Following a few key steps when setting up partnership meetings can make a big difference for engaging participants and ensuring effectiveness, write Felicia Hurwitz and Joanne Pfleiderer, who propose a number of recommendations for planning and facilitating RPP meetings that bring stakeholders together to learn about, strategize, and tackle important issues.
Extra Credit
DEVELOPING BRIEFS THAT BRIDGE THE GAP IN UNDERSTANDING AMONG RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS / POLICYMAKERS
To effectively engage multiple audiences with research findings and implications, an initial conversation with the researcher, structured around the key takeaways that policymakers or practitioners should understand from a particular study, can be a crucial first step towards developing a nontechnical research brief, write Jessica Holter and Jeff Archer, sharing their partnership’s process.
HOW TO LAUNCH A RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
Sharing their experiences around getting a partnership off the ground, Michèle Foster, Matt Linick, Michael Strambler, Joanna Meyer, Clare Irwin, and George Coleman provide insights on navigating this sometimes daunting and seldomly straightforward task.
THE ROLE OF BROKERS IN RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS
As partnerships increasingly ponder the specific roles that might be essential to the success of RPPs, Carrie Conaway, Erin O’Hara, and Jessica Vasan share key insights on their experiences serving as brokers, or boundary spanners, in RPPs.
WHY RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS NEED THEORIES OF ACTION
What does a theory of action have to do with a research-practice partnership (RPP)? And why should I think about having one if I am in an RPP? NNERPP reflects on these questions.
