Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

One Local Authority’s progress towards developing a culture

of research and evidence-informed practice

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

• Angie Liversedge – Performance Improvement Manager WMDC

• Jess McEwen – KTP Associate: Research Development Officer

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Workshop outline

•What is KTP?

•Introduction to the Wakefield project

•The beginning – our research

•Developing an Action Plan

•Implementing the Action Plan

•Some initial successes

•Project evaluation

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

• Academic + commercial partnership • Knowledge transfer and innovation• Industry & public sector• DTI (>50% funding – research councils)• Momenta • Employed by University• Supervision, Local Management Committee

What is KTP?

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

EVIDENCE-INFORMEDPRACTICE

PERFORMANCEMANAGEMENT

RESEARCH

Introduction to the Wakefield project

Research culture

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

The Beginning - research

• RGF Benchmarking project

• Staff consultation

• Searching the literature

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

• Identifying Barriers

• Resource gaps

• Existing good practice

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Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Developing an Action Plan

Aims

• Increase awareness of and knowledge about the RGF

• Increase awareness of the potential value of evidence-informed practice

• Develop approaches that aim to overcome the barriers and give staff the skills, knowledge and ability to carry out and/or utilise research more effectively

• Increase organisational commitment to the development of a research culture

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Implementing the Action Plan• Developing research area on staff Intranet

• Research & Evidence-Informed Practice Conference

• Research workshops

• Building on links with MRC

• Linking research to GSCC requirements for re-registration

• Research mentors

• Ethics panel

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Implementing the Action Plan Continued!• New Starters Pack

• Embedding into supervision

• Team and Service Improvement Plans

• Performance Clinics

• Research is now part of our Performance and Planning frameworks

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Some initial successes

• Increased RGF applications

• Increased interest in research – more than 100 people attended conference despite flooding!

• Management support

• Effective partnerships

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Project evaluation

• Outcomes measures identified through staff survey

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

Any questions?

Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research

• Angie Liversedge – Performance Improvement Manager WMDC

(01924) 305614 aliversedge@wakefield.gov.uk

• Jess McEwen – KTP Associate: Research Development Officer

(01924) 305690 jmcewen@wakefield.gov.uk