Knowledge Mobilisation

Program Overview

This Professional/Short course in Knowledge Mobilisation provides an overview of the historical perspective, theories, and strategies involved in creating, sharing, and using evidence in health and social care. Through distance learning and online activities, students will explore the role of knowledge brokers, decision-making in healthcare, and evaluation toolkits in improving service initiatives. The program culminates in a critical evaluation of how knowledge is used, shared, and validated within current practice.

Program Outline

Outline:

Content:

• Historical perspective of knowledge mobilization.
• Theories involved in the creation, sharing, and uptake of evidence in health and social care.
• Types of knowledge/evidence that inform everyday practice and their strengths and limitations.
• What constitutes evidence within the knowledge mobilization context.
• Individual, organizational, and societal barriers and facilitators to knowledge mobilization.
• Strategies to enable knowledge sharing.
• Co-creation of knowledge to facilitate mobilization practices.
• Role of knowledge brokers in facilitating the mobilization processes.
• Decision making in healthcare commissioning.
• Normalization processes associated with knowledge transformation and mobilization.
• Role of evaluation toolkits in assessing and improving service initiatives.

Structure:

• Distance learning module with asynchronous online activities.
• Learning materials progress through time-dependent release.
• Activities promote student-tutor relationship and cohort identity.
• 27 hours of directed study (e.g., online lectures, seminars).
• Teaching delivered via:
• Up to 8 online lectures (audio podcasts or video capture).
• Other web-based activities.
• Online seminar activities with student-centered active learning techniques.
• Module discussion board or blog.
• Access to Blackboard online learning platform.
• Scheduled learning includes tutorials and supervision via virtual means.
• Independent learning includes online activities, reading, case study preparation, assignment preparation, etc.

Individual Modules:

• Component A (3000 words): Critical evaluation of how knowledge is used, shared, and validated within (your) current practice with reference to contemporary knowledge mobilization theories and strategies.
• This in-depth critical reflection should include:
• Types of knowledge currently used within a practice area (e.g., experiential, clinical, research evidence, relational, organizational, research methods).
• Reflections on why so many types of knowledge are used/required in the real world.
• How each type of knowledge is developed, shared, and validated within practice with reference to the knowledge mobilization literature.

Assessment:

• Formative Assessment: Opportunities exist through Blackboard Collaborate sessions and individual feedback.
• Summative Assessment:
• Component A:
3000-word critical evaluation of how knowledge is used, shared, and validated within your current practice.

Teaching:

• Learning approach utilizes asynchronous online activities.
• Approximately 27 hours of directed study via Blackboard.
• Teaching delivered in the format of up to 8 online lectures (audio podcasts or video capture linked with Adobe presenter or equivalent), plus other web-based activities.
• Online seminar activities include student-centered active learning techniques (e.g., via Collaborate) and access to a module discussion board or blog.
• Scheduled learning includes tutorials and supervision via virtual means (e.g., telephone, email).
• Independent learning forms the vast majority of the educational activity in the module.

Careers:

• This module can contribute towards the MSc Rehabilitation program.

Other:

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Contact:

• Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 81158