Continuing Professional Development

To raise awareness of the benefits of practitioners doing research and provide training and development on how to undertake practitioner research.

• 17th Feb – How can we frame a research question?
• 17th March – How to do a focus group?

Run each month by the CMSWTP Research Hub to raise awareness of the benefits of practitioners doing research and provide training and development on how to undertake practitioner research.

• 14th April PRW. Topic – One practitioner’s experience of undertaking research (Helen Jones – Warrington Borough Council) and an introduction to CMSWTP Research Project: A profile of students admitted to the Social Work Degree in the CMSWTP Region (Selwyn Stanley)

Run each month by the CMSWTP Research Hub to raise awareness of the benefits of practitioners doing research and provide training and development on how to undertake practitioner research.

• 19th May PRW. Topic – Analysing Qualitative data: Content analysis (TBC)
  and an introduction to CMSWTP Research Project: What difference does a Parent and/or Connected Carer Participation Group make in local authority child protection, child in need and child looked after social work intervention? What helps or hinders setting up and working with an effective Parent and Connected Carer Participation Group? (Nigel Kelleher- EHU, Helen Lea – LCC, Eoanna Stathopoulos – EHU)

Run each month by the CMSWTP Research Hub to raise awareness of the benefits of practitioners doing research and provide training and development on how to undertake practitioner research.

• 15th June PRW. Topic – Ethical Issues (Rhona O’Brien- LHU) and an introduction to CMSWTP Research Project: What are the frontline practitioners’ experiences of increasing Care Orders at home? (Ciaran Murphy – EHU)

Run each month by the CMSWTP Research Hub to raise awareness of the benefits of practitioners doing research and provide training and development on how to undertake practitioner research.

• 15th July PRW. Topic – How to write up research? (TBC) and an introduction to CMSWTP Research Project: From student to practitioner; race, racism and social work. (Andrea Newman – LJMU and Philomena Harrison – LHU)