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Excellent thought! I haven't started thinking about it at all yet - but what an interesting way to approach it. What I'm really heading towards is working out whether there is anything about the particular context(s) our symposium is addressing that will affect evidence uptake, primarily by governments (as distinct from, for example, uptake of evidence by health practitioners). Certainly 'nature of evidence' may be one of the factors that affects that. Thanks Justin! Thanks also to all those who have already forwarded materials or references - anyone who hasn't had a chance to yet but does have something, more will still be very welcome. Cheers Gill From: Jagosh, Justin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, 22 May 2015 12:34 PM To: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards; Gill Westhorp Subject: RE: Context, evidence and utilisation Gill such an interesting question - how does context affect the uptake of evidence? Have you thought about turning the question on its head (or perhaps on its side) as a way to flesh out your ideas? - how does the nature of evidence affect its uptake in new contexts? or How do the differing forms of evidence carry differing kinds of leverage in differing sorts of contexts? Justin Jagosh, Ph.D Senior Research Fellow Director, Centre for Advancement in Realist Evaluation and Synthesis (CARES) University of Liverpool, UK www.liv.ac.uk/cares <http://www.liv.ac.uk/cares> From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gill Westhorp Sent: May 21, 2015 5:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Context, evidence and utilisation Hello everyone I'm about to start work on a paper for a symposium later this year, in which a number of people will approach issues affecting the use of evidence for policy and programs from different perspectives. I want to think in particular about the ways in which (/mechanisms by which) context affects use of evidence. I know that a number of people have done realist work in implementation science and related areas and am wondering whether people have articles, reports, or references that they think might be of value as I embark on this journey? I'm particularly interested in realist work of course - but not exclusively so. Any help would be most gratefully accepted. Best wishes to all Gill