Dear Marylynn, I know you are very busy but is this something you might
like to attend?
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Subject: SRA Annual Conference 2004 ~ Making a Difference: Improving the
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Dear list members
You may be interested in this year's annual conference of the Social
Research Association, entitled: 'Making a Difference: Improving the
Impact of Social Research'. It will take place on Wednesday 1 December,
at the Institute of Education in London. A flyer, with the programme
and booking form, is available on our website at:
<http://www.the-sra.org.uk/dates%20for%20your%20dairy.htm>
http://www.the-sra.org.uk/dates%20for%20your%20dairy.htm (see the event
at the bottom of the page).
Details are also below. We hope to see some of you there.
SRA Annual Conference 2004
10:00am, Wednesday 1st December 2004
at the Institute of Education
University of Lond
20 Bedford Way,
London WC1H 0AL
Making a Difference: Improving the Impact of Social Research
Morning
10:00am Social Research Association Annual General Meeting
10.45am Conference opens
Welcome and introduction from the Chair
Ceridwen Roberts, SRA Chair
11:00am Plenary addresses
'How influential is evidence in the formulation of
government policy?'
John Graham, Audit Commission
11.30am 'On the shelf? Dissemination of social research'
Helen Barnard, BMRB, and Anne Harrop, Joseph Rowntree
Foundation
12:00pm Panel discussion and comments and questions from the floor
12.30pm LUNCH
Afternoon
1.30pm Workshops Session A
Workshop 1: Widening Participation
'Accessing the views of harder to reach disabled children and young
people'
Bryony Beresford and Parvaneh Rabiee, SPRU, University of York
'Social research and participatory appraisal'
Duncan Fuller, PEANuT, Northumbria University
Workshop 2: Measuring Performance
'The frontiers of performance in health'
Bobby Duffy, MORI
'Area profiles'
Simon McCullough, Audit Commission
Workshop 3: Resisting Bias
'The life and results of a researcher'
Ruth Gardener, Royal Holloway University of London and NSPCC, and Amanda
Bunn, NSPCC
'The everyday politicisation of evaluation'
Paula Sobiechowska, APU
Workshop 4: Challenging Stereotypes
'Grassroots reality: how older people see it'
Margaret Godel, Oxford Brookes University
'Responding to a challenge posed by "Homeless Don": conducting research
that makes a difference at the coalface'
Sarah Johnsen, Salvation Army
2.30pm Workshops Session B
Workshop 5: Researching Social Control
'Anti-social behaviour policy in the Home Office: guiding the targeting
of resources'
Alison Walker, Home Office
'Action learning and disseminating research findings from the national
evaluation of the Street Warden programme: the challenge of timely and
appropriate feedback'
Sarah Edwards, Matrix, Gemma Penn, ODPM, and Naser Turabi, Matrix
Workshop 6: Disseminating Research
'Assessing the impact of dissemination strategies'
Nick Axford, Dartington Social Research
'Disseminating evaluation evidence: a case study of the evaluation of
Connexions'
Bev Bishop and David Betteley, DfES
Workshop 7: Choosing Communication Media
William Solesbury, Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice, Queen
Mary, University of London
Workshop 8: Using Quotations and Narrative
'What is the impact of verbatim quotations in research reports?'
Anne Corden and Roy Sainsbury, SPRU, University of York
'Evaluation as story telling: the place of narratives in policy
evaluation'
Marian Barnes, Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of
Birmingham
3.30pm TEA
4:00pm Plenary Panel
'How to make an impact'
Waqar Ahmed, Middlesex University
Ivor Gaber, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Barry Sheerman MP (tbc)
5:00pm Conference closes
5.05pm DRINKS RECEPTION
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Juliet Whitworth
Events Sub-committee Chair
Social Research Association
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