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This is my flagship three-day training course for anyone interested in learning about implementation science and implementation research. It provides a comprehensive overview, highlighting the various limitations and complexities involved in conducting this type of research. The course also aims to bolster participants' ability to connect with and support the needs of practice, address complexity, and have an impact while offering guidance on participants' own projects or study designs. It can be tailored to your specific needs.
About the course
Implementation is increasingly being put at the forefront of research funding requirements. It can be pretty confusing and stressful when you have a short amount of time to put together an implementation research proposal, particularly when you have little implementation science experience. Hundreds of theories, models and frameworks, thousands of published papers, and a lack of practical and accessible guidance can add to this confusion.
As host of the Essential Implementation Podcast, and as a full-time implementation specialist supporting multiple stakeholders and institutions around the world with their implementation research, I have developed an online, live, three day course design to bolster implementation research knowledge and transform implementation research skills.
How is this course different?
My extensive experience has taught me that good implementation research support works best when trainees have time to ask questions and problem-solve their projects or ideas. It’s also important that I can build a relationship with you to make sure I am delivering a course that fits your needs.
Implementation research training is rare but most of it tends to involve a large number of attendees who are subjected to an excessive amount of information, lectures and references. There isn’t time for group discussion or one-to-one advice. There isn’t time to truly digest what is being taught, each part is not always linked together well, and attendees do not leave feeling like they have what they need.
I therefore never teach more than ten trainees at once so that I can make sure you have the opportunity and time to ask any questions and so we can focus on making sure you get what you need from the course. A free workbook is included and there is plenty of time for us to tackle whatever implementation research challenge you are facing whether that is writing an implementation research grant, designing a PhD, or carrying out a fully-fledged implementation research programme.
Course Aims
1. Get a comprehensive overview of implementation science and implementation research
2. Understand the limitations of traditional implementation science and research
3. Learn a more realistic and pragmatic approach to implementation research
4. Understand how to recognise and meet the needs of practice
5. Understand how practice can bolster the utility of our implementation findings
6. Learn to apply key implementation research essentials
7. Master implementation research approaches that support practice
Course content
Session 1: Implementation - why it matters and how implementation science can help
Session 2: Why understanding how to achieve adoption, integration and impact has been so difficult
Session 3: Understanding the dynamic relationships between interventions, contexts and stakeholders
Session 4: Integrating ‘within system learning’ into our research and what to do when this is not possible
Session 5: Relational implementation
Session 6: Real-world case studies and applying implementation research essentials
Timings
Session 1&2 – Monday 16th June 09:30-13:00 BST
Session 3&4 – Tuesday 17th June 09:30-13:00 BST
Session 5&6 – Wednesday 18th June 09:30-13:00 BST
You will receive an email after registering including calendar invites with zoom links. You will also receive the course workbook a week before the course starts.
I am delivering this course in partnership with the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration. To register please visit https://arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/implementation-training/