Table 7 Knowledge broker roles
From: Deconstructing knowledge brokering for commissioned rapid reviews: an observational study
Facilitative role | Diagnostic role | Interpretative role | Deliberative role |
|---|---|---|---|
• Establishing and maintaining trust and creating an open dialogue • Facilitating understanding across social and cultural boundaries • Eliciting disclosure of sensitive information and gaining greater specificity | • Clarifying research needs for a specific policy process • Identifying contextual factors that may influence research use • Refining research questions and scope to reflect purpose and context | • Moving between and aligning research and policy perspectives • Communicating in the language and conventions of both policy and research domains • Conveying what is meant and intended in one domain so it can be understood and enacted in the other | • Weighing up research options in terms of their contribution to a policy objective • Surfacing inconsistencies or conflicting viewpoints for resolution • Fostering judgements that enable action and decision-making going forward |