departments of the dartington hall trust
research in practice

Research in Practice is the largest children and families research implementation project in England and Wales, run in collaboration with the Association of Directors of Social Services, The University of Sheffield and a network of over 80 participating agencies in the UK.

Their mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and families through the use of research evidence.

Their purpose is to identify effective methods of understanding and using research by providing services to a collaborative network of committed agencies

Research in Practice believes that its mission can be achieved if:

  • Children and families receive services that are informed by research on the most effective ways to promote positive outcomes for them
  • Knowledge of research is embedded in the delivery of professional services for children and families
  • Practitioners, managers and policy makers take personal responsibility for developing their research knowledge and use
  • Employing agencies take responsibility for creating the culture and resources to facilitate effective use of research knowledge
  • Researchers and research funders work in an ethical way which includes establishing a sense of ownership for service providers and users, and which is likely to benefit children and families
  • There is collaborative exploration by a committed network, using experimentation, innovation, reflection, evaluation, modelling and action-learning to create something which is unique, transparent and valuable.

Research in Practice achieves its aims in several ways:

  • By working intensively with a small number of ambitious agencies - testing and evaluating new methods of promoting evidence-informed practice which others may adopt and replicate
  • By promoting evidence-informed practice (EIP) across a broad membership using a variety of methods at many organisational levels. These include professional development through

Visit the Research in Practice website for more information.

 

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