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Research for Real promotes learning from research by providing facilitation, advice and support for social research and evaluation using participatory and action research approaches.
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"The point of research should be to talk to each other about what we ought to be doing."
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Research for Real can enhance the quality and impact of the work of public and voluntary sector organisations and communities promoting social change.
Our interest is in supporting learning and building capacity through a range of research, evaluation and consultative processes. For example:
- Using action research as a tool to support organisational and community learning and leadership development amongst practitioners and partnerships.
- Enhancing the quality of participation, consultation and strategic planning processes within and across organisations and communities.
- Provision of high quality qualitative and quantitative social research and evaluation.
- Assistance in thinking through a new approach to research and building support for novel approaches.
- Advice on service user involvement in research and the participation of research users and target audiences so that research is integrated into practice.
- Advice on developing monitoring and evaluation systems that get to the point.
- Outcome focused evaluation advice and support.
- Facilitation and evaluation of action learning.
- Ideas for new methods to promote dialogue amongst partnerships to get people talking about and acting on the issues that matter.
- Capacity building for local community members or staff in new approaches to research and evaluation.
- Facilitation of participatory evaluation of projects and programmes and of action research processes in communities and organisations.
- Mentoring of communities and organisations undertaking research.
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Painting by Fawns Reid, from Imagine Leith |
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