Extension is the practice of transferring knowledge and skills to improve economic, social and environmental outcomes and create positive change. The current state of the agricultural extension sector in Australia reveals a complex landscape of challenges and opportunities. The findings in this report emphasise the need for a strategic and coordinated approach to bolster extension...

The strategy embeds collaboration between researchers, mental health practitioners and people with lived and living experiences in care settings to improve outcomes for consumers, carers, family, supporters and kin. It is comprised of four key elements: strategic goals, focus area, work and enabling pillars, and implementation principles.

This report explores how knowledge brokering works to cross institutional boundaries to connect research and practice and promote new approaches to evidence production and use. It looks at the wide-ranging work of knowledge brokers and their potential to support programs of public sector reform in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

This report shows how knowledge brokering can facilitate better research-practice collaboration and provide opportunities for enhancing public sector reform in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It analyses the function and practicalities of knowledge brokering, the conditions and practices that can support effective collaboration, and how to measure the relative benefits and impacts of different approaches.

This report provides practical ideas for investments to improve the quality and use of evidence in policy design, implementation, and evaluation. It highlights the opportunities and challenges ahead, as the demand for and supply of evidence continue to grow in a world with complex policy challenges.

This speech focuses on the importance of evidence-informed policymaking, which enhances the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public interventions. It argues that in a complex policy environment, a focus on evidence can provide a constructive path forward in policy disagreements and help build trust in government decisions.

This study reports on the elements of effective evidence centres, with the particular aim of informing the design of the future Disability Employment Centre of Excellence. It identifies five core, overlapping elements of centre design, providing an evidence base to inform decision-making.

Living evidence syntheses are continually updated, systematically appraised summaries of research evidence. These may include living systematic reviews, living evidence briefs or living evidence‐based guidelines. Australia has implemented living evidence for several key clinical concerns; however, the routine implementation of living evidence in health policy is nascent and knowledge gaps remain on how to best...

The objective of this study was to better understand what knowledge translation activities are effective and meaningful to Indigenous communities, and what is required to advance knowledge translation in health research with, for, and by Indigenous communities.

This report highlights how a two-way learning approach delivers social, environmental and economic outcomes, on top of improved education results, for remote Aboriginal students.

This study documents the outcomes of a dedicated Science Communication Community of Practice (CoP) for increasing knowledge translation and evidence uptake for preventive health interventions.

Though artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a greater part of our everyday lives, this discussion paper provides a timely opportunity to revisit what makes any system — be it an artificial or a natural one — intelligent in the first place.

This paper discusses a novel methodology that aimed to enhance opportunities for lay women from different walks of life to co‐produce research about health risks, without burdening them with problems they cannot solve.

The New Zealand Productivity Commission engaged FrankAdvice to prepare this report setting out potential features of a learning system. The Commission intends to use this work to inform their findings and recommendations in relation to a stronger public management learning system.

This article discusses the language that frames thought, which in turn produces knowledge, and is critical for regulators - especially when this knowledge informs their regulatory practices and regulatory interventions.

The NSW Health COVID-19 Research Program was established in April 2020 to contribute to minimising the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales (NSW). This paper describes the establishment and implementation of one element of the program, which is focused on the rapid creation of evidence to support urgent...

The Policy Development Research Model (PDRM) integrates the traditionally separate processes of evidence-building and policy development into one set of practices. This article describes how the PDRM enhances policy impact by improving two-way knowledge transfer between academic researchers and policy-makers and practitioners.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the experts in knowledge translation. Research, evaluation and communication – these actions have been part of their culture for countless generations. In this publication, the authors provide several examples of Indigenous knowledge translation in practice.

This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding, measuring, and encouraging research impact for academics. Although not alone in seeking to impact public policy with their research, academics are under-utilised creators of knowledge.

Well-designed evidence-based resources that reflect participant experiences and priorities are imperative for informed consumer health decision-making and to combat the pervasive health misinformation existing today. Qualitative research data can inform the development of such resources, but the process of reconciling qualitative research data with other sources of evidence through co-design processes is not well described...