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Challenges to embedding evidence
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Resistance to change
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Resources – funding staff capacity
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Judging priorities
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Appreciation of ‘worlds’ building new histories
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Time and reward
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Research conflicts with national objectives/priorities
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Bureaucracy vs. flexibility (timeliness)
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Time pressures
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Messages for different audiences
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Making it relevant
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Credibility
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Flexibility
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Getting to the right people – hierarchies and cascading knowledge
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Sustainable communication
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Freedom to be creative
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Stigma against failure/change
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Momentum of existing services
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Convince elected members
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Providers don’t want to hear a service isn’t working
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Communication
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Tailoring the research message
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Ownership
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Deliberative outputs as evidence
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Career currencies differ – third sector, government, academic
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Remember to some ‘users’ negative views of research – e.g. oppressive
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Conflicting incentives between research and division maker worlds
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Combining research and experiential evidence
