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Workshop

Methods for Disseminating and Translating Research to Action Across the Lifespan Workshop

Research/Research Methods, Intervention, Aging and Life Course

Organizer(s)

• JS

  Jean Schensul

  Senior Scientist
  Institute for Community Research
• NW

  Narelle Warren

  Senior Lecturer
  Monash University

Presenter(s)

• JS

  Jean Schensul

  Senior Scientist
  Institute for Community Research
• NW

  Narelle Warren

  Senior Lecturer
  Monash University
• ML

  Margaret LeCompte

  professor emerita
  University of Colorado-Boulder
• AW

  Andrea Whittaker

  ARC Future Fellow
  Monash University
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  Jason Danely

  Senior Lecturer
  Oxford Brookes University
• SS

  Stephen Schensul

  Prof
  University of Connecticut School of Medicine

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Pricing (USD): $20/$40 (student/professional)
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This workshop is designed for anthropologists and other social scientists wishing to develop frameworks, strategies and concrete plans for disseminating their work to multiple audiences and to develop interventions with specific groups with whom they have carried out research. Ethical practices of social science professions call for sharing research results with study populations, service providers, and policymakers and when possible, the development of interventions with the study population that address issues arising during the research. Neither dissemination of research results to multiple audiences nor approaches to intervention development with local communities is typically taught in anthropology graduate training. These components of dissemination and intervention are missing and are very much needed in the growing field of life-course studies and aging.

The workshop will be organized into two sections: a) dissemination planning, and b) research-based intervention approaches. An international group of experienced facilitators will use a combination of brief lectures and individual and small group activities to enable participants to create their own dissemination and/or intervention plans based on their own settings, materials, and research results. Facilitators will use case examples across the lifespan as illustrations. Dissemination plans will include framing messages based on research results to target audiences including the study community as well as other users. Intervention development will include partnership creation, an intervention problem and model, analysis of intervention resources and approaches, and links to broader theory. All participants will examine the ethical considerations of their work.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Work collaboratively to develop research utilization approaches.
• Develop a dissemination plan and instructional approach to convey research results and implications to multiple audiences.
• Develop intervention models, multilevel approaches to change, and an intervention strategy.