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Yaffe, Joanne – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
McBeath and Austin define the concept of research-minded practitioners, describe the organizational contexts, structures, and strategies for supporting this type of practitioner. Further, the authors propose a research agenda to establish effective organizational development strategies to support research-minded practitioners, align their efforts…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Organizational Development, Profiles, Evidence
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McBeath, Bowen; Austin, Michael J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
If some practitioners are more research minded than others, then promising approaches for bridging the research to practice gap may be developed by describing research-minded practitioners and examining how to locate and support them. This article follows this basic logic in providing an overview of organizational development and practitioner…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Theories, Organizational Climate, Research Utilization
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Nutley, Sandra; Walter, Isabel; Davies, Huw T. O. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
This article draws on both a cross-sector literature review of mechanisms to promote evidence-based practice and a specific review of ways of improving research use in social care. At the heart of the article is a discussion of three models of evidence-based practice: the research-based practitioner model, the embedded research model, and the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Inferences, Research Utilization, Evaluation Utilization