Extending Social Research Application, Implementation and Publication

Name: Extending Social Research Application, Implementation and Publication
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ISBN: 9780335215294

ISBN-10: 0335215297

ISBN-13: 9780335215294

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gayle Letherby, Paul Bywaters

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Aimed at social researchers, research commissioners and students, this book is about the application, implementation and publication of social research. It focuses on the tasks of making findings available and ensuring that applied social research makes a difference to practice and policy. We argue on grounds of both ethics and efficacy that these are essential elements of the research process, in contrast to their marginalisation in many research methods texts. We explore the responsibilities this perspective implies for researchers: to funders, users and other partners. We look critically at the context of research production, the expectations placed on researchers by funders, the…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 12/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Notes on contributors



Introduction



Extending social research



Introduction


Current models of social research


Ending or extending social research?


Authorship and structure


End points



Theoretical and practical issues



Extending social research: why?



Introduction


Reasons for extending social research


Ethical arguments


Pragmatic arguments


Methodological arguments


Barriers, problems and challenges to extending social research


Lack of skills and opportunity


Academic structures and lack of institutional support


Publish and perish


End points



Extending social research: meanings and understandings



Introduction


Knowledge, values and involvement


Objectivity, subjectivity and knowledge production


'Trust me, I'm a university researcher': power, privilege and accountability


Process, product and re/presentation


Standpoint and standpoints


'Insiders' and 'outsiders'


Analysis and re/presentation


End points



Extending social research: how?



Introduction


Enhancing impact throughout the research process


Identifying research users


Developing research ideas


Design


Contracts


Access


Fieldwork and analysis


Writing/reporting/presenting


Continuing engagement


End points



Process and product: practice examples



Setting the agenda



Introduction


Funding priorities and influences


Choosing a method or methods


Ethics and ethical approval


Establishing research teams


Intellectual property rights


Developing relationships: impact and further research


End points



Managing the process



Introduction


Steering groups


Building and maintaining relationships


Access


Methods and methodological experience


Analysis


Commissioner responses


End points



Outputs



Introduction


Research outputs: what works?


Output strategy and audiences


Target audiences


Managing audience reception


Tailoring outputs to audiences


Enlisting intermediaries


Forms of output


Written outputs


Oral presentations and outputs


Technology and outputs


Media and outputs


End points



Outcomes



Introduction


Arguments against a close relationship between research and practice


Key issues


What works?


Young parents: training programme


Young parents: specialist services


Opportunities and barriers


End points



Reflections



Where are we now?



Introduction


Arguments and evidence


Research policy implications


What have we learnt?


References


Index