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Social Care Research Fiona Verity Wales School for Social Care Research, Swansea University The Wales School of Social Care Research will contribute to the sustained coproduction of excellent social care research that informs and

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Social Care Research

Fiona Verity Wales School for Social Care Research, Swansea University

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´ The Wales School of Social Care Research will contribute to the sustained coproduction of excellent social care research that informs and enriches social care policy and practice in Wales in order to have a positive impact on people’s well-being across the life course (children, young people and adults).

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Dimensions of Social Care Research

(Source: Health and Care Research Wales Eligibility for Social Care Funding: Guidelines

Social care Protection or social support services Prevention and promotion Social and community cohesion National and/

r local

policies Care, support, personal assistance Organisations and systems

Human rights Values Interfaces Life course Improvement

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Value of social care research

Knowledge for practice Knowledge to create enabling ad supporting environments Knowledge as power

Credit Kristian Hammerstad (New York Times, MAY 11, 2015)

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Social care research

´ ‘health research and social care research are generally different in nature, scale, volume and funding, as well as in the mix of stakeholders,

rganisational context and range of academic

disciplines.’

´ (Source: UK policy framework for health and social care research, 3.6 2015).

Curious Systematic Intentional Comparative Principled Purposeful

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Social care methodologies

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Values

´ “the involvement of the public in research is about 'research being carried out 'with' or 'by' members

f the public rather

than 'to', 'about' or 'for' them‘” (SCIE)

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Wales School for Social Care Research

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Taking an all-Wales approach
Valuing different forms of knowledge
Capacity building
Collaboration
Public engagement
Systems thinking

Public engagement and involvement Leadership ¡for ¡social ¡care ¡ research ¡to ¡support ¡ capacity ¡building ¡ Research cultures and informed policy and practice New ¡knowledge ¡ genera8on ¡

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Model of operation

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Wales School for Social Care Research Areas of activity ´ 12 Strategy areas ´ Developmental approach ´ Phased and reflection and learning process

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References

´ Dodd, S.J. and Epstein, I. (2012) Practice-based research in social work, London: Routledge. ´ Mitchell, F., Shaw, I. and N. Lunt (2008) Practitioner Research in Social Services: a Literature Review , Report prepared for The Institute for Research and Innovation in the Social Services, York University. ´ http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/researchmindedness/ introduction.asp