Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 1/49 - Good Evidence: A guide to help community…

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 2/49 - Acknowledgements

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 3/49 - Contents

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 4/49 - Choosing research methods

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 5/49 - Introduction

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biased, because it is seen as having been carried out solely to further the specific interests of the organisation.

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Although we have set the process out as linear, it can be more cyclical, or iterative. You may find that as you move through the stages you loop back on yourself, making changes and refining your research process as you go along. For example, you may begin analysis and find you need to collect more data, or you may refine your research question after looking at data collected through early interviews. For this reason we recommend you scan the guide as a whole before you use it as a reference to dip in and out of as you go along with your research project

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 8/49 - 1 Bell, K. (Ed.) (2013). Open education …

1 Bell, K. (Ed.) (2013). Open education sociology dictionary. [online] s.v. Research. Available at: https://sociologydictionary.org/research More recent editions of this are available to buy online or in print 2 Wilkinson, S., Bonetree, C. and Berry, H. (2020). The value of small community-led equalities research projects. [online] Manchester: Ambition for Ageing. Available at: https://www.ambitionforageing.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Value%20of%20small%20Commu nity-led%20Equalites%20Research.pdf 3 ARVAC, (n.d.). Community Research Toolkit [online] Available at: https://arvac.org.uk/resources/ 4 Mcleod, R. and Noble, J. (2016). Listen and Learn: How charities can use qualitative research.[online] London: New Philanthropy Capital. Available at: https://www.thinknpc.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/07/Listen-and-learn_Qualitative-research_Final1.pdf 5 Denscombe, M. (2010). The Good Research Guide for small-scale social research projects. [online] 4th ed. London: Open University Press. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=582a0dbf217e20276533f5a5&assetKey=A S:428404664213506@1479151039119 (NB More recent editions of this are available to buy online or in print) 6 Pain, R., Whitman, G., Milledge, D and Lune Rivers Trust (n.d.) Participatory Action Research Toolkit: An introduction to using PAR as an Approach to to Learning, Research and Action [online] Durham: Durham University & Lune Rivers Trust. Available at: https://www.durham.ac.uk/media/durhamuniversity/research-/research-centres/social-justice-amp-community-action-centrefor/documents/toolkits-guides-and-case-studies/Participatory-Action-Research-Toolkit.pdf

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 9/49 - Part 1: Three Core Concepts

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 10/49 - Criteria

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This table was adapted from table 2 of criteria and strategies for trustworthiness in this paper8.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 12/49 - 2. ETHICS

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For more on ethics reviews see the Planning Your Research Project section.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 14/49 - 3. BIAS

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sampling, and experimental design18 in The Good Research Guide to Small Scale Social Research Projects. The channels you use for recruitment can also introduce bias, for example using digital surveys may exclude individuals and groups of people

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A study finds that people who visit green spaces more frequently report better mental health than those who

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This report discusses the assumption of bias as one of the barriers in service user controlled research20

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 18/49 - Part II: Stages of the Research Process

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 19/49 - Is it worth it?

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 20/49 - 21 ARVAC, (n.d.). Community Research Too…

21 ARVAC, (n.d.). Community Research Toolkit: Why Do Community Research? [online] https://arvac.org.uk/community-research-toolkit/why-do-community-research/

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 21/49 - 2. DESIGNING A RESEARCH PROJECT

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 22/49 - Choosing your research approach

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If you are working with an academic partner they may lead on the literature review,

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Types of qualitative research and questions:

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Ambition for Ageing wanted to find out more from under researched marginalised communities about what was important to them about ageing in their localities. They devised a broad exploratory research question to call for research proposals

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Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 27/49 - 3. Inform participants about the fact th…

3. Inform participants about the fact that their participation is voluntary and their right to withdraw from the research project.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 28/49 - skills and tools you may need to analyse…

skills and tools you may need to analyse can be carried out when selecting your methods.

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How do you involve the right participants?

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 30/49 - Think about how you will share the resea…

Think about how you will share the research findings

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 31/49 - 4. COLLECTING DATA

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 32/49 - you or anyone else to go back to it at a…

you or anyone else to go back to it at a later date and understand what was collected, how it was collected, who from, when, and why. You need to ensure that raw data, i.e. the knowledge collected from participants, is collected, processed and stored in a way that preserves all the information, including metadata (descriptions of the data) that will be necessary for analysis. It should be labelled in a way that anonymises the participants. This guide has a good chapter on data management and storage58. Spending time preparing data for storage also provides an opportunity to reflect on what you gathered. This can help you to identify new lines of inquiry, build a gradual understanding of what the research is uncovering, and formulate emerging findings.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 33/49 - 5. ANALYSIS

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 34/49 - information collected from different par…

information collected from different participants? Can you see any patterns or contradictions in the data? What do these tell you about the issues you set out to explore? Reflecting on these questions will show that you have thought about your data and how it helps you answer your initial research questions. In the Good Research Guide to Small Scale Social Research Projects the introduction to the analysis section expands on the differences between description, interpretation and explanation62.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 35/49 - 6. PRESENTING YOUR FINDINGS

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Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 37/49 - 7. DISSEMINATION

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 38/49 - This list has been adapted and updated f…

This list has been adapted and updated from this factsheet on research dissemination68.

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 39/49 - AND FINALLY

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 40/49 - Appendix

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 41/49 - Analysis (p.33) Developing a systematic…

Analysis (p.33) Developing a systematic data analysis process Documenting your analysis processes and choices Deciding on how to interpret, describe or explain what you find

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 42/49 - Glossary

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 43/49 - Ethics External audit Fieldwork Findings

Ethics External audit Fieldwork Findings

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 44/49 - Paradigm Participants Peer debrief and s…

Paradigm Participants Peer debrief and support

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 45/49 - Researcher positionality Sample

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 46/49 - References

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 47/49 - Denscombe, M. (2010). The Good Research …

Denscombe, M. (2010). The Good Research Guide for small-scale social research projects. [online] 4th ed. London: Open University Press. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=582a0dbf217e20276533f5a5&assetKey=A S:428404664213506@1479151039119

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 48/49 - Health Available at: https://www.iwh.on.…

Health Available at: https://www.iwh.on.ca/sites/iwh/files/iwh/tools/what_researchers_mean_by_2017.pdf

Good Evidence - A guide to help community organisations produce research that gets taken seriously.pdf - page 49/49 - Urquart, C., Chun Lam, L.M., Cheuk, B. a…

Urquart, C., Chun Lam, L.M., Cheuk, B. and Dervin, B.L. (2019). Sense-Making/Sensemaking. [online] Oxfordbibliographies.com. Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0112.xml Wilkinson, S., Bonetree, C. and Berry, H. (2020). The value of small community-led equalities research projects. [online] Manchester: Ambition for Ageing. Available at: https://www.ambitionforageing.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Value%20of%20small%20Commu nity-led%20Equalites%20Research.pdf