Researchers' perspective of real-world impact from UK public health research: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Programme is being undertaken in a complex system which brings opportunities and challenges for researchers to maximise the impact of their research. This study seeks to better understand the facilitators, challenges and barriers to research impact and knowledge mobilisation from the perspective of UK public health researchers. A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, informed by the Payback Framework, with public health researchers who held a research award with the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research programme up to March 2017 was conducted. Following a thematic analysis, three strongly interlinked themes were extracted from the data and three key factors were highl

SUBMITTER: Lakin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9236254 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature