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TLRP Thematic Seminar Series Making a Difference: Working with Users to Develop Educational Research http://www.tlrp.org

TLRP Thematic Seminar Series Making a Difference: Working with Users to Develop Educational Research http://www.tlrp.org/themes/seminar/anneedwards.html. Anne Edwards, Judy Sebba & Mark Rickinson. TLRP Annual Conference, 28-30 November 2005 Scarman Conference Centre, Warwick.

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TLRP Thematic Seminar Series Making a Difference: Working with Users to Develop Educational Research http://www.tlrp.org

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  1. TLRP Thematic Seminar Series Making a Difference: Working with Users to Develop Educational Research http://www.tlrp.org/themes/seminar/anneedwards.html Anne Edwards, Judy Sebba & Mark Rickinson TLRP Annual Conference, 28-30 November 2005 Scarman Conference Centre, Warwick

  2. User Engagement: rhetoric or reality? • Funders expect user engagement in applications • Verification of findings & accessibility of outputs is important but not enough • What does ‘meaningful’ user engagement look like – throughout the research process? ‘sustained interactivity transforms one-way reporting into mutual learning’ (Weiss, 1998) • Research design not yet addressed

  3. The Seminar Series • Different interpretations of ‘user engagement • Different frameworks for promoting user engagement • Funders, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers • TLRP, education and other social sciences • Implications for research design

  4. Seminar One: the TLRP experience • Research genres: different beliefs about knowledge and how it is produced and used • Relationships with research: an evidence informed approach, a theory-led approach, an interaction between theory and practice • Issues of time-scale: evidence often too late for both policy and practice

  5. Seminar Two: research & policy • Three approaches to the relationship between research, policy and practice: incrementalist, radical democratic, radical policy-oriented (Alan Dyson) • Research needs to be embodied as well as embedded (Sandra Nutley) • Need to focus on the enduring issues to generate resources on which policy-makers can draw (Andrew Pollard)

  6. Seminar Three: research & practice • Types of knowledge flow (down, along and up stream) • Research use is ‘not a clean process’ (Robin Bevan) • Mediators, tipping points, permission, spaces, relationships, funding … • Certainties, contentions and enduring concerns (Lesley Saunders)

  7. Seminars 4 & 5 Seminar 4What can we learn about user engagement from the wider social science community? March 8, 2006, University of Oxford Seminar 5A Review of the Learning from the Previous Seminars with a Focus on the Implications for the Development of Educational Research June 15, 2006, Institute of Education, London Further details contact Joan Lloyd j.v.lloyd@bham.ac.uk

  8. User engagement Research design Questions for discussion Is it a question of …. How can different research designs better embrace user engagement? Or What yet to be tried research designs could better support user engagement? Or What understandings of the design process might support user engagement? e.g. ecological design: ‘design as a continuous learning process rather than a blueprint’

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