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WG5 Knowledge Transfer
In the first year, collaborating groups in this working group will systematically locate, review, and synthesise methodological studies reporting on tools and techniques for knowledge transfer. The findings will be synthesised into a knowledge transfer plan. These findings will be published as a formal systematic review.
In the second year, the data from the other four working groups will be disseminated via the various techniques in the knowledge transfer plan, and the effectiveness of these techniques will be analysed.
Effectiveness will be established in terms of rate and spread of information awareness, and, in the longer term, with respect to changes in policies, strategies, and service delivery.
During the third year, the focus will be specifically on service user engagement. The operation and impact of the CoPs will be analysed, and a review will be undertaken of the research literature reporting service user engagement in policy and organisational development.
Years 3 and 4, a survey will be undertaken in selected European countries of the knowledge transfer strategies used for maternity services staff, and by and for service users. A taxonomy of best practice will be developed, with identification of those systems that work optimally in terms of speed and spread of knowledge transfer and implementation.
Best practice systems will be implemented within the Action as soon as they are identified, and the impact of this will be analysed.
In year four, best practice knowledge transfer will be disseminated and implemented via appreciative inquiry action research techniques in European countries where outcomes are less good for women and babies. The emergent findings from each action research cycle will be fed in to the CoP’s, and used to refine future action research cycles. The impact on the wellbeing of women, infants, and families will be assessed, and rates of prematurity and low birthweight will be measured, particularly in migrant women.
From the second year onwards, grant applications will be prepared to follow up the emerging questions that arise from the work of the WG. These will include an analysis of the impact of best practice knowledge transfer strategies on retention strategy for workers in rural and remote communities.
