Creating and Capitalizing on Opportunities to Reduce Poverty: The Process and Power of Integrated Knowledge Translation

• Author / Creator

  Pullishy, Lesley A

• This thesis describes the experiences of partners involved in integrated knowledge translation (iKT)—a poorly understood process wherein partners from diverse professional spheres (e.g. community, government, and academia) work together to ensure research generated is relevant for the context of its intended application. The partnership under study—Putting Research to Work—is centered on the issue of family poverty in Edmonton, Alberta. Through an iterative and inductive process of qualitative description using previously generated data, I present partners experiences on how to offset structural and political barriers, and create and capitalize on opportunities to use research in government. Two papers (Chapter IV and V) capture these findings. In the discussion and conclusion (Chapter VI), I delineate why and how these findings pose relevance to nursing.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Media
  • Election cycles
  • Knowledge translation
  • Low-income
  • Policy action
  • Public health
  • Qualitative description
  • Nursing
  • Health equity
  • Population health
  • Health promotion
  • Partnership
  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Content analysis
  • Evidence-informed policy making
  • Poverty
  • Qualitative
  • Social determinants of health

• Graduation date

  Spring 2016

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Nursing

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R38W38C91

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.