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Aims
The module aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and confidence to identify and present the impact of their research activity. The module will help students to tailor their research findings to academic and practitioner audiences, a process that will involve the students - drawn as they are from professional criminal justice backgrounds - working together to peer review and discuss generated research data. The module will be assessed by senior professionals from the criminal justice sector so the module's curriculum will help advance students' ability to make qualified claims from their research, to contextualise their data within the broader context of work in the field, and to offer sharp practice relevant commentary capable of identifying areas for policy and practice development.
Learning Outcomes
Module Content
Progressing generated research data;
- exploring research project's claims of representativeness
- identifying comparable examples of best/good practice
- identifying target audiences and stakeholders
- the ethics and politics of publishing research
Writing and presenting for practitioner audiences;
- identifying and stakeholders and service user groups in criminal justice
- contextualising and qualifying claims
- critical reflection from senior decision and policy makers within criminal justice
- innovative ways to engage end users
Writing and presenting for academic audiences;
- identifying academic service user groups
- the importance of peer reviewing
- journal selection and article submission processes
- critical reflection from research-active academics
- the capacity of research to cross disciplines
Developing projects to an advanced level
- emerging research questions
- identifying future collaborators
- identifying funding sources
- building presentation confidence
This course, designed with 'in-service' criminal justice professionals in mind, aims to develop students' confidence to develop their research data and to direct key messages into academic and practitioner audiences. Having completed a piece of self-directed study the module develops students' ability to translate the findings into learning and outcomes that can positively contribute to knowledge and advance the practice setting. With a strong emphasis on peer review and working with fellow criminal justice professionals the emphasis on identifying clear recommendations and contextualising emerging research data within current research and practice thinking will help students produce outputs ready for decision and policy makers within the sector. The module combines with those completed earlier in the course to help advance students' credentials as evidence-informed practitioners.