ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how one can best use excellent research findings and creative practice to enable meaningful impact in society. In strengthening the agenda to ensure research findings have practice impact, demands are increasing on researchers in professional disciplines for more engaged research, including community–university partnerships and stakeholder–researcher collaborations. Participatory research partnerships ‘explicitly seek to bring together groups of people who can combine their perspectives, resources, skills and ideas to create solutions to community problems’. The chapter focuses on the ways excellent research findings and creative practice can be combined to enable meaningful impact in society and the contextual complexities that must be balanced in the process. It was made clear that translation of knowledge to practice is not possible without partnerships. Future initiatives to link research findings to practice should go beyond this though, considering both effective resources to assist stakeholders with dissemination processes and evaluating the effectiveness of dissemination mechanisms.
