Buck, G, Whiteside, N, Newman, A, Jones, H, Stanley, S, Feather, J and Millard, W (2022) Promoting Practitioner Research through a Social Work Teaching Partnership. Practice. ISSN 0950-3153

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Abstract

Research is critical for effective and innovative social work practice, yet social workers do not always have time to engage with research and there are limited accounts of how practitioners can undertake research in practical and meaningful terms (Mitchell, Lunt, and Shaw 2010). Using a reflective, storytelling methodology (Beresford 2016), which centres experiential knowledge, we describe how one regional social work teaching partnership nurtured practitioner research over a three-year period. We introduce a regionally administrated ‘hub’, that connected social workers and academics and supported the development of seventeen research teams. The studies that resulted, focused on a range of important issues including child protection, young people in transition to adult services, adults in community and residential settings, lived experience-led provision, and social work education. In terms of limitations, our reflections are descriptive and illuminative, rather than critical, our findings are also not representative but rather reflect a snapshot of practice. Despite limitations, this commentary reveals the feasibility and value of proactively nurturing practitioner research and offers a blueprint for cultivating similar initiatives in other regions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1607 Social Work
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV697 Protection, assistance and relief
Divisions:	Nursing & Allied Health
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2022 12:06
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2023 00:50
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/09503153.2022.2128324
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17700

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