This section gives you more detailed and comprehensive resource collections, videos, documents, toolkits and guides organised into different topic areas. It’s for people who already know the basics and want to deepen their knowledge.
Extensive resource collections
Essential implementation YouTube channel (Improvement Academy, ARC Yorkshire and Humber)
A varied collection of videos and podcasts ranging from 7 mins to 1.5 hours on topics such as implementation research and evaluation methods, de-implementation, the importance of building relationships, rapid-cycle design and testing, case study examples and implementation success stories. Also interviews with implementation scientists such as Laura Damschroder and Allison Metz.
Implementation lectures 2020-2022 (ARC East of England)
A collection of 13 videos, each between 30mins and 1 hour in length presented by eminent names in the fields of implementation and knowledge mobilisation. Topics covered include: mindlines, knowledge to action framework, co-design, PARIHS framework, role of context, DEEP approach to knowledge mobilisation, normalisation process theory, arts-based knowledge mobilisation, implementation science in practical research, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on implementation.
Implementation outcome repository (ARC South London, in collaboration with ARC East of England and other partners)
A free online resource for researchers and healthcare professionals wishing to quantitatively measure implementation outcomes. The repository contains 55 outcome instruments developed and validated in healthcare settings, measuring outcomes relating to acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness, adoption, penetration and sustainability.
Knowledge mobilisation and pathways to impact
- An introduction into knowledge mobilisation for researchers (1 hour video, NIHR Academy)
- Planning knowledge mobilisation (Online written information and resource links, NIHR)
- Planning pathways to impact for researchers (33 min video, ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
- Guide to being a knowledge broker (28 page booklet, ARC East Midlands)
Engagement with practitioners and policy makers
- Engaging practitioner mindlines: a relational approach to mobilising research knowledge (1 hour video, NIHR Academy)
- The push of research vs the pull of practice – Ensuring our research works with practitioners (33 min video, Improvement Academy ARC Yorkshire and Humber)
- Engaging with policy makers: can your research influence policy? (1 hour video, NIHR Academy)
Engagement with patients and the public
- Mobilising research knowledge with members of the public: the challenges and opportunities (54 min video, NIHR)
- Co-production in implementation workshop (2 hour video including short presentations and feedback and reflections from public contributors involved in co-production projects, ARC West)
- Engaging people and communities in implementation (54 min video, ARC East of England)
- Collection of resources to support public involvement in research (Online or 8 page printable pdf resource list, ARC South London)
- How to involve the public in knowledge mobilisation (Comprehensive online information with links to evidence and further resources, NIHR Evidence Collection)
Health inequalities and knowledge mobilisation
- Health inequalities assessment toolkit (HIAT) – Dissemination and knowledge exchange (Online toolkit, ARC North West Coast)
Implementation science: Research, methods and theory
- Implementation science training modules (4 booklets including interactive resources and templates, ARC East Midlands)
- Implementation science research development (ImpRes) tool (Printable 57 page document, Kings Health Partners / ARC South London)
- Qualitative methods in implementation research (1 hour 45 min video – 1hr presentation, 45mins discussion, ARC North Thames)
- Reporting guidelines for implementation studies (Printable 5 page document, ARC South London)
- Improvement science snapshot – Normalisation process theory (NPT) in general (6 min video, ARC Yorkshire and Humber and ARC North East and North Cumbria)
- Using normalisation process theory to assess and inform implementation (Systematic review paper, ARC Northwest London)
- Introduction to theory of change (4 video presentations, 9-16 mins each, and links to further resources, ARC West)
Guides and approaches to implementation practice
- Implementation-art gallery – A guide to the community of practice approach (Videos and written resources displayed in a virtual art gallery, plus a downloadable 28 page booklet and workbook, ARC East of England)
- Implementation resources storeroom (Online information and reference lists as a supplement to the implementation-art gallery, ARC East of England)
- Implementing change – Practical know how (1 hour 6 min video, ARC East Midlands)
- Web-based implementation toolkit (Online written information and case examples, ARC Wessex)
- Guide to implementing change (40 page booklet, ARC East Midlands)
- Innovation and implementation in social care (1 hour 16 min video, ARC North Thames)
- Tales of art and craft in implementation (46 min video, ARC Kent Surrey Sussex)