v1 RHP (Let people know the results) (Copy)

This phase can include:

• Co-presenting at conferences and events

• Making plain language or easy read summaries

• Making creative outputs (e.g. art, exhibitions, videos)

• Creating campaigns

• Holding public events with community groups

• Influencing policy and decision-makers

• Working with health workers and consumers to apply the findings

• Co-authoring scientific papers

• Co-authoring policy briefs/recommendations

Here’s what researchers told us and what we learned from other resources:

• Create and share pre-publication drafts with the whole team.

• Be flexible with different ways to give feedback (e.g. voice note, email, call, track changes)

• Talk about how each person in the team wants to be recognised and named on publications (or not)

• Be sensitive about deficit-based or stigmatising language and make changes

• Make time to celebrate the work and reflect on growth across the team.

When you’re ready to share the results get clear on:

• who you’re trying to reach (your audience or audiences)

• what might engage them

• what change the team and funder(s) want to see (goals)

Then:

• Consider your audience(s) and opportunities for non-traditional dissemination e.g. posters, comics, videos, social media, flyers, infographics etc.

• Consider working with writers and artists from the community or communities you’re working with to tell the story of the research.

Here’s what consumers and carers told us and we learned from other resources

• Agree why the research is being shared, what change you’re hoping for and who the audience or audiences are.

• Decide together what can be shared.

• Be involved in writing up findings

• Have flexibility about sharing feedback on drafts (e.g. in writing, as a voice note, walking through it together, on a platform that everyone can access)

• Notice language that might stigmatise, harm or embarrass consumers or carers. Have the feedback taken seriously and worked through.

• Be involved in how to share the results with participants and the wider communities

• Have time to celebrate the work and the team

❌ Don’t present or publish findings without the endorsement of the people who were involved in the research. Instead, check in with each person. Acknowledge the contributions of all of the team and develop a dissemination strategy/plan with assigned roles. Never include people’s names on research outputs who haven’t been asked to endorse it.

❌ Don’t pick the format first. Instead, explore and agree on what different audiences you’re trying to reach and the outcomes you want. Be more specific than ‘all clinicians’ or ‘all consumers.’ You’ll likely need different formats for different audiences and to involve people with different writing and communication skills.

❌ Don’t move on to your next project and forget to celebrate the work. Instead, pause and explore ways to celebrate together. It doesn’t have to be fancy to be meaningful.

❌ Don’t be dogmatic about how to share the findings or only consider traditional research outputs such as papers and posters. Instead, as well as traditional research outputs such as papers and posters, you might also use art, exhibitions, videos, comics or other creative communications.

❌ Don’t share the outcomes only with a restricted academic audience that communities can’t access. Instead, use Open Access journals and write a companion plain language summary with every research publication or report.