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Explore the importance of research in informing professional practice, accountability, and the constant need to update and evaluate. Understand the complexities of working with diverse populations and the responsibility to advance the profession through value, theory, and knowledge-based endeavors. Discover various functions and forms of research that support effective practice and drive problem-solving knowledge generation. Delve into issues related to responsibility, conceptualization, and resource allocation in research and practice.
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Practice Research Jan Fook University of Southampton
Why? • Accountability • Constant need to update/evaluate • Need to work effectively with differing populations • Responsibility to the profession • Development of the profession as value, theory and knowledge-based endeavour – need to recognise and research complexity
What? Research which directly informs professional practice • On, from or for practice (Orme) • 5 functions (Fisher) • Reclaim reasons for practice • Link meanings and outcomes • Involve in knowledge production • Interpret research for practice • Generate problem-solving knowledge
What forms? • Evaluations, practice improvement • Document/identify/articulate practice • Theorise practice • Identify or measure outcomes of practice • Identify experiences of practitioners/service users • Represent complexities of practice
The issues….. • Whose responsibility?.... • Doing…… • Conceptualising…… • Resourcing…….