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The place of practitioner research in supporting a culture
of learning in Children and Families Social Work
Rhoda MacRae April 2015
Thinking behind the practitioner research
• Involve managers• Learning not free
standing• Building on existing
relationships/links• Personal contact• Voluntary• Culture
Benefits of practitioner research
• Produces of research with direct relevance to practice concerns
• Improves the critical inquiry and research capacity of individuals and organisations
• Helps an organisation develop a learning orientation• Reduces the distance knowledge has to travel from
research to practice• Provides a starting point for further research/practice
collaborations
• Armstrong & Allsop 2010; Anderson & Jones, 2000; Roper, 2002
Process and design
• 11 months – ambitious!• Submit proposal• Handbook & 5 inputs – research process• Visitor status of university & Mentors• KE event
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/projects/completed-projects/changing-children-and-families-social-work/
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