Earlier this year on the Higher Education Network, I introduced knowledge mobilisation as a university-based process that connects academic social sciences and humanities research to non-academic decision makers to inform decisions about public policy and professional practice, enhance social innovation and develop sustainable solutions to social, environmental, economic and cultural challenges.
Thus, in Priority-setting II, the work group comprised 65 participants including researchers, managers, academics, decision makers, and members of civil society from different regions of the country (Table 3).
The paper presents results of a European social platform project, SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050, which brought together academics, European decision makers, businesses and civil society in order to explore potential visions of sustainable lifestyles in 2050 and identify focus areas for future research.
Such a structure can create close ties between academics and decision makers.
In recent years efforts have been made to connect academics to decision makers in Iran.
Actors in academic research, education, decision makers in the government, politicians and independent experts must participate in the integrated foresight process to perform a participatory foresight process.
Questionnaires were developed to address the objectives of the All Our Babies Cohort Study and included input from academics, stakeholders and decision makers.
George's sanitation goals and other water-related topics attracted 2,500 participants to World Water Week in Stockholm where experts, decision makers, academics and journalists debated issues of vital importance to the planet.
Not only has their research established the link between human activities and global climate change, but they have also stepped out of their academic ivory tower to urge decision makers to address the risks it poses.
These discussions need to reach the decision makers in academic institutions.
In this paper, we describe our work collecting policy statements, expectations, and requirements from regulatory decision makers at academic cancer centers in the United States.
