Cameron, Claire and Koslowski, Alison and Lamont, Alison and Moss, Peter (Eds).
(2023)
Social research for our times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future.
[Book].
UCL Press: UK.
(In press).
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social research for our times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future |
| ISBN: | 9781800084032 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084032 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084032 |
| Publisher version: | https://10.14324/111.9781800084032 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Cameron, C., Koslowski, A., Lamont, A. and Moss, P. (eds.) 2023. Social Research for our Times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084032 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | social policy, social research, policy-informed research, early childhood, children’s services, children, young people, families, relationships, gender, inequalities, migration, methodology, methods, institutional biography, social pedagogy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180526 |
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