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Improving Research through User Engagement (Hardcover)
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Improving Research through User Engagement (Hardcover)
Series: Improving Learning
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There are increasing calls for social science researchers to work
more closely with research users. References to engaging users in
and with research are now common in research funding requirements,
national research strategies and large-scale research programmes.
User engagement has therefore become part of the rhetoric of
educational and social science research. But what is user
engagement, how can it be achieved and what challenges and
opportunities does it present for researchers and research users?
The authors of this new book present an authoritative overview of
recent theoretical debates, practical developments and empirical
evidence on the role of user engagement in contemporary educational
and social science research. The book focuses on the relationship
between user engagement and research design, and emphasises how
user engagement needs to be understood as an interplay between the
different kinds of knowledge and expertise held by researchers and
users. Drawing on evidence from studies involving different kinds
of research users, there is detailed discussion of the dynamics and
complexities of working with practitioners, service users and
policy-makers. The authors make clear that user engagement has
definite implications for the way in which research is designed,
managed and commissioned, and the way in which researchers and
research users are trained, supported and encouraged to interact.
Written for the many professionals involved in funding, doing and
using research within education and other social sciences, this
book provides: conceptual guidance on different approaches and
interpretations of user engagement examples and evidence of
effective strategies for engaging practitioners, service users and
policy-makers capacity building ideas and implications for
researchers and research users specific suggestions as to how the
conceptualization, management, scaling up and evidence base of user
engagement could be improved. At the core of this forward-thinking
text is a robust analysis of an important facet of modern social
science research. The authors' evidence-based, evaluative approach
provides a useful, detailed analysis of an area of social science
research methodology which is increasingly valued and emphasised by
research councils and mediators.
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