List of Papers from Intsoceval workshop 1999:
Researcher - practitioner partnership and research implementation

Centre for the Evaluation of Social Services Stockholm, Sweden
October 7 - 8, 1999

Call for papers

Implementation of research results and research utilisation in social work is an issue of importance both for the research community and for practitioners. Likewise, service users are impacted by research results. The profession is in need of and asking for practice relevant knowledge, is it suggested, but it also seems that research produced by the research community is experienced as too academic and not practice relevant. The question is what empirical circumstances do exist beyond the rhetoric used. Are research results utilised and implemented in order to enhance social work practice? What kind of experiences do the centres have in terms of their research results being implemented? In the context of the workshop, the issue should specifically be approached within the framework of researcher - practitioner partnership concept. Do such partnerships facilitate research utilisation and implementation of research results? An additional aspect is service users' utilisation of research results. As in the York workshop, we basically lean on experiences of the centres. What do the centres' experiences show over the years?

Furthermore, related to the issue is a piece of research commissioned by CUS and undertaken by a group of researchers in Lund on research utilisation in and by Swedish social services. Hopefully, some of the results of this research project will be available and reported at the workshop.