Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes

JW Neal, S Posner, B Brutzman - Evidence & …, 2023 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Background: Brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners (BIBS) bridge research and
policy or practice, and can elevate the role of evidence in decision making. However, there …

How small is it? Comparing indices of small worldliness

ZP Neal - Network Science, 2017 - cambridge.org
Many studies have attempted to determine whether an observed network exhibits a so-
called “small-world structure.” Such determinations have often relied on a conceptual …

What types of brokerage bridge the research-practice gap? The case of public school educators

JW Neal, ZP Neal, KJ Mills, JA Lawlor, K McAlindon - Social Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
The presence of a research-practice gap is recognized across multiple fields including
education, psychology, and public health. In this paper, we examine which of five structural …

What makes research useful for public school educators?

JW Neal, ZP Neal, JA Lawlor, KJ Mills… - Administration and Policy …, 2018 - Springer
In this study, we explored the extent to which educators discuss and prioritize
Rogers'(Diffusion of innovations, The Free Press: New York, 1995) five attributes of …

Partnering to learn: A collaborative approach to research translation for educators and researchers

S MacMahon, J Leggett, A Carroll - Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The science of learning (SoL) has powerful contributions to make to both the production of
knowledge about learning and to the ways in which this knowledge can be successfully …

[HTML][HTML] Network analysis for social and community interventions

I Maya-Jariego, D Holgado - Psychosocial Intervention, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years social network analysis has been used for research and action in community
contexts. Specifically, the social network analysis has been used in program evaluation …

Learning how to learn—implementing self‐regulated learning evidence into practice in higher education: Illustrations from diverse disciplines

SJ MacMahon, A Carroll, A Osika… - Review of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The benefits of drawing upon evidence‐based practices in teaching and learning—such as
self‐regulated learning (SRL)—are well documented. However, effectively translating and …

Brokering research in science education policy implementation: the case of a professional association

M Hopkins, KE Wiley, WR Penuel… - Evidence & …, 2018 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Recent scholarship suggests that research use is an interactive, social phenomenon, and
that brokers play important roles in facilitating the exchange of research evidence. We add to …

Map** pathways to public understanding of climate science

CR Canon, DP Boyle… - Public Understanding of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate communication is a thriving research area spanning science, social science, and
humanities. The field has grown explosively in recent years, necessitating increased efforts …

Implementation capital: merging frameworks of implementation outcomes and social capital to support the use of evidence-based practices

JW Neal, ZP Neal - Implementation Science, 2019 - Springer
Background Although there is growing recognition that the implementation of evidence-
based practices is a social process, the conceptualization of social capital in implementation …