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/