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

住房研究人员和从业人员往往生活在两个不同的世界。每个群体都有自己的网络、活动、辩论和结构。这个项目将有助于把这两个群体联合起来，进行有意义的政策辩论，采取切实的研究行动，改进战略和服务，并形成有助于巩固未来研究的协同作用。这项建议旨在帮助改善参与部门目前的经济困难。由于减少并在某些情况下停止使用国家可获得的数据集，在今后一段时间内，缺乏可供政策和实践界用于决策的有力证据的问题可能会加剧。政策和实务界目前面临的另一个问题是必须削减预算和资源短缺。这妨碍了从业人员本身研究问题、委托开展研究活动以及发现和选择有用的研究成果付诸行动的能力。商业部门同样面临着经济紧缩和厌恶风险的环境。它与学术界的联系需要进一步发展。因此，商业组织在发展提供基于研究的证据方面需要支持，从最初被视为商业上不可行的冒险转变为自我维持的活动。该项目将把谢菲尔德大学的一名研究人员安置在HQN有限公司，该公司运营着一个由大约700家住房组织组成的会员网络。研究人员的任务将是在HQN现有的基地内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摘要为特色。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。

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.