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Story, dialogue and caring about what matters to people: progress towards evidence-enriched policy and practice

Nick Andrews, John Gabbay, Andreé Le-May, Emma Miller, Alison Petch, Martin O’Neill

Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice

Swansea University Author: Nick Andrews

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Evidence-based practice in social care and health is widely promoted.  Making it a reality remains challenging, largely because practitioners generally see practice-based knowledge as more relevant than empirical research. A further challenge regarding the creative, contextual use of research and ot...

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Published in: Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice
ISSN: 1744-2648
Published: Bristol University Press 2020
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description Evidence-based practice in social care and health is widely promoted.  Making it a reality remains challenging, largely because practitioners generally see practice-based knowledge as more relevant than empirical research. A further challenge regarding the creative, contextual use of research and other evidence including lived experience and practice-based knowledge is that practitioners, especially in frontline care services, are often seen not as innovators, but recipients of rules and guidelines or followers of predetermined plans. Likewise, older people are not generally recognised as co-creators of knowledge, learning and development but as passive recipients of care, or objects of research.This paper outlines a participatory action research project which brought together researchers; social care and health practitioners; managers; older people and carers in 6 sites across Wales and Scotland. Working collaboratively, and using a dialogic storytelling approach, they explored and addressed 7 already published research-based ‘Challenges’ regarding what matters most to older people with highsupport needs. Taking a participatory, caring and emergent approach, participants discovered and addressed five elements required in developing evidence- enriched practice; the creation of supportive and relationship-centred research and practice environments; the valuing of diverse types of evidence; the use of engaging narratives to capture and share evidence; the use of dialogue-based approaches to learning and development; and the recognition and resolution of systemic barriers to development. Although existing literature covers each element, this project was novel in collectively exploring and addressing all five elements together, and in its use of multiple forms of story, which engaged hearts and minds.
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