Dissemination of research findings is a part of the research process. Dissemination is the transfer of research-based knowledge to the ones that can best make use of it. The aims of dissemination are: awareness; understanding and action Typically, research is not fully complete until the findings have been made widely available. However, researchers need to be aware of any agreements with funding providers which might prescribe if, when and how research findings can b Knowledge generated from research projects has a tendency to stay where it is generated. Thre are barriers to effective dissemination:

• Institutional priorities/organization culture

• Practical difficulties

• Technical and infrastructural barriers

• Anxiousness about critical peer review

Dissemination of research findings goes beyond formal publication in journals or books and can include non-refereed publications, web pages, other media and digital repositories.

Communication means taking strategic and targeted measures for promoting the action itself and its results to a multitude of audiences, including the media and the public, and possibly engaging in a two-way exchange.

Exploitation is the use of the results during and after the project’s implementation. It can be for commercial purposes but also for improving policies, and for tackling economic and societal problems.

The European Union increasingly funds activities to increase impact from EU funded research, especially in the social sciences. Maybe there is some inspiration in this for you. Here are two projects that I am aware of:

Dandelion: http://www.dandelion-europe.eu/en/

Impact-EV: http://impact-ev.eu/

Dear Akash Saxena,

There are currently a number of theoretically-informed frameworks available to researchers that can be used to help guide their dissemination planning and activity. Given the current emphasis on enhancing the uptake of knowledge about the effects of interventions into routine practice, funders could consider encouraging researchers to adopt a theoretically-informed approach to their research dissemination.

Furthermore you can find more information from following links

https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-5-91

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21092164

Thanks!!

What should researchers do is disseminating the research findings through a diversity of channels: scientific journals, posters, radios, televisions, newspapers, ... The weaknesses of the research findings dissemination today is the weak use of the channels that are more accessible and used by the non scientific people. After publishing the articles in the scientific journals (with impact factor or not), it will be interesting to also communicate seriously on the findings through newspapers, radios and televisions. Then, the effort to be done now by the researchers is to adapt the message to the specificities of these kinds of channels.

We look at the issues around how to improve the impact of academic research in this article: Andrew Gunn & Michael Mintrom (2017) ‘Evaluating the non-academic impact of academic research: design considerations’, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 39:1, 20-30, Article Evaluating the non-academic impact of academic research: des...

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