One-day Seminar, held at LGA London, 23rd November 2005

This Seminar and Workshops, jointly organised by LARIA and the Local Government Association (LGA), launched the Creating Effective Research Toolkit publication with speakers from local government and the co-author of the Toolkit, Janie Percy-Smith. It was well attended by more than 80 delegates at the LGA Headquarters in Smith Square, London.

If you were unable to attend the Seminar, or would like to view the presentations again, they are available for download as Adobe Acrobat documents ( .pdf ).

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Seminar Report by Bob Cuthill (.doc 34k)

What Makes Local Government Research Effective: Janie Percy-Smith (Independent Researcher) (34k)

Implementing the Toolkit; Examples from Practice: 3 Parallel Workshops: Research Training: Introductory presentation from Kate Bloor (West Sussex CC) (36k) Research Quality and Codes of Conduct: Introductory presentation from Paul Barton (Luton BC) (28k) Research Dissemination: Introductory presentation from Harry Mistry (Leicestershire CC) (36k)

Building an Effective Research Unit: Pete Stratford (Borough of Poole, formerly of Chester City Council) (109k)

Managing Research in Local Government: Bryan Hall (formerly of Cheshire County Council) (215k)

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