angie liversedge – performance improvement manager wmdc
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One Local Authority’s progress towards developing a culture of research and evidence-informed practice. Angie Liversedge – Performance Improvement Manager WMDC Jess McEwen – KTP Associate: Research Development Officer. Workshop outline. What is KTP? Introduction to the Wakefield project - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected]
• Jess McEwen – KTP Associate: Research Development Officer
(01924) 305690 [email protected]