Disseminating housing research to practitioners who can use the findings to shape and improve services

向从业者传播住房研究，他们可以利用研究结果来塑造和改善服务

• 批准号: ES/K005669/1
• 负责人: Edward Ferrari
• 金额: $ 5.26万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK005669%2F1
• 关键词: Disseminating; housing; research; practitioners; who

Housing researchers and practitioners inhabit two often separate worlds. Each group has its own networks, events, debates and structures. This project would help to bring the two groups together, to achieve meaningful policy debate, practical action for research informed improvement to strategy and services, and a synergy that could help to underpin future research. This proposal seeks to help ameliorate the current economic difficulties in the participating sectors. The problem of lack of robust evidence for the policy and practice community to use in decision making is likely to be exacerbated in the coming period, following the curtailment and in some cases cessation of nationally available data sets. A further current problem for the policy and practice community exists in the necessity for budget cuts and the scarcity of resources. This is hampering practitioners' capacity to research issues themselves, to commission research exercises and to find and select useful research to put into action. The commercial sector similarly faces economic austerity and a risk-averse climate. Its links to the academic community need further development. Commercial organisations therefore need support in developing the provision of research-based evidence from what would initially be seen as a non-viable venture commercially into a self-sustaining activity. The project would place a University of Sheffield researcher with HQN Ltd, which operates a membership network of about 700 housing organisations. The researcher's task would be to set up and operate a bespoke network within HQN's existing base, featuring news and digests of relevant academic and other research. An impact-focused initiative working individually with four organisations to support them in incorporating academic research into their policy and practice or strategic work would form a core part of the project.

住房研究人员和从业人员居住在两个往往不同的世界。每个团体都有自己的网络、活动、辩论和结构。这一项目将有助于将这两个群体聚集在一起，进行有意义的政策辩论，采取实际行动，促进研究，为战略和服务的改进提供信息，并发挥协同作用，有助于支持未来的研究。这项建议的目的，是协助改善参与计划的行业目前面对的经济困难。在国家现有数据集缩减并在某些情况下停止使用之后，政策和实践界在决策中使用的强有力证据不足的问题在今后一个时期可能会加剧。政策和实践界目前面临的另一个问题是必须削减预算和资源稀缺。这妨碍了从业人员自己研究问题、委托开展研究活动以及寻找和选择有用的研究成果付诸行动的能力。商业部门同样面临经济紧缩和规避风险的环境。它与学术界的联系需要进一步发展。因此，商业组织需要得到支持，以发展提供基于研究的证据，从最初被视为商业上不可行的企业转变为自我维持的活动。该项目将把一名谢菲尔德大学的研究人员与HQN有限公司合作，该公司经营着一个由大约700个住房组织组成的会员网络。研究人员的任务是在HQN现有的基础上建立和运营一个定制的网络，以相关学术和其他研究的新闻和专家为特色。一个以影响为重点的倡议与四个组织单独合作，支持他们将学术研究纳入其政策和实践或战略工作，将成为该项目的核心部分。