Social Research for our Times :Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future

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Title

Social Research for our Times :Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future

Subject

Social research & statistics
History of education
Higher & further education, tertiary education
Adult education, continuous learning

Description

For 50 years, researchers at UCL’s Thomas Coram Research Unit have been undertaking ground-breaking policy-relevant social research. Their main focus has been social issues affecting children, young people and families, and the services provided for them. Social Research for our Times brings together different generations of researchers from the Unit to share some of the most important results of their studies. Two sections focus on the main findings and conclusions from research into children and children services, and on family life, minoritised groups and gender. A third is then devoted to the innovative methods that have been developed and used to undertake research in these complex areas. Running through the book is a key strategic question: what should be the relationship between research and policy? Or put another way, what does ‘policy relevant research’ mean? This perennial question has gained new importance in the post-Covid, post-Brexit world that we have entered, making this text a timely intervention for sharing decades of experience. Taking a unique opportunity to reflect on research context as well as research findings, this book will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students and those involved in policy making both in and beyond dedicated research units, and can be read as a whole or sampled for individual standalone chapters.

Creator

Cameron, Claire (editor)
Koslowski, Alison (editor)
Lamont, Alison (editor)
Moss, Peter (editor)

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121590

Publisher

UCL Press

Date

London, 2023

Contributor

Dwi Prihastuti

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Format

pdf

Language

English

Type

textbooks

Identifier

DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800084032

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