that we put forward based on a combination of existing literature and new empirical insights from our recently completed longitudinal study of stakeholder engagement. The design principles for stakeholder

SUBMITTER: Boaz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042393 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature