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KT Scotland Conference 23 April 2010 Building a Knowledge exchange culture Sarah Morton- Co-Director. CRFR aims • Produce high quality, collaborative and inclusive research relevant to key issues in families and relationships
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KT Scotland Conference 23 April 2010 Building a Knowledge exchange culture Sarah Morton- Co-Director
CRFR aims • Produce high quality, collaborative and inclusive research relevant to key issues in families and relationships • Act as a focal point, and promote and facilitate a network, for all those with and interest in research on families and relationships • Make research more accessible for use by policy makers, practitioners, research participants, academics and the wider public • Enhance the infrastructure to conduct research on families and relationships
CRFR knowledge exchange activities • Publications • research reports • research briefing series • posters and postcards • newsletter • Conferences and seminars • dissemination • discussion • academics, policy makers and practitioners. • Consultancy • The Knowledge Exchange Team is able to offer consultancy on research dissemination and • knowledge exchange more generally. For further information, contact Jennifer Flueckiger. • The team • Sarah Morton - CRFR Co-Director (Knowledge Exchange) • Jennifer Flueckiger - Information & Publications Officer • Dawn Cattanach - Graphic Designer & KE Assistant • Laura Marshall - Training & Events Administrator • Lesley Kelly - GUS Dissemination Officer
Collaboration and networking partnerships statutory, voluntary, and academic sectors Research Network CRFR blogs Policy work Consultations Scottish Government contract
Knowledge exchange projects • Connect in Care • Growing up in Scotland • Evidence and Policy Seminar Series Families of the future project Involuntary service users project
Collaboration with voluntary sector consortium provide evidence to inform service development identify, explore and take action on key challenges link knowledge from disabled people, parents, practitioners and research five different parenting and disability issues, creating an ‘evidence to action’ cycle for each topic: multi-agency forum to identify issues action plans Families of the future project
Engaging with Involuntary Service Users in Social Work ESRC/SFC/LARCI Engaging with Scottish Local Authorities Scheme
Overall aims Highlight relevant research on user involvement: examples of innovative practice and lessons from unsuccessful approaches. Increase skills and capacity of participating LA staff small scale research and inquiry. Develop networks for effective knowledge exchange LAs/ University/ wider social work community theme of working with involuntary service users.
Plan of work – over 12 months. Synthesis of Existing Work – briefing paper Agenda setting seminar March 2010 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Monitoring and Evaluation Across whole programme Impact Generating Activities Shared Events Internal Events Practitioner Research Projects
Lack of structure and support for KE Lack of ongoing funding Need for shared spaces and agendas Clearer focus on ‘so what’? New funding climate Ongoing issues and challenges