Towards Bridging the Research-Practice Gap: Understanding Researcher-Practitioner
summary
Survey of 133 HCC researchers finds >90% believe practitioners could use their work, yet engagement concentrates at the start and end of the research life cycle and only 86% rate practitioner-targeted outputs as important; 70% value practitioner input for topic selection. Major barriers include perceptions that practitioners don’t have time (≈66%), organizational gatekeeping (≈50%), and uncertainty how to reach practitioners (42%). Dissemination gaps show researchers favor presentations/articles while practitioners prefer online forums, podcasts, repositories and mailing lists. A new human-centered cybersecurity community of interest is launched to connect researchers and practitioners.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Bridging research-practice gap
- 1:13Research-practice gap in HCC
- 2:18Research questions & survey
- 3:43Practitioner engagement findings
- 5:10Barriers to practitioner engagement
- 6:32Researcher-practitioner disconnect
- 7:37Recommendations for researchers
- 9:41Challenges & opportunities
- 10:24Launching HCC community
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