Growing research in practice: A collection of resources

Abstract

introduction 0.1 What is Growing Research In Practice? Growing Research In Practice (GRIP) has consisted of an experimental programme of workshops and mentoring to eight (initially nine) groups of practitioner researchers in social services across the Auckland region of New Zealand. Funded by the Families Commission and SPEaR (Social Policy Evaluation and Research Fund of the Ministry of Social Development) and by the ASB Trust in partnership with the ANZASW (Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Work) it was the brainchild initially of Neil Lunt (then Massey University, now University of York) and Christa Fouché (Massey University) in 2005, who were shortly joined by Liz Beddoe and Phil Harington of Auckland University. ...