Increasing the Competence and Confidence of Social Work Researchers II: An Action-Learning Programme to Develop Research Capacity
01/02/08 - 31/01/10
The primary aim of this RDI is to help social work researchers and academics to feel more confident to make a successful medium sized bid to a public funding body.
The project began with a one-day conference in May 2008, followed by:
- Expert workshops in:
- systematic reviews and scoping studies,
- mixed methods in design and analysis and
- quasi-experimentation and instrument design, aimed specifically at social work research (50 post-graduate researchers will also be invited to attend these workshops).
- An opportunity for 15 LSet members to spend a month on a 'mini-placement' with a network of registered providers of systematic reviews and scoping studies coordinated by SCIE.
There will also be available:
- A repository of downloadable resources for laptops, Mac/PCs, iPods and MP3 players to include all taught materials
- Synchronous chat-rooms and discussion groups, available in printable forms
- Online downloadable availability of all published protocols, methodological papers and draft research proposals
- An online facility to explain in straightforward, non-mathematical terms the basic principles and uses of contemporary statistics for social work researchers.
Principal Investigator: Professor David Shemmings, University of Kent
Co-Investigators: Professor Ian Shaw, University of York,
Professor Joan Orme, University of Glasgow,
Professor John Carpenter, University of Bristol,
Professor Donald Forester, University of Bedford