DO RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS DO ‘POLICY’? HOW RPPs ENGAGE IN AND THINK ABOUT POLICY-RELATED WORK

“I don’t think research-practice partnerships (RPPs) do any policy work since the ‘P’ in RPP stands for ‘practice’ and not ‘policy’.”
This is an assumption we have seen surface, yet at the same time, from what we know, a sizable majority of RPPs actually engage heavily in policy-related work. In this article, we invite our membership to reflect with us and explore what the “practice” in “research-practice partnership” really refers to.