Gavin Bennett (2)

I read this book for work. I must say: it stands out as unique among the books written on knowledge translation that I have read so far. Being funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre, there's a hum of multicultural interest constantly in the background. This book was not simply written for North American researchers thinking about North American problems -- it was intended for anyone in the world working on getting past the hurdle of 'just knowing the evidence' to actually implementing policy and influencing society. The broad audience drives the editors to cut away a lot of superfluous content and aim for general, universal concepts and models. This makes the KT Toolkit a relatively very easy read in the field, and a terrific point of introduction to the discipline.… (más)