Solutions to embedding evidence

• Judging if research is good/bad – session to support people to judge (removes threat/fear of evidence). Increases appetite for demand

Practitioner research programme

• Start with the end use to practitioners
• Partnership/collaboration
• Leadership/change agents. Commitment to evidence – culture shift
• Internal research review board. Looks at how research can be used etc (similar to an ethics board). There is an application process to determine who supports in terms of access to clients/staff
• Take your research to those who are not opposed – value laden
• Organizational wide approach – philosophy. Learning environment
• Have to change politics to have social impacts