Research conducted with policy partners can have a greater chance of impacting policies, programs and services. But how do early career researchers build these partnerships? How do they manage and sustain them? And how do they get their research findings known and used? Our skills-based training course has been developed to address these questions. It draws on the expertise of senior policy makers and researchers to help early career researchers build the skills required to initiate and sustain research partnerships with policy makers.
The course will teach practical skills such as:
- Understanding policy priorities, policy realities and the policy environment
- Embarking on a new policy relationship and building your partnership skills
- Framing your research idea for a policy audience
- Engaging policy makers with your research findings.
The small group workshop (limit of 16 participants) provides an opportunity to learn from senior policy makers, researchers with experience in partnership research and experienced communications specialists. There is a small amount of pre-course work on communicating your research both in writing and verbally (about an hour), and this will be built on during the workshop.
Who should attend?
Early career researchers with significant research expertise, typically at post-doctorate level or with equivalent experience. Suited to those who are interested in influencing health or social policy by working in partnership with decision makers.