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.
Therefore researchers involved in communicating research should be supported in this work.
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.
Different media for communicating research are popular in different research communities, so on Friday 24 February, we will bring together a diverse panel of pioneers, innovators and some old hands at research communications to explore the how to's of research communication in a more networked world.
Investment in communicating research results and building partnerships with communities and trial participants has been essential for building trust.
Links, such as networks or media, trusted "dissemination agents" or "translators", between researchers and policymakers are central in communicating research results [ 17], both at the national and international level.
Malawi has a relatively new platform that brings together policy-makers, subject experts and researchers and that is designed for translating, synthesizing and communicating research to inform health policy and practice.
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.
I have spoken to several academics who have had negative experiences in communicating research findings to government advisers.
When the former pushes for publication in the high impact journals this can often be at odds with ways of communicating research which better serve the latter.
