TRIN Project :: Communication and Knowledge Exchange

Project 7 - Communication and Knowledge Exchange

This project has roles pertinent to the internal communications of the Network as well as to developing and growing the network beyond TRIN. In addition, a key principle is for knowledge brokers to facilitate researcher collaborations with key user communities to develop suitable taxonomic products and services, enhancing opportunities for broad adoption and application in environmental management and decision-making.

Challenges

The goal of this project is to enhance awareness, and to improve uptake and application of the taxonomic research.

Seeking solutions

Knowledge brokers are forming a responsive interface between the details of individual TRIN taxonomic research projects and the specific needs of user communities by providing a framework for effective communications:

ensuring a broad range of user communities are identified, scoped and considered
eliciting user community needs and priorities, and impediments to adoption of research outputs
improving researcher understanding of user community needs and interests
engaging user communities and researchers in collaborative development of taxonomic products
facilitating promotion, awareness and adoption of taxonomic results, outputs and products
involving user communities in evaluation and feedback on taxonomic products.

Benefits

Through interactive engagement, research information is made relevant, available and accessible to stakeholders for use in practice, planning and policy making:

Researchers understand user community needs and interests.
User communities learn about and have input into the development of taxonomic products.

Project progress

Jan 2010	7.2: Knowledge Exchange Product testing workshops commence in February 2010 in locations around the country.
Feb 2009	7.2: Knowledge Exchange The analysis of responses to the questionnaire Biodiversity Information: we want to know what you think is revealing some interesting results. We are planning focus group discussions to explore in more detail responses to the questionnaire and we look forward to your input to expand our understanding of the improvements that can be made to taxonomy products.
Nov 2008	7.2: Knowledge Exchange The questionnaire Biodiversity Information: we want to know what you think has closed. Thankyou to everyone who participated; we received around 850 completed questionnaires and are now analysing the results to inform the next phase of the project.
Oct 2008	7.2: Knowledge Exchange You are invited to complete a questionnaire on your experiences using taxonomy products. It contains 19 questions and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

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