Remember registration deadline 1. December 2024 for the NORWEL-PhD-course: Making social work research relevant: Stakeholder engagement, research realities and policy influence

Remember registration deadline 1. December 2024 for the NORWEL-PhD-course:

Making social work research relevant: Stakeholder engagement, research realities and policy influence

Want to learn how to enhance the impact of your research? This is the course for you!

The course will be held 1. to 3. April 2025 at UiT in Tromsø.

Apply for this course here: Søking og opptak | UiT.

The course code is SVF-8067.

You find more info at: https://norwel.no/arrangementer/ph-d-course-making-social-work-research-relevant-stakeholder-engagement-research-realities-and-policy-influence/

The course is credited with 5 ECTS in your PhD, provided you submit an essay between 4000 – 6000 words.

In your essay you are encouraged to evaluate critically the contribution of your research to the practice field and/or to reflect on making the results of your research relevant for policy makers.

Here is the program:

	Tuesday 1. April 2025	Wednesday 2. April 2025	Thursday 3. April 2025
09.15 – 10.00	Welcome and introduction to the course Part 1: Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders Getting access to the field – identifying gate keepers Prof. Walter Schönfelder (UiT, Norway)	Part 2: Practice oriented research Researcher experiences with designing research with practice relevance in NAV – collaboration between researchers and practitioners Prof. emer. Edgar Marthinsen (NTNU, Norway)	Part I3: Making an impact on welfare policy and practice field Dissemination of research results Prof. emer, Vishanthie Sewpaul (UKZN, South Africa)
10.15 – 11.00	Identifying stakeholder interests – discourses, power and powerlessness Prof. emer. Bob Lonne (UNE, Australia)	Possibilities and constraints for practice-oriented researchProf. Lars Uggerhøj (Aalborg University, Denmark)	Setting the agenda – How to write a policy brief Prof. emer, Vishanthie Sewpaul (UKZN, South Africa)
Lunch
12.00 – 12.45	Developing effective relationships with stakeholders Prof. emer. Bob Lonne (UNE, Australia)	Problem solving common challenges and realities that impact research Prof. emer. Bob Lonne (UNE, Australia)	Workshop: Transforming a research dissertation into a policy brief
13.00 – 14.00	Paper discussion	Paper discussion
14.15 – 15.00	Paper discussion	Paper discussion	Summing up & evaluation

The course is credited with 5 ECTS in your PhD, provided that you submit an essay between 4000 – 6000 words.

In your essay you are encouraged to evaluate critically the contribution of your research to the practice field and/or to reflect on making the results of your research relevant for policy makers.

Remember registration deadline 1. December 2024!

See you in April!