Making Research Work

Dorota Iwaniec is a Professor of Social Work and Director of the Institute of Child Care Research at Queen's University of Belfast. She has extensive clinical and research experience of working with children and their families and, in particular, in failure to thrive, neglect, emotional abuse, and behavioural and emotional problems of children and adolescents. She has been researching failure-to-thrive children for the last 25 years and has recently completed a 20-year follow-up study. Prior to coming to Queen's University she worked as a social worker, researcher, and trainer in Leicester for nearly 30 years, both at the Social Services Department and at the Department of Child Health at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

• THE RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH TO POLICY AND PRACTICE.Research and Development Strategies in the National Health Serviceand Personal Social Services in the United Kingdom (D.Iwaniec).The Impact of Research on Policy and Practice: A SystemicPerspective (J. Pinkerton). The Influence of Research on Child CarePolicy and Practice: The Case of 'Children Who Wait' and theDevelopment of the Permanence Movement in the United Kingdom (G.Kelly).CHILD CARE RESEARCH: SOME CHALLENGING CONTEMPORARYDEVELOPMENTS.Evidencing Effectiveness: The Use of Single-Case Designs in ChildCare Work (K. Dillenburger).Literature Reviewing: Towards a More Rigorous Approach (K. HigginsJ. Pinkerton).The Importance of and Difficulties with Official Statistics: A CaseStudy of Child Care Data (V. Switzer).Researching Hidden Populations(K. Higgins).Child Participatory Research: Ethical and MethodologicalConsiderations (C. McAuley).Developing a Strategy for Disseminating Research Findings (M.Monteith).PROMOTING AND SECURING A BASIS FOR RESEARCH.Preparing a Research Proposal for Funding Purposes (P.McCrystal).Commissioning Research (M. Monteith).Who and How to Approach Regarding Research Sponsoring (P.McCrystal).Promoting Research Through the Establishment of Research Centres(D. Iwaniec).Index.

"... a solid overview of issues relevant to agency-based research in child care... provides a useful complement to the specialised research literature." (European Journal of Social Work, Volume 3/2, 2000)