Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. This article summarises the practical advice to emerge from academic research and offers insights on how to support and engage in systems leadership. Systems leaders are needed to inspire and empower many other actors to produce more transformative change.

This article seek to answer the question - in what should we invest if we seek to maximise the impact of research?

There is a wealth of advice and ‘how to’ guides available to academics on the subject of how research can have an impact on policy and practice. In this post, Kathryn Oliver and Paul Cairney assess the value of this literature.