The Knowledge Mobilisation and Implementation for Impact workstream at ARC East of England ensures high‑quality research reaches the people, services and systems that need it, improving health and wellbeing across the region and generating approaches that can be scaled across the UK.
Knowledge Mobilisation is the process of ensuring that the right knowledge, from research, experience, and practice, is available, accessible, and used effectively by the right people to improve health and social care outcomes. It also involves translating and integrating evidence into practice, facilitating communication between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, whilst adapting knowledge to meet local contexts and needs.
Implementation does not happen by chance and at times of system pressures, implementation science and a considered approach to implementation activities creates opportunities to maximise the impact from applied research.
AR East of England’s Knowledge Mobilisation and Implementation for Impact co leads are Dr Danielle Tucker and Dr Sarah Robinson. Both are in boundary spanning roles and have extensive networks and expertise to support applied research gain impact.
Strengthening how our research creates real-world impact
ARC East of England's Knowledge Mobilisation and Implementation for Impact workstream aims to:
Strengthen how research is shared and used across health and care
We help ensure ARC East of England research is accessible, meaningful and ready to be applied in practice. Through early engagement, tailored support and strong national and regional links, we make it easier for research teams and partners to translate evidence into real‑world improvements.
Build a connected learning community across the region
We bring together researchers, practitioners, commissioners, service users and system leaders to share insight, challenge thinking and identify opportunities for impact. This Learning Community supports review, reflection and collaboration across all ARC themes.
Provide hands‑on support for knowledge mobilisation and implementation within each theme
Our team of Impact Champions work with themes and project teams to co‑develop KM plans, identify routes to implementation, support scale‑up opportunities and capture evidence of impact. Theme Impact Champions act as local leads for embedding knowledge mobilisation principles within projects. We have Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows who are embedded within systems to support research teams hearing about system priorities for applied research and to support embedding applied research findings.
Embed knowledge mobilisation and implementation across ARC strategies, governance and programmes
We ensure that knowledge mobilisation and implementation strategies informs the ARC East of England. This includes leading the knowledge mobilisation and implementation strategy, contributing to Research Capacity Development and fellowship programmes, and working with a Steering Group of regional and national experts.
Capture and communicate the impact of ARC research
We support researchers and partners to collect robust evidence of change, develop case studies, gather stakeholder feedback and showcase how ARC research influences services, policy and outcomes. This strengthens our contribution to NIHR requirements and future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions.
