Mike Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9844-3904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Research End-User Perspectives about Using Social Work Research in Policy and Practice
Research funding and assessment initiatives that foster engagement between researchers and research end-users have been adopted by governments in many countries. They aim to orient research towards achieving measurable impacts that improve economic and social well-being beyond academia. This has long been regarded as important in social work research, as it has in many fields of applied research. This study examined research engagement and impact…
Australian Social Work Research: An Empirical Study of Engagement and Impact
Internationally, non-academic research impact is assessed by governments as part of evaluating the quality of publicly funded research. A case study method was used to investigate the non-academic impact of Australian social work research. Interviews were conducted with fifteen leading researchers about outputs (research products, such as publications and reports), engagement (interaction between researchers and end-users outside academia to tran…
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
A Comparative Study of Australian Social Work Research
The quality and quantity of social work research are not simply a matter of academic inquiry; they have real-world implications for practitioners, policy makers and the community. Internationally, research assessment exercises being undertaken in university sectors are shaping notions of research productivity, quality and impact. This paper advances empirical understandings of the nature of social work research in Australia, through an inter-disc…
The Social Care Institute for Excellence and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: Table 1
This paper reviews the lessons for evidence-based policy and practice (EBP) arising from the work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), a government-funded agency established in 2001 to improve social care in the UK. The paper describes a ten-year programme developing an inclusive approach to what counts as knowledge, and the challenges in ensuring that knowledge is relevant to improving practice in social work and social care. Thes…
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice
Journal Article Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Get access Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice, Martin Webber (ed.), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. i–xxv + 261, ISBN 978–1–137–27610–0 (pb), £23.99 Mike Fisher Mike Fisher Professor of Evidence-Based Social Work and Director of the Institute of Applied Social Research, University of Bedfordshire, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
The Development of Problem-Solving Knowledge for Social Care Practice
The continuing modernization of social care in the UK has placed a high premium on evidence. However, there is a lack of investment in social care research in general, and in practice-based research in particular. The paper argues that there is a need to make better connections between research and practice if there are to be substantial improvements in services. The implications of these improved links include more efficient translation of resea…
Older Migrants and Social Care in Austria
Care Management and Social Work: Clients with Dementia
In the first of two papers examining the implications for social work of the introduction of care management, it is argued that practice with clients with dementia will provide a major test of the underlying principle of cons umerism. Using the findings from a research project established to develop partnership in social services work, the paper shows that existing social work practice will need to be rethought in several key areas if the client'…
Care Management and Social Work: Working with Carers
This second paper on care management and social work examines the ways in which practice can reflect the special circumstances of carers. Using the findings from a research project established to develop partnership in social services work, it is argued that social work values, skills and techniques provide the core elements of a care management approach, but that further work is needed to develop a practice which fully reflects the principle of …
Mental health and the relatives of social work clients
This paper farms part of a continuing analysis of data from a project which is investigating the role of social services in community mental health. It focuses on a sub-sample of social work cases where clients were supported by relatives. Factors which are associated with the psychological distress found among relatives and which should underpin social work assessment are examined. This is followed by an investigation of how much help is current…
Recognition of mental health problems by doctors and social workers
The paper reports on the early findings of a project which is investigating the role of the social services in community mental health. The General Health Questionnaire and a scale to detect dementia were used to estimate the prevalence of mental health problems among people in contact with the social services. The proportion of people with such problems ranges between 35.2% and 52.2% depending on where the boundary is drawn between mental health…
Negotiating Child Care: The Experiences of Workers and Clients
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
The Social Care Institute for Excellence and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: Table 1
This paper reviews the lessons for evidence-based policy and practice (EBP) arising from the work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), a government-funded agency established in 2001 to improve social care in the UK. The paper describes a ten-year programme developing an inclusive approach to what counts as knowledge, and the challenges in ensuring that knowledge is relevant to improving practice in social work and social care. Thes…
Older Migrants and Social Care in Austria
Negotiating Child Care: The Experiences of Workers and Clients
A Comparative Study of Australian Social Work Research
The quality and quantity of social work research are not simply a matter of academic inquiry; they have real-world implications for practitioners, policy makers and the community. Internationally, research assessment exercises being undertaken in university sectors are shaping notions of research productivity, quality and impact. This paper advances empirical understandings of the nature of social work research in Australia, through an inter-disc…
The Development of Problem-Solving Knowledge for Social Care Practice
The continuing modernization of social care in the UK has placed a high premium on evidence. However, there is a lack of investment in social care research in general, and in practice-based research in particular. The paper argues that there is a need to make better connections between research and practice if there are to be substantial improvements in services. The implications of these improved links include more efficient translation of resea…
Australian Social Work Research: An Empirical Study of Engagement and Impact
Internationally, non-academic research impact is assessed by governments as part of evaluating the quality of publicly funded research. A case study method was used to investigate the non-academic impact of Australian social work research. Interviews were conducted with fifteen leading researchers about outputs (research products, such as publications and reports), engagement (interaction between researchers and end-users outside academia to tran…
Care Management and Social Work: Working with Carers
This second paper on care management and social work examines the ways in which practice can reflect the special circumstances of carers. Using the findings from a research project established to develop partnership in social services work, it is argued that social work values, skills and techniques provide the core elements of a care management approach, but that further work is needed to develop a practice which fully reflects the principle of …
Negotiating Child Care: The Experiences of Workers and Clients
Recognition of mental health problems by doctors and social workers
The paper reports on the early findings of a project which is investigating the role of the social services in community mental health. The General Health Questionnaire and a scale to detect dementia were used to estimate the prevalence of mental health problems among people in contact with the social services. The proportion of people with such problems ranges between 35.2% and 52.2% depending on where the boundary is drawn between mental health…
Mental health and the relatives of social work clients
This paper farms part of a continuing analysis of data from a project which is investigating the role of social services in community mental health. It focuses on a sub-sample of social work cases where clients were supported by relatives. Factors which are associated with the psychological distress found among relatives and which should underpin social work assessment are examined. This is followed by an investigation of how much help is current…
Care Management and Social Work: Clients with Dementia
In the first of two papers examining the implications for social work of the introduction of care management, it is argued that practice with clients with dementia will provide a major test of the underlying principle of cons umerism. Using the findings from a research project established to develop partnership in social services work, the paper shows that existing social work practice will need to be rethought in several key areas if the client'…
Care Management and Social Work: Working with Carers
This second paper on care management and social work examines the ways in which practice can reflect the special circumstances of carers. Using the findings from a research project established to develop partnership in social services work, it is argued that social work values, skills and techniques provide the core elements of a care management approach, but that further work is needed to develop a practice which fully reflects the principle of …
Older Migrants and Social Care in Austria
The Development of Problem-Solving Knowledge for Social Care Practice
The continuing modernization of social care in the UK has placed a high premium on evidence. However, there is a lack of investment in social care research in general, and in practice-based research in particular. The paper argues that there is a need to make better connections between research and practice if there are to be substantial improvements in services. The implications of these improved links include more efficient translation of resea…
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice
Journal Article Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Get access Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice, Martin Webber (ed.), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. i–xxv + 261, ISBN 978–1–137–27610–0 (pb), £23.99 Mike Fisher Mike Fisher Professor of Evidence-Based Social Work and Director of the Institute of Applied Social Research, University of Bedfordshire, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
The Social Care Institute for Excellence and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: Table 1
This paper reviews the lessons for evidence-based policy and practice (EBP) arising from the work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), a government-funded agency established in 2001 to improve social care in the UK. The paper describes a ten-year programme developing an inclusive approach to what counts as knowledge, and the challenges in ensuring that knowledge is relevant to improving practice in social work and social care. Thes…
A Comparative Study of Australian Social Work Research
The quality and quantity of social work research are not simply a matter of academic inquiry; they have real-world implications for practitioners, policy makers and the community. Internationally, research assessment exercises being undertaken in university sectors are shaping notions of research productivity, quality and impact. This paper advances empirical understandings of the nature of social work research in Australia, through an inter-disc…
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
Research End-User Perspectives about Using Social Work Research in Policy and Practice
Research funding and assessment initiatives that foster engagement between researchers and research end-users have been adopted by governments in many countries. They aim to orient research towards achieving measurable impacts that improve economic and social well-being beyond academia. This has long been regarded as important in social work research, as it has in many fields of applied research. This study examined research engagement and impact…
Australian Social Work Research: An Empirical Study of Engagement and Impact
Internationally, non-academic research impact is assessed by governments as part of evaluating the quality of publicly funded research. A case study method was used to investigate the non-academic impact of Australian social work research. Interviews were conducted with fifteen leading researchers about outputs (research products, such as publications and reports), engagement (interaction between researchers and end-users outside academia to tran…
Political science (13 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (11 works) · Social Work (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social science (6 works)