Research and Impact Strategy

1. Promote and celebrate an inclusive culture of curiosity to inspire greater engagement and a sense of belonging in research by the whole dietetic workforce

a. Increase visibility of the range of research activities undertaken across the diverse dietetic workforce.

b. Raise the profile of projects that demonstrate the positive impact of dietetic workforce interventions.

c. Celebrate successes in research activities and research leadership across all career stages, employment sectors and job roles.

2. Champion and articulate the health and economic value of a research-active workforce to managers, employers and healthcare leaders

a. Raise the profile of projects that demonstrate the value of a research-active dietetic workforce.

b. Support managers, employers and leaders to embed research activities into roles and routine practice for the whole dietetic workforce, across all career stages. 

c. Support and promote research activities that evidence the impact of practitioner and clinical academic roles.

d. Celebrate and provide recognition where research-active environments are evident.

3. Enhance the skills of the current and future workforce to use evidence, do research activities and communicate to optimise impact

a. Support members to critically engage with evidence-based practice.

b. Ensure research skills and their practical application are prominent within training the future workforce.

c. Provide guidance for doing effective, culturally competent, co-produced research activities with public and service user involvement; from idea generation, to project completion and knowledge mobilisation.

d. Create a sustainable mentorship scheme that is inclusive, supportive and rewarding for mentors and mentees.

e. Provide guidance to maximise the impact and knowledge implementation from research activities.

4. Support and develop opportunities for the dietetic workforce to collaborate, engage in, and lead research activities to expand the UK dietetic research capacity.

a. Optimise and create effective, supportive and sustainable networks to facilitate collaboration.

b. Develop BDA research priorities to inform multi-centred projects to produce high quality dietetic outcomes data, identify and address inequalities, and evidence for dietetic workforce impact.

c. Improve visibility of research funding opportunities for the dietetic workforce.

d. Promote research leadership training and opportunities to the dietetic workforce.

5. Maximise the impact of dietetic workforce research through effective communication with key stakeholders.

a. Raise the profile of impactful dietetic workforce research activities beyond the UK dietetic profession.

b. Optimise dietetic impact through effective communication of evidence informed BDA research activities and policy to key stakeholders.

c. Increase dietetic representation and influence within key research stakeholders and within AHP research communities.