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community justice sectors Know how research can be used to: Improve service delivery Test and review existing knowledge Explore social trends and influence policy making Be able to give examples of each of areas. Using the ONS website, investigate crime rates in the local area. Ask students to present a one side summary of their findings (this could link to the difference between qualitative and quantitative data). Using any newspaper reports on recent pieces of research from the sectors, consider what implications the findings may have for service users and service delivery. 3.8.2 Methods Learn about the following primary methods: Survey method using an interview include the structured interview with a prepared schedule of items and the unstructured, e.g. clinical interview Advantages of this method in studying beliefs, attitudes and feelings Advantages of structured interviews in enabling comparisons and statistical generalisations to be made Advantages of unstructured interviews, including access to qualitative data Limitations of both techniques including risk of interviewer bias and inability to reveal cause-effect links Survey method using a questionnaire Survey Unstructured interview Clinical interview Structured interview Semi-structured interview Interview schedule Items Watch an episode of a chat show such as Graham Norton or Jonathan Ross. Use this to illustrate an unstructured interview approach. Consider why this is appropriate in this context (advantages). Consider in what circumstances this approach would not be useful. Students to prepare a schedule of items for an interview with another student. This could be on a topic pre-selected by the teacher. Ensure that there is “Research Methods in Health, Social and Early Years Care” by Sandy Green. Nelson Thornes. “AQA A2 Health and Social Care” by Richard Smithson. Philip Allan Updates. “Researching Health” DVD. Classroom Video Limited. “An Introduction to Sociology” by Ken Browne
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