Our 2023 online Forum included a wide range of content across different fields of practice and practitioners! An outline of our programme is shown below. A more detailed version can be viewed and downloaded by clicking the image on the right

Monday 24th April  

11.30-14:00 BST Welcome to the Forum & Keynote Speaker

15:30 BST Informal coffee meetup

Tuesday 25th April

12:00-14:00 BST Interactive posters

Posters will be available to view and comment on online until 11:00. Questions and comments added to the posters will form the basis of our live plenary session at 12:00.

  • The use of social media for disseminating research evidence with health and social care practitioners
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion strategies for academic-policy engagement 
  • Using Twitter to mobilise knowledge for first contact physiotherapists
  • Evaluating how commissioners mobilise evidence to inform the planning, purchasing, and monitoring of health services
  • Optimising the process of knowledge mobilisation in communities of practice
  • Collaborative stakeholder mapping through knowledge exchange and mobilisation 
  • Building an equity-centered professional learning program for education knowledge brokers
  • An evaluation of the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) programme in Wales 
  • Evaluations of training programs to improve capacity in K*

Wednesday 26th April

12:00-12:55 and 13:05-14:00 BST Workshops

Each workshop will run twice giving an opportunity to attend two workshops.

  • Multidisciplinary mindlines
  • Engaging heads, hearts and hands: using creative methods for inclusive policy engagement
  • Using stories to reveal the politics of knowledge mobilisation in practice
  • Understanding and building communities of practice using action cards
  • Building trusting relationships to support implementation and evidence use

15:30 BST Informal coffee meetup

Thursday 27th April

12:00-14:00 BST Knowledge fayres

Knowledge fayres will last for 15 minutes and you will be able to attend 5 of the available fayres.

  • Changing our tune: can research be sung?
  • Centering equity in collaborative design of evidence-informed resources
  • User feedback, accessibility, and usability as part of developing research measures
  • Designing for impact: how system intermediaries can leverage storytelling in their work
  • The art of influence: mobilising evidence for policy change
  • Knowledge sharing: what do we mean and what do people think we mean by this term?
  • The implementation art gallery

Friday 28th April

12:00 -14:00 BST Keynote Speaker & Forum Farewell