Bridging the ‘know-do’ gap is not new but considerably greater attention is being focused on the issue as governments and research funders seek to demonstrate value for money and impact on policy and practice. Initiatives like the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship are therefore both timely and welcome. However, they conf...

Background: ‘Embedded research’ (co-locating researchers within non-academic organisations) is advocated as a way of developing more effective services through better creation and application knowledge. Aims objectives: The existing literature on embedded initiatives has largely been descriptive. There less in the analysis, for example, disaggregating components such schemes, unpacking underpin...

The ambition of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship initiative to modernise the health system is impressive. Embedded researchers who work between academia and nonacademic settings offer an opportunity to reframe the problem of evidence uptake as a product of a gap between those who produce knowledge and those who use it. As such, there has been an ...

Whole systems approaches are increasingly being advocated as a way of responding to complex public health priorities such obesity and physical inactivity. Due the adaptive nature systems, researchers embedded within host organisations (i.e., those which facilitate whole approach) work with key stakeholders illuminate understand mechanisms change develop culture continuous improvement. While pre...