Improving quality use of research evidence in practice: Insights from cross-sector co-design

The Q Project is a 5-year partnership between Monash University and the Paul Ramsay Foundation to understand and improve the use of research evidence in Australian schools. In 2021, the project hosted two series of co-design workshops with teachers, school leaders, and other education stakeholders to develop improvement interventions. Co-design is an approach which involves participants exploring, developing, and testing responses to shared challenges. Forty-nine teachers, school leaders, and system leaders across five jurisdictions took part and shared their collective knowledge and expertise to identify ways to improve research use in Australian schools. This document reports on the outcomes and implications of this co-design process.