Knowledge Transfer and Exchange

search, review for relevance, classifying and rating quality, and then synthesising and validating papers. Jones et al., 2009 Knowledge, Policy and Power Six dimensions of the knowledge– development policy interface To investigate how various types of knowledge are used across contexts, sectors and with different actors – and thus what can be deduced about the knowledge translation process. Produced by the same institution as Court and Young (2003). Discussion paper drawing on the literature and case studies. Ottoson, 2009 Knowledge-for-Action Theories in Evaluation: Knowledge Utilization, Diffusion, Implementation, Transfer, and Translation To summarise and compare the predominant theories of knowledge-for-action, and consider how they can be effectively evaluated. Literature review Contandriopoulos et al., 2010 Organizations and Policy Arenas: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Literature To examine policy making at the organisational and collective level, building on the prior work by Mitton et al. (2007) Literature review: A snowballing method was used, utilising references from key papers in the field – as it was felt that a systematic approach would generate too many papers for inclusion. This paper considered the political science literature, which had previously remained autonomous to the KTE literature – uniting the two aspects.