The results of research can be important in shaping and re-shaping our understandings and assumptions about our work and its effectiveness. But often academic research uses obscure language and is presented in ways that make practitioners lose the will to live. So we’ve been playing around with ways to make research more accessible and have posted three examples on this site.

There’s a video of Daniel King talking about his research into the professionalization of voluntary sector workers; and two articles from John Law and Karel Williams, and from Sarah Langer; the first challenges our ideas about ‘government’ and the second looks at how voluntary groups cope (or not) with the conflicts between external demands from funders and others and their own ideas about their mission and purpose.

We need some feedback to know whether we’ve hit the mark and have produced material that’s interesting and easy to get into. Have a look by hitting the red button on the right (‘Making Research Accessible’).