ABOUT THE PROJECT

Innovative evidence-based interventions to improve health behaviour in various target groups are being developed at unprecedented rates. However, without effective implementation, the impact on people’s lives and society remains limited. Implementing evidence-based programs often fails due to problems with awareness, skills, access to knowledge and resources, misalignment with priorities, organizational structures and policies, and much more.
Our group aims to contribute to closing the gap between research and practice by studying methods for integrating and embedding evidence-based interventions and practices in real-world settings. Specifically, we conduct research into tailored implementation, system dynamics, scaling-up/out, and conceptual work related to causality and mechanisms of specific implementation strategies, as well as methodological issues in implementation research such as measurement instruments, process evaluations, and developing logic models.

There are many interesting topics to explore. Initially, we are looking for someone who is interested in exploring impact systems, contributing to conceptualizing equity in implementation research, and addressing issues related to defining implementation success.

We envision the postdoc taking responsibility for three topics:

• Collaborating to develop and conduct a qualitative (meta-narrative) systematic review on the issue of equity in implementation research and practice;
• Collaborating to develop and conduct a qualitative (meta-narrative) systematic review on implementation success and issues related to measuring implementation outcomes;
• Collaborating on developing an implementation system dynamics approach to simulate implementation processes and outcomes.