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Research affects every aspect of work within social welfare services. This includes evaluating performance, undertaking service audits, assessing needs, and enabling service users to be consulted and involved. Providers and users should also be actively invited to look at the implications of research reports and studies. This book can help you to explore and understand: the planning of new research; the various mechanisms that help determine the type of research questions posed; how the specific focus of a research study is decided; how and why specific methods and approaches are adopted; how to develop research tools that involve and empower users; how models can be employed for testing and comparison purposes; how and why the belief systems and backgrounds of researchers influence research findings; what checks and fail safe procedures need to be built into a specific programme of research work; what skills are required to properly examine and analyse the collected research data; how both the dissemination and use of research work is controlled. Throughout, the book offers practical advice, worked examples and clearly structured information on the entire research process. Hopefully this book will improve your ability to both undertake and evaluate the worth of research in whatever area of social research you are involved with.

Table of Contents:
Research issues. Part One: Planning the Project. Planning the research process. Commissioning research. Part Two: Putting a Project Together. Grounding the research. Documentary techniques. Measurement. Sampling. Interviews. Questionnaires. Observational methods. Case studies. Comparative research. Information communication technology. Part Three: Finishing Off the Project. Managing, analysing and interpreting data. Reporting research and presenting findings. A Few Final Thoughts. Sample research brief. Sample research contract. Bibliography.

About the Author :
The practical expertise of the authors ensures this book is highly relevant to the research demands of all those working within social welfare. Douglas Robertson is Senior Lecturer and research Director at the Department of Applied Social Science at University of Stirling. Alan Dearling is a researcher/consultant currently working with the London School of Economics and the Chartered Institute of Housing. His books include: Effective use of teambuilding in social welfare organisations. They both have over twenty-five years' experience of commissioning, managing, undertaking and evaluating research within the fields of social work, housing, youth and community work and criminal justice, as well as family and child projects.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781898924937
  • Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Russell House Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 243 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1898924937
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 170 mm


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