A multifaceted approach to enabling research impact in child health

Join Ken to hear about the award-winning organizational approach to enabling research impact at the Melbourne Children’s campus.*

Achieving research impact is central to improving children's health and wellbeing. But much health research fails to influence practice or policy, or can take up to seventeen years to do so. The funding landscape has also changed, with researchers increasingly required to plan for, assess and articulate their impact.

This webinar will explore the program of organisational change that responded to these impact challenges.

Ken will describe a multifaceted approach to understanding impact needs within context, and developing and piloting evidence-informed enabling strategies and support. This work has involved establishing networks, providing training and resources, partnering with teams, showcasing good practice, and embedding a culture of learning throughout.

The session will be interactive with discussion encouraged and a Q&A session to follow.

• Date: Monday 19 April
• Time: 12.30 – 13:30 NZST

Ken Knight – Program Lead, Knowledge Translation & Impact at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), in Melbourne, Australia.

Ken has over a decade of experience managing knowledge translation (KT), engagement and research impact programs in health and government. He is passionate about partnering with diverse stakeholders to enable greater impact, and facilitating organizational models of impact support. Ken leads a multifaceted program to accelerate the application of knowledge and enhance the impact of research across MCRI and The Royal Children’s Hospital, and is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at The University of Melbourne. He teaches KT and implementation at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

*Melbourne Children’s brings together four organisations: The Royal Children’s Hospital, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the University of Melbourne’s Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation at a single campus in Melbourne, Australia. Our campus purpose is to advance child and adolescent health through prevention, early intervention and health promotion, together with the highest quality clinical care, research, education and training.