The Architecture of the Cornell Knowledge Broker

A wider use of renewable energy is emerging as a viable solution to meet the increasing demand for global energy while contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, current literature on renewable energy, particularly on wind power, highlights the social barriers and public opposition to renewable energy investment. One solution to overcome the public opposition, which is recommended by scholars, is to deploy a collaborative approach. Relatively little research has specifically focused on the role of effective communication and the use of a knowledge-broker in collaborative decision-making. This study attempts to fill this gap through the proposition of a participatory framework that highlights the role of the knowledge-broker in a wind project decision-making process. In this paper, five illustrative wind projects in Ontario are used to highlight the current situation with public participation and to address how the proposed framework could have improved the process. Based on the recommended collaborative framework, perception must shift from the dominant view of the public as “a risk to be managed” towards “a resource that can be tapped”. The developers need to improve sharing what they know and foster co-learning around questions and concerns.

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The role of a remote knowledge broker from an academic setting using an adaptive approach to implement evidence-based practice in primary care settings: A case study of integrating mood management interventions for treatment seeking tobacco users.

10.21203/rs.2.21301/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nadia Minian ◽

Sheleza Ahad ◽

Laurie Zawertailo ◽

Arun Ravindran ◽

Claire de Oliveira ◽

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Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Family Health ◽

Practice Change ◽

Knowledge Broker ◽

Local Context ◽

Knowledge Brokering ◽

Mood Management ◽

Management Interventions

Abstract Background: Knowledge brokering is an emerging knowledge translation strategy used within healthcare to bridge the gap between evidence and practice. Reported studies indicate that the day-to-day role of a knowledge broker often involves in-person communication with frontline workers and decision makers. However, travelling to primary care sites can be cost- and resource-intensive and thus not feasible. In this paper, we describe the role and experience of a remote knowledge broker (rKB) working in an academic health sciences centre, delivering tailored one-on-one support to end-users using phone and email communications. Methods: A rKB was hired to support (n = 62) English-speaking Family Health Teams (FHTs) across Ontario with implementing mood management interventions as part of an existing smoking cessation program, the Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients (STOP) program. We describe the eight categories of tasks performed by the rKB over a 12-month period, as well as their experience communicating via technology to develop relationships with healthcare providers (HCPs). Results: Sixty-one of the 62 FHTs (n = 73 HCPs) were provided rKB services. The total number of successful phone and email communications with the rKB ranged from 3-98 interactions over 12 months. Common barriers to implementation reported by FHTs were associated with the Inner and Outer Setting domains of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and included lack of time, resources, and patient engagement. Conclusions: The role of the rKB involved building relationships with HCPs, identifying and helping to problem solve barriers, and building capacity in the field. Similar to traditional knowledge brokering, this analysis shows that developing a meaningful relationship between a remotely situated KB and HCPs could take anywhere between 1-6 months. Using implementation frameworks such as CFIR can help the rKB identify barriers and be ready to address them. In addition, hiring a rKB with previous engagements and knowledge of the local context may facilitate clinical practice change. Our future work will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of rKBs to inform its potential to be scaled up.

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Enabling visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role in linking research with clinical practice: A participatory design research in the Dutch nursing-home sector

10.21203/rs.3.rs-113355/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Margot Barry ◽

Wietske Kuijer ◽

Anke Persoon ◽

Loek Nieuwenhuis ◽

Nynke Scherpbier

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Performance Appraisal ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Design Research ◽

Clinical Work ◽

Role Expectations ◽

Knowledge Broker ◽

Academic Network ◽

Knowledge Intensive ◽

Definition Of

Abstract Background: Twelve clinician-scientists were employed in a Dutch academic network, which is a collaboration between fifteen nursing-homes and an academic medical research institute. The clinician-scientists were tasked with linking research and clinical practice by catalysing both care-informed research and evidence-informed implementation initiatives. The clinician-scientists and their manager experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists, a difficulty also reported in literature. They found no tools and methods suitable for make their knowledge broker role visible. Clarifying role expectations and accountability for funding these knowledge broker positions was difficult. They aimed to design a theory-informed performance appraisal tool that allowed clinician-scientists to explicate and develop their knowledge broker role in collaboration with management.Methods: A participatory design research was conducted over a 21 month period with a design group consisting of an external independent researcher, clinician-scientists and their managers from within the academic network. Results: A tool (the SP-tool) was developed in MS Excel. This allowed clinician-scientists to log their knowledge broker activities as distinct from their clinical work and research related activities. The tool contributed to their ability to make their knowledge broker role visible to themselves and their stakeholders. The theoretic contribution of the design research is a conceptual model of professionalisation of the clinician scientists knowledge broker role. This model presents the relationship between work visibility and the clarification of functions of the clinician-scientist’s knowledge broker role. In the professionalisation of knowledge-intensive work, visibility contributes to the definition of CS broker functions, which is an element necessary for the professionalisation of an occupation.Conclusions: The CSs knowledge broker role is a knowledge-intensive role and work-tasks associated with this role are not automatically visible. The SP-tool contributes to creating work visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role. This in turn could contribute to the professionalisation of this role, which is not well described in literature at the day-to-day professional level.

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The computer as knowledge broker

Knowledge machines ◽

10.4324/9781315845432-7 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 128-159

Author(s):

Denise E. Murray

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Broker

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Knowledge Brokers in Overlapping Online Communities of Practice

Leadership in the Digital Enterprise - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-958-8.ch006 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 77-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jocelyn Cranefield ◽

Pak Yoong

Keyword(s):

Communities Of Practice ◽

Online Communities ◽

Online Community ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Knowledge Broker ◽

System Level ◽

New Ideas ◽

Knowledge Brokers ◽

Online Communities Of Practice ◽

Professional Learners

This chapter argues that leaders need to better understand the roles played by informal knowledge brokers in connecting overlapping online communities of practice (CoPs). It illustrates how distributed individuals playing a key knowledge broker role – the Connector-leader – helped to drive transformative professional change. The research context was a professional development programme for New Zealand schools that promoted a new, student-centric teaching approach. The research project explored how online CoPs facilitate professional knowledge transfer, focusing on how new knowledge is embedded in interpretive frameworks and practices. Connector-leaders spanned boundaries in the online community realm and had a strong online presence. As professional learners, they were strongly outward facing, identifying primarily as members of a distributed online CoP. As leaders, they were inward facing, focusing largely on the knowledge needs of local organisations and CoPs. This study extends previous research into the boundary spanner and knowledge broker, introduces new ideas about the nature of boundaries in CoPs, and promotes a system-level view of knowledge flows, emphasising the importance of both visible and invisible dimensions of online knowledge brokering.

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