Seniors reported gains in conducting community-based research, communicating research findings to a scientific audience, and critically analyzing the quality of data generated in their own research.
APHRC implemented a number of initiatives to strengthen the capacity of journalists to accurately interpret and report SRHR research, as well as the capacity of researchers to communicate research in comprehensible ways.
Therefore researchers involved in communicating research should be supported in this work.
Reporting of these issues is weak due to lack of interest and capacity in accessing, interpreting and using evidence by journalists, as well as lack of capacity to communicate research findings effectively by researchers.
Besides the short in-house mini-workshops, APHRC funded several of its researchers to attend training courses on communicating research to policymakers organized by PRB, which usually cover components on effective communication of research through the mass media.
While evidence of the effectiveness of interventions may be increasing, workplace health researchers often struggle to effectively communicate research findings to workplace decision-makers.
Investment in communicating research results and building partnerships with communities and trial participants has been essential for building trust.
With the availability of video data, this norm for communicating research with its insistence on rich and detailed data, calls for the researcher to find new and innovative ways of working with and communicating the observed (Knoblauch 2009, 2012).
Communicating research findings to a non-scientific audience requires more comprehensive forms of communication, and might not be rewarded by the scientific community.
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