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Training in Pragmatic Social Interventions: Problems, Promises and Protocols

  • Start date: 01 January 2006
  • End date: 31 December 2007

The purpose of this project is to provide sustainable and appropriately critical training in the rigorous evaluation of social interventions. We include here controlled trials, natural experiments, and design studies. The intended audience includes research students, novice researchers, mid-career researchers, policy-makers, and research trainers. Training and development activities will be held regionally, within the north of England, but participants from throughout the UK will be encouraged. Activities include face-to-face and residential workshops, debates, internet discussions, web-based resources, published protocols in downloadable form, and methodological papers. The training resources will be maintained on-line for at least two years following the end of the project.

Among our objectives are to:

  • Increase collaboration between social scientists in order to make trials larger and more ecologically valid;
  • Explore specific methodological issues relating to the feasibility, ethics, conduct, analysis and reporting of such research designs;
  • Create a trials methods study group to provide a professional base for researchers with interests in trials that cross interdisciplinary boundaries;
  • Increase awareness and debate among policy makers, practitioners and academics on ways to maximise the impact of trial evidence on policy and practice.
  • Outputs (31)
Top trial tips

Author: Stephen Gorard Date: 18 March 2010 Other output

Grant holder

Professor Stephen Gorard

Programme name

None

Co - applicants

Professor Carole Torgerson

Grant amount

£117,508.82

Grant reference

PTA-035-25-0006

Institution

University of York

Discipline

Education

Grant type

Research Grant