Reader, Business School
Biography
Vicky is a Reader in Management in the Department of Management and Director of Impact and Innovation for the University of St Andrews Business School. Her area of research is ‘knowledge mobilisation’ – focusing on the role of academic and other forms of knowledge in policy and practice and how professionals create and share knowledge with one another. Her research portfolio includes work on knowledge brokering in a range of settings and she has undertaken research on parliamentary research services, embedded researchers, research-policy partnerships, and interprofessional working. Vicky has a passion for bringing people working in knowledge mobilisation together and supporting people to make a difference with research. She leads the RURU Network (Researching and Understanding Research Use) and chairs the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum, an annual event for knowledge mobilisation researchers and practitioners.
Selected publications
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives, Ward, V., Davies, H. T. O., Reid, B., Tooman, T. R. & Marshall, M., Nov 2021, In: Evidence & Policy. 17, 4, p. 593-614
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives, Ward, V., Tooman, T. R., Reid, B., Davies, H., O’Brien, B., Mear, L. & Marshall, M., Nov 2021, In: Evidence & Policy. 17, 4, p. 755-769
Naturopaths’ mobilisation of knowledge and information in clinical practice: an international cross-sectional survey, Steel, A., Leach, M., Brosnan, C., Ward, V. & Lloyd, I., 6 Aug 2021, In: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. 21, 12
Using frameworks and models to support knowledge mobilization, Ward, V., 2019, The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education. Malin, J. & Brown, C. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 168-181
