Stakeholder Engagement in EQUIPT for Impact (SEE-IMPACT)

这项研究的目的是更好地了解潜在用户或利益攸关方（如决策者）参与研究过程可能会增加研究影响的方式。人们还希望这项研究可以提高将创新从一个国家转移到另一个国家的能力，并确定项目最终产生影响的早期迹象。该研究将使用一系列方法，包括访谈、调查、观察和文件审查，以详细了解利益攸关方的参与如何作为促进影响的机制。关于利益相关者参与的初步文献综述将用于验证一组用于测试的提议。例如，利益相关者参与的强度、参与的时间以及参与的利益相关者的性质是否会产生影响？这项研究将遵循欧盟委员会资助的一个200万欧元的项目，称为欧洲量化烟草保护投资效用研究（ESTT），为期三年（该项目的生命周期）。研究人员将观察所有利益相关者的活动组织的BMT项目，采访利益相关者，进行利益相关者调查和审查相关文件。该研究将主要在英国和其他四个欧洲国家（德国、匈牙利、西班牙、荷兰）进行，因此将有机会比较不同背景下的利益相关者参与情况。该项目将详细说明支持（或反驳）初步建议的证据，并将开始制定一套指标，用于规划和评估利益攸关方的参与。该团队在研究影响评估领域拥有专业知识，团队成员过去有成功合作的经验。一个国际虚拟咨询小组将支持该项目。该小组将通过咨询小组和对卫生领域和更广泛的研究组织和评估问题感兴趣的现有同事网络，项目网页和传播活动，分享他们的调查结果。希望这些发现将对公共和慈善部门的各种医学研究资助者有用，他们越来越关心让不同群体的潜在用户参与他们的研究，以便研究满足他们的需求。

The aim of the study is to understand better the ways in which the engagement of potential users, or stakeholders, (such as policy makers) in the processes of a research study might increase the impact of research. It is also hoped the study might increase the ability to transfer innovations from one country to another, and to identify early signs that a project will eventually make an impact. The study will use a range of methods including interviews, surveys, observations and reviews of documents to develop a detailed understanding of how stakeholder engagement might work as a mechanism for promoting impact. An initial literature review on stakeholder engagement will be used to distil a set of propositions for testing. For example, does the intensity of stakeholder engagement, the timing of their involvement, and the nature of the stakeholders who get involved make a difference? The study will follow a 2 million Euro European Commission funded project called European-study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in Protection from Tobacco (EQUIPT) for three years (the life of the project). The researchers will observe all the stakeholder events organised by the EQUIPT project, interview stakeholders, conduct stakeholder surveys and review relevant documents. The study will mainly be conducted in the UK and four other European countries (Germany, Hungary, Spain, The Netherlands) so there will be opportunities to compare stakeholder involvement in different contexts. The project will produce a detailed account of the evidence supporting (or refuting) the initial propositions and will begin to develop a set of indicators for use in the planning and assessment of stakeholder engagement. The team have expertise in the field of research impact assessment and members of the team have experience of working together successfully in past. An international virtual advisory group will support the project. The team will share their findings through the advisory group and existing networks of colleagues interested in issues to do with the organisation and evaluation of research, in the health field and more widely, project web pages, and dissemination events. It is hoped that the findings will be of use to a wide range of medical research funders, in the public and charitable sectors, who are increasingly concerned to engage different groups of potential users in their research so that the research meets their needs.