Jackie Reid, Westside Health Authority, Chicago......as in “we are an authority on our own health.”
Examples are:
- 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.
Research for Real has an international network of associates and specialist research and evaluation partners.