Doing Practitioner Research

by Mark Fox

• ISBN13: 9781412912334
• ISBN10: 1412912334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-08
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This is an ideal text for the growing number of practitioners working in health, education, and social care who are undertaking research. Authors Mark Fox, Gillian Green, and Peter Martin provide the perfect introduction to why practitioners are in the unique position to conduct research that actually improves professional practice. The authors cover in detail the range of skills and techniques necessary to make a successful start to the process of becoming an effective practitioner researcher.

Author Biography

Mark Fox is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology at the University of Essex Peter Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Essex Gill Green is a Professor in Medical Sociology at the University of Essex

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Framing Research	p. 7
Identifying Areas to Research	p. 7
Research Worlds	p. 9
Different Research Paradigms	p. 11
The Quality of Research	p. 17
Hierarchy of Research Evidence	p. 19
Mixed Methods for the Practitioner Researcher	p. 21
Summary	p. 24
Further Reading	p. 24
Thinking Critically About Theory And Practice	p. 25
Professional Knowledge	p. 25
Prepositional Knowledge	p. 29
Process Knowledge	p. 32
Personal Knowledge	p. 33
Value-based Knowledge	p. 35
Practice Culture	p. 37
Summary	p. 40
Further Reading	p. 40
Using Research as a Process for Development	p. 42
Development in Organisations	p. 42
Research Designs that Promote Initiation of Change	p. 45
Action Research Designs to Produce Implementation and Continuation	p. 47
Action Research as Social Management	p. 49
Participatory Action Research (PAR)	p. 52
Emancipatory Research	p. 55
Summary	p. 57
Further Reading	p. 58
Evaluating Your Own Organisation	p. 59
The Shadow Side of Organisations	p. 59
Working with the Shadow Side of Organisations	p. 62
Evaluation	p. 66
Realist Evaluation	p. 69
Undertaking Realist Evaluation	p. 71
The Shadow Side of Evaluation	p. 73
Summary	p. 74
Further Reading	p. 75
Researching Your Own Practice	p. 76
The Practitioner Researcher's Intent	p. 76
Practitioner Research	p. 79
Power in Practitioner Research	p. 88
Summary	p. 93
Further Reading	p. 94
Undertaking Ethical Research	p. 95
The Organisational structures	p. 95
Professional Guidelines and Regulations	p. 100
Doing Ethical Research	p. 104
Obtaining Ethical Approval	p. 106
Striking a Balance Between Bureaucracy and Ethical Research	p. 108
Summary	p. 111
Further Reading	p. 111
Undertaking Research	p. 112
Research Design	p. 112
Developing a Research Proposal-An Example	p. 118
Fixed Protocols and Flexible Research	p. 121
Time Management and Gantt Charts	p. 125
Summary	p. 128
Further Reading	p. 129
Service User Involvement	p. 130
The Role of the Service User in Research	p. 131
Styles of Involvement	p. 133
Case Studies	p. 136
Establishing Effective Engagement	p. 141
Ownership of Research Conducted in Collaboration with Service Users	p. 144
Summary	p. 146
Further Reading	p. 146
Writing the Research Report	p. 147
Writing as Part of the Research Process	p. 147
Writing Up the Research Report	p. 148
Establishing Integrity and Balance	p. 153
Dissemination	p. 160
Summary	p. 162
Further Reading	p. 163
Research Utilisation: Maximising the Impact of Research on Practice	p. 164
The Context of Research utilisation	p. 165
Working Collaboratively	p. 166
Marketing Research	p. 170
Motivation for Change	p. 172
Change and Learning Organisations	p. 176
Summary	p. 177
Further Reading	p. 178
Developing the Practitioner Researcher	p. 179
How Practitioners Develop	p. 179
Kolb's Learning Cycle	p. 181
Reflection	p. 184
Reflexivity	p. 186
Techniques for Developing Reflective Skills	p. 189
Supervision	p. 191
Summary	p. 195
Further Reading	p. 195
Conclusions	p. 196
References	p. 202
Index	p. 207
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