Practitioner research made easier: A report on the GRIP project

Beddoe, Liz; Yates, Deborah H; Fouché, Christa; Harington, Phil

doi:10.11157/anzswj-vol22iss2id197

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“…In general, social workers in practice struggle to find the time and confidence to engage with research (Beddoe et al 2010;Pain 2011;Goel et al 2018), with a value conflict inherent in organisational culture surrounding research in practice (Shannon 2013). This is particularly true for hospital-based social workers, immersed in a quantitative research culture, dominated by medical and nursing colleagues and driven by evidence-based methodologies (Beddoe et al 2007).…”

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Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in Everyday Hospital Social Work: A Personal Narrative of Practitioner–Researcher Identity Transition

Fox

2019

Social Sciences

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The story of my evolution as a practice-based collaborative researcher is a story that comes full circle. Through exploring my own experiences of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma as a hospital-based social worker, I am able to investigate the phenomenon across the profession and provide a critique of the needs of practitioners working in the complex environment of hospitals and health care. Parallel to this is an investigation into the need for practice research in this complex environment and in the profession overall as seen through the lens of a collaborative research partnership with social work hospital colleagues that transformed my approach to research. I have drawn on personal narrative, autoethnography and reflexive processing to investigate my own impact on and from this research. I conclude with an understanding of the power of storytelling in participatory action research and in the potential in collaborative research methodologies for authentic reciprocity and relationship to traverse the practice–research divide.

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Section: My Identity As a Social Work Researchermentioning

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Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in Everyday Hospital Social Work: A Personal Narrative of Practitioner–Researcher Identity Transition

Fox

2019

Social Sciences

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“…The dominance of the medical model in a hospital setting can challenge the social workers’ professional identity and claims to validity (Beddoe, 2013), highlighted in the shared research space where social work is partnering with other disciplines on research projects (Joubert, 2006). The prevalence of evidence-based practice in the health context has largely left social work practitioners asserting that forms of knowledge that align with social work ways of being, or ways of communicating, and engaging with vulnerable peoples are relegated or deemed invalid (Beddoe et al, 2010). This can include the absence of recognition of data or methodologies that emphasise consumer voices and context-driven experiences (Beddoe et al, 2007), creating a clash of values for those social workers wanting to research (Shannon, 2019).…”

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Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach

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Hopkins

Graves

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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Research engagement can support a social work clinician, manager and educator in the complexity of everyday practice however in the hospital setting social workers find themselves challenged by the range of potential research questions and methodologies that do not align with their daily experience, professional values or ways of collaboratively working. Four metropolitan hospitals and a university partner worked together to explore the impact of a collaborative capacity building model on the ability for social workers to engage in research activity. Using a Participatory Action Research framework, the research team identified the elements that contribute to a non-hierarchical and successful research dynamic, as well as the challenges that committing to research activity brings in the clinical role. Through reflecting on and articulating the pracademic, or practitioner-researcher, model used and the dominant values that contribute to social work research this study is transferable to other similarly challenged hospital social work departments and health settings.

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“…ocial workers must understand their responsibility for research and publications (ANZASW, 2013;SWRB 2016), develop "research-mindedness" (Flynn & McDermott, 2016), including being ongoing critical consumers of research evidence that can be incorporated into everyday practice (Gray, Plath, & Webb, 2009), and increasingly, become social work research practitioners (Beddoe, Yates, Fouche, & Harington, 2010). As a social work educator who works alongside students to understand the value of research evidence in decision-making, I found this text helpful and highly recommend it as a resource for students and graduates.…”

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