Knowledge Mobilization and Network Ambidexterity in a Mandated Healthcare Network: A CLAHRC Case Study

This chapter explores the role of mandated networks in supporting knowledge mobilization. It applies a social network lens to one such network—CLAHRC-NET. Such structures, which have been described in the social network literature as “brokerage,” and “closure,” are seen as supporting knowledge mobilization in two ways. Brokerage is seen as valuable in knowledge “exploration”; namely acquiring and creating new knowledge. Closure involves the development of tight-knit groups of individuals, and is seen as helping to exploit such knowledge by embedding it within practice. The study thus highlights the scope for mandated networks to support knowledge mobilization through formal structures and roles that promote ambidexterity in the development of social ties. This has important implications for policy and practice in relation to the design of such networks. The chapter also serves to underline the value of a social network perspective for addressing the informal social dynamics of formally mandated networks.

Limitations to the Accuracy of Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Measurements: Atmospheric Fluctuations

We discuss the ultimate limits posed by atmospheric fluctuations to observations of cosmic background anisotropies (CBAs) in ground-based and balloon-borne experiments both in the radio and millimetric regions. We present correlation techniques useful in separating CBAs from atmospheric fluctuations. An experimental procedure is discussed for testing a site in view of possible CBA observations. Four sites with altitudes ranging from 0 up to 3.5 km have been tested

NHS top managers, knowledge exchange and leadership: the early development of Academic Health Science Networks – a mixed-methods study

This study explored knowledge networking and leadership in the context of the early development of Academic Health Science Networks in England and made recommendations for future research

Dall'individuo alla relazione (From the individual to the relationship)

Audio recording of the seminar "From the individual to the relationship", in which a multidisciplinary path is presented that revolves around a fundamental paradigm shift for understanding and intervention for the improvement of social reality: the transition from a perspective focused on individual to a relationship focused. With the help of some passages taken from various texts by physicist Fritjof Capra and psychoanalysts and psychotherapists Renzo Carli and Rosa Maria Paniccia, we retrace some salient stages of the epistemological journey that leads us from centering on the individual dimension of human experience to that based on its relationship dimension, highlighting the value of this change of perspective in terms of the possibility of change for the improvement of individual and collective quality of life. Registrazione audio del seminario “Dall’individuo alla relazione”, in cui viene presentato un percorso multidisciplinare che ruota intorno ad un fondamentale cambio di paradigma per la comprensione e l’intervento per il miglioramento della realtà sociale: il passaggio da una prospettiva focalizzata sull’individuo ad una focalizzata sulla relazione. Con l’ausilio di alcuni brani tratti da diversi testi del fisico Fritjof Capra e degli psicoanalisti e psicoterapeuti Renzo Carli e Rosa Maria Paniccia, si ripercorrono alcune tappe salienti del percorso epistemologico che ci porta dalla centratura sulla dimensione individuale dell’esperienza umana a quella fondata sulla sua dimensione relazione, evidenziando il valore di questo cambio di prospettiva in termini di possibilità di cambiamento per il miglioramento dalla qualità della vita individuale e collettiva