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Table 3 Linkages, collaborations and partnerships.

From: A framework to evaluate research capacity building in health care

Structural level

Examples of suggested criteria

Individual

• Who they have worked with: to gain knowledge and to share knowledge

• Evidence of increased number of research partnerships

• Evidence of inter-professional working

Teams

• Who the team has worked with: academic and practice

• Network development (work with other teams)

• Evidence of inter-professional and other links

Organisational

• Links with universities/RDSUs

• Evidence of joint posts with university

• Evidence of working with other service organisations on research

• Evidence of contribution/memberships to Networks

• Work with funding bodies

Supra-organisational (networks and support units)

• Joint posts hosted

• Evidence of research collaboration with practitioners, teams, networks and organisations in health care practice

• Development of links across networks

• International links