Dates: 1 March 2018 - 31 August 2018
Funder: NIHR School for Social Care Research
Project description
Recruitment to almost any research study is a challenge, but there appear to be particular issues besetting social care research: difficulty in getting enough people or providers into empirical studies. One is the reluctance of service providers (across a number of sectors) to agree to participate in research. Another is the uncertainty around research governance processes in local authorities (and perhaps elsewhere) which can make it hard for researchers to get "purchase" on where the difficulties might be arising. There is also the distance between academic researchers and research settings (and the service users they support) which compares unfavourably, for example, to the situation in healthcare where there are many professionals with joint academic-clinical appointments. There is less infrastructural support for social care research than health research, even if the position might now be beginning to change. This scoping study is exploring these and other potential causes of recruitment difficulties.
Methods
The study team will explore the literature and set-up discussions with researchers and key non-academic individuals to inform this scoping review.
Further project information
Principal Investigator at LSE: Professor Martin Knapp
CPEC Research team: Jose-Luis Fernandez
Countries: England
Keywords: recruitment, social care research
Contact
Martin Knapp
m.knapp@lse.ac.uk