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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for scoping review

From: Engaged scholarship and public policy decision-making: a scoping review

 

Inclusion

Exclusion

General criteria

Publication time scan (2000–2017); English language; any study type and design (e.g. descriptive, experimental, qualitative, quantitative)

Publication time scan (before 2000); not English language

Context

Includes researchers and individuals working in public policy in any level of government (local/municipal, provincial/state, federal/national) across low-, middle- and high-income countries and descriptions of their environments (socio-cultural, political, economic); may also include other stakeholders (e.g. community, providers/practitioners, patients/public)

Does not involve researchers or individuals working in government (e.g. community, organisational, administrative or clinical); no description of environments

Intervention

(in this study meaning the engaged scholarship partnership)

Description of experiences working together toward the same end goal; focused on collaborative coproduction and use of knowledge (e.g. involvement in teams, developing research/policy questions, designing and conducting methods, disseminating results); enduring collaboration that goes beyond one project/meeting

Researchers working independent of decision-makers and vice versa; only translating information to public policy decision-makers, focusing only on uptake of evidence or policy relevance; a network without an enduring mutual purpose; an isolated meeting or project without a long-term collaboration; focus on participatory policy-making rather than on using research to inform policy; focus on a network without information about the specific use of research to inform policy-making

Actions

Clear and concrete examples of processes/steps that outline what was done to engage and support collaborations

Not a direct account of an experience of engaged scholarship (no or vague details on the process of how it was implemented such as a commentary or descriptive paper on the topic of engaged scholarship)

Outcomes

Coproduced knowledge will inform public policy

Not informing public policy