Research

Karin Silver holds a Masters degree in Social Research at the University of Bath and works on quantitative and qualitative research projects. Her current research interests lie in the areas of community involvement in local service provision (particularly relating to children and families), participatory research with children, and the connections between social inclusion and sustainability, in its broadest sense.

She also has a professional background in language and study skills training, experience in cross-cultural communication, and a first degree in Social Anthropology and Development Studies.

She has also conducted research for local community projects, working in a voluntary capacity.

For more information please contact: k.silver@rkpartnership.co.uk

Current and recent work

Children's Workforce Development Council (Practitioner Led Research Programme 08-09)
'What is our out of school club?' A child-centred approach to understanding the role of an OOSC and integrated working. This piece of participatory research was funded by the CWDC and the report is due to be published on their website in September 2009. Please contact Karin if you would like to see the report before then. A further research project is in development, looking at children's involvement in participatory evaluation.

Evaluation of parenting programme (ask, Wiltshire)
Analysis of data from pre- and post-course questionnaires. Consultancy on questionnaire design and planning of ongoing evaluation.

Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath
Currently employed part-time as Research Development Support Officer for the Centre. Working on the development of the Centre and providing support on a range of social policy related research projects, including extensive literature reviews and data analysis.

Recent publications:
Silver, K, Bauld, L, Warnakulasuriya, S and Day, R (2009) The Experiences of Younger Oral Cancer Patients in Scotland: From Self-diagnosis to Treatment NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; CASP, University of Bath; King's College, London / The Ben Walton Trust ( link to report at University of Bath)

Future conference presentations:
NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2009 (New Researcher's Session)
Childcare policy and implementation: the role of voluntary sector out of school clubs.
University of Warwick, 7th September. See research summaries below, abstract to follow.

Bursaries awarded:
ESRC training bursary for NatCen course in using Framework software for qualitative data analysis (October 2009)

 

Previous projects

TW Welch & Partners
Research consultancy on scoping stage for evaluation of stakeholder engagement process

Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
Employed as contract researcher on research projects mainly in areas relating to work and family, including work-life balance, the ageing workforce, and lone parents and their children.

 

Community research

Evaluation of out of school provision
Collection and analysis of parental survey data for local service (ongoing).

Community arts evaluation
Feedback surveys for community arts project (ongoing).

Community consultation ‘vision’ survey
Design of a qualitative scoping survey for local community consultation, CanPlan.

Voluntary management of out of school childcare, Masters research project
Collection and analysis of quantitative survey data (SPSS), and qualitative interview data (Nvivo).

Summary - quantitative survey

Summary - qualitative study

If you would like to read either of these research project reports in full, please contact k.silver@rkpartnership.co.uk

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