Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care: Putting Mindlines to Work

The term ‘mindlines’ has become common currency in the world of research implementation and evidence-based practice. This book updates, develops and applies the mindlines model more widely. It sheds light on how we can realistically mobilise and transform research-based evidence into practice in context.

This illuminating book shows how the mindlines model can be put to work. It highlights how practitioners collectively share and internalise implicit, flexible ways of rapidly handling complex clinical situations. Drawing on research and reflective studies from practice, education, and guidelines-development across a wide range of international health and care settings, the authors unpack the general components of mindlines. They find practical ways to uncover, bring together and apply specific mindlines to improve practice; and to develop evidence-based healthcare policy, practice and education in ways that capitalise on the crucial role of mindlines. Closely edited by the originators of the mindlines model, this book brings together the work of a cohesive group of researchers and practitioners to showcase and develop its theory and consequences.

It is an essential read for all those interested in knowledge mobilisation, evidence-based practice, and research implementation both within healthcare and beyond.

John Gabbay is Professor Emeritus of Public Health and former Director of the Wessex Institute at the University of Southampton. He is also Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge and a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge. Until recently he was Implementation co-Lead at the NIHR East of England Applied Research Collaboration, UK.

Andrée le May is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Southampton. She is Editor-in-Chief for the NIHR’s Journals Library for the Health and Social Care Delivery Research, Public Health, Global Health, and Programme Grants for Applied Research journals. She is also co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Nursing and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge. Until recently she was Implementation co-Lead for the NIHR East of England Applied Research Collaboration.