Society for Social Work and Research 17th Annual Conference: Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes and Stakeholders

January 16 - 20, 2013

SSRPCB-2

Securing Access and Implementing Research within Local and Global Organizations: Strategies, Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

An integral part of initiating research for best, promising, or evidence-based practice is often securing and navigating organizational settings and engaging sponsors and project stakeholders at various levels within host organizations. This session provides strategies, with examples, on obtaining “buy-in” and gaining and using access to nonprofit, public, for-profit, and international organizational settings, understanding current stages in organizational life cycles, creating and facilitating partnerships and collaborations, enhancing organizational capacities for knowledge management and organizational culture change, and adopting a variety of roles to implement meaningful applied research. The session will also include a discussion of current trends, opportunities, and challenges in effectively leading the research process within complex organizational environments.