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Social Care Research Fiona Verity Wales School for Social Care Research, Swansea University

´ The Wales School of Social Care Research will contribute to the sustained coproduction of excellent social care research that informs and enriches social care policy and practice in Wales in order to have a positive impact on people’s well-being across the life course (children, young people and adults).

Dimensions of Social Care Research (Source: Health and Care Research Wales Eligibility for Social Care Funding: Guidelines Protection or social support services Prevention Organisations and and systems promotion Human rights Values Social care Interfaces Life course Improvement Care, Social and support, community personal cohesion assistance National and/ or local policies

Value of social care research Knowledge as power Knowledge for practice Knowledge to create enabling ad supporting environments Credit Kristian Hammerstad (New York Times, MAY 11, 2015)

Social care research ´ ‘health research and social care research are generally different in nature, scale, volume and funding, as well as in the mix of stakeholders, organisational context and range of academic disciplines.’ ´ (Source: UK policy framework for health and social care research , 3.6 2015). Curious Systematic Intentional Comparative Principled Purposeful

Social care methodologies

Values ´ “the involvement of the public in research is about 'research being carried out 'with' or 'by' members of the public rather than 'to', 'about' or 'for' them‘” (SCIE)

Wales School for Social Care Research

Research cultures New ¡knowledge ¡ and informed policy genera8on ¡ and practice • Taking an all-Wales approach Valuing different forms of knowledge • Capacity building • Collaboration • Public engagement • Systems thinking • Leadership ¡for ¡social ¡care ¡ Public engagement research ¡to ¡support ¡ and involvement capacity ¡building ¡

Model of operation

Wales School for Social Care Research Areas of activity ´ 12 Strategy areas ´ Developmental approach ´ Phased and reflection and learning process

References ´ Dodd, S.J. and Epstein, I. (2012) Practice-based research in social work, London: Routledge. ´ Mitchell, F., Shaw, I. and N. Lunt (2008) Practitioner Research in Social Services: a Literature Review , Report prepared for The Institute for Research and Innovation in the Social Services, York University. ´ http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/researchmindedness/ introduction.asp