The Australian Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (TAISIW) invites you to a seminar on "Producing Social Work and Social Care Research: The Capacity Fix" presented by Visiting Scholar, Dr Elaine Sharland.

This paper reports on some findings from a recent enquiry, undertaken for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, to examine how capacity to generate excellent social work (and social care) research can best be built. In particular it focuses on some of the most contested questions: What kinds of research can best contribute to the knowledge economy for social work and social care, and who should be producing it? What kinds, if any, of hierarchies of evidence or methodology should hold sway? What are the benefits and threats of disciplinarity or interdisciplinarity in this field? And in tough economic times, how best can we use the resources we have and generate more, to maximise the potential for sustainable social work research growth, quality and impact in future?