Research Ethics & Governance

The November issue of the Blueprint, the regular Paradigm Project update from AcademyHealth, features a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one Design Team’s challenge, a spotlight on a Learning Community member, and the project’s first published white paper about alternatives to peer review in the research funding process.

The advancement of the health services research enterprise depends heavily on how research funding is allocated. As the field seeks to bolster its relevance for policy and practice, it is instructive to examine the benefits and challenges of peer review and its alternatives as tools in deciding what research to fund.

In the last post of a six-part series on engagement science, authors provide four recommendations for the future of the field.

The fifth of a six-part series on engagement science, this post describes three areas of continued work and study that can help to ensure the successful and sustainable maturation of engagement practice.

In the fourth of a six-part series on engagement science, authors highlight how this growing field has already supported considerable scholarship with implications for formalizing engagement activities.

The third of a six-part series on engagement science, this post describes the environmental and policy contexts that have shaped the emergence of this field.

In the second of a six-part series on engagement science, authors explore the landscape of engaged research and the evolution of a new field – dedicated to the study of engagement practice.

In this first of a six-part series that explores evidence-based engagement in health research, a group of researchers traces the emergence of engagement science.