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Research, Policy and Practice – Worlds Apart?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2004

Louise Locock  and
Annette Boaz
Louise Locock
Affiliation:
DIPEx Research Group, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford E-mail: louise.locock@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
Annette Boaz
Affiliation:
ESRC Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice Queen Mary, University of London
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Abstract

The relationship between research, policy and practice remains a contested area. This article explores pressures for researchers to make their work more useful and relevant to policy and practice, and for practitioners to undertake research. Whilst there are clearly areas of mutual interest and benefit, we argue that the research, policy and practice communities also have distinct traditions, skills and obligations which should be recognised and valued rather than artificially suppressed. Narrow conceptions of research utility constrain the debate about what each community has to offer and how best to communicate with each other across borders.

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Articles
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 375 - 384
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© Cambridge University Press 2004

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