RCFM (28 November 2023)

How can research or interventions become useful for society and communities? 

• All research is always already accurately interventional

• Researchers should use suitable research techniques and evaluate contexts

• Research will never be useful for society

• Researchers can directly copy and paste previous projects

What is Implementation Science? 

• A biological scientific category to study humans

• A social scientific framework to study how to implement interventions

• A psychological test to study contexts

• A philosophical concept about being pragmatic

What was the initial motive of Implementation Science? 

• To play with research methods

• To carefully use resources and research for societal good

• To make the Social Sciences scientific

• To study contexts

How can we study contexts well?

• There's no way to do that

• There's no such thing as 'contexts'

• Use suitable research techniques

Which of the following research methods can be used to study contexts?

• Interviews

• Focus group discussions

• Participant observations

• Statistical analysis and hypothesis-testing

• All of the above

Consider the following hypothetical scenario. Many families in Malaysia lack the financial means to allow their children to play and fully enjoy sports. What could researchers do to help them?

• Researchers can't do anything about this

• Research teams could study the depth, width, and needs of the situation before producing possible solutions (e.g. working with the Ministry of Sports and Youth)

• Researchers should tell the children to not play sports then

Why is being suitably interventional in research important?

• It's not actually important

• So that researchers can become famous

• So that researchers can create potentially suitable solutions for specific problems

• So that researchers can become technically prolific

What is an 'intervention'?

• big programs

• intrusion

• big ideas

• Timely, helpful, and realistic program / policy / idea

What does the acronym CFIR denote?

• Consolidated Framework for Intervention Research

• Case-Study Framework for Implementation Research

• Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

• Consolidated Framework for Implementation Reasoning

What is Michel de Certeau's project mainly about?

• Everyday consumerism

• Cooking

• Shopping

• Everyday enjoyment of life despite capitalism