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Minding the gap: The importance of active facilitation in moving boundary objects from in-theory to in-use as a tool for knowledge mobilisation by Shaima M. Hassan; Lucy Melville-Richards; Adele Ring; Jane Cloke; Sandra Smith; Pooja Saini; Mark Goodall; Ana Porroche-Escudero; Jennie Popay; Mark Gabbay is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

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The Health Inequalities Assessment Toolkit (HIAT) was developed to support those involved in health research to integrate a focus on health inequalities. Our study focuses on bringing together the concepts of boundary objects (BO) and brokers-as-bricoleurs to explain the implementation of the HIAT within a research capacity building programme. Exploring the extent to which (i) the HIAT operated as a BO and (ii) the ideal conditions to nurture and enhance its effectiveness during knowledge mobilisation. We employed a qualitative approach to analyse: semi-structured focus groups and telephone interviews; secondary data from an evaluation of the wider research programme within which the capacity building was situated. Data was thematically analysed incorporating the properties of a BO: meaningfulness, convergence, resonance and authenticity. Four main themes identified: (1) Generating convergence through creating a focus (2) Reconciling differences to create a common language (3) Workshop facilitators: boundary brokers-as-bricoleurs, (4) Thoughts into action. The HIAT operated as a BO, enabling individuals across the different project teams to galvanise around the issue of health ineq

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Author

Shaima M. Hassan; Lucy Melville-Richards; Adele Ring; Jane Cloke; Sandra Smith; Pooja Saini; Mark Goodall; Ana Porroche-Escudero; Jennie Popay; Mark Gabbay

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)