The main goal of knowledge translation (KT) is to ensure that diverse communities benefit from academic research results through improved social and health outcomes. But despite growing interest in researcher-user collaborations, little is known about what makes or breaks these types of relationships. Knowledge Translation in Context is an essential tool for researchers to learn how to be effective partners in the KT process.
Drawing on expertise and studies from across the globe, Elizabeth Banister, Bonnie Leadbeater, and Anne Marshall outline a variety of perspectives on KT processes. Case studies outline the uses of KT in many contexts, including community, policy, Indigenous, and non-profit organizations. While recognizing the specificity of each situation, Knowledge Translation in Context highlights the most important elements that have led KT to succeed (or fail) as a dynamic, multidirectional process.

Elizabeth M. Banister is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria.

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Bonnie J. Leadbeater is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria.

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Anne Marshall is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. She is the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). She is also the author of numerous articles in journals and collections including Slavery & Abolition, Agricultural History, and Master Narratives: Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (Louisiana State University Press, Spring (2013). In 2011 she won the George and Ann Richards Award for best article in The Journal of the Civil War Era.

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‘This should be on the reading list of every practitioner or academic involved in community based quality improvement initiatives that attempt to bridge the ‘‘knowing-doing’’ gap.’

Journal of Canadian Health Libraries Association April 2014