title: Spaces of knowing: an Australian case study of capacity building across boundaries in a health promotion learning network.
abstract: This article explores the potential for health promotion capacity building across boundaries in a place-based health promotion learning network generated as part of a recent Australian Research Council-funded project in Queensland, Australia. We emphasise in particular the potential of creating new 'at the boundary' spaces of knowing that encourage and enable health promotion workers to work in interdisciplinary and intersectoral ways. The article discusses the way that diverse health promotion workers from different disciplines and government and non-government organisations came together to learn 'how to do' in new or re-invigorated ways. For many network participants, this cross-boundary space of knowing and capacity building provided a welcome respite from their daily contexts of practice which may be limited by institutional, disciplinary or other boundaries.
authors.affiliation: 1. Griffith University - Menzies Health Institute, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sunderland
authors.affiliation: 2. Griffith University - Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Mt Gravatt, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Parlo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: 3. Griffith University - School of Human Services & Social Work, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Letitia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Del Fabbro
authors.affiliation: 3. Griffith University - School of Human Services & Social Work, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D057191:Capacity Building / Q000379:methods*; D006266:Health Education; D006282:Health Personnel; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D012944:Social Support
keywords: capacity building; capacity building competencies; collaboration; health promotion; knowledge translation; partnerships; social networks