Interview with Robert Chaskin
Robert Chaskin is Associate Professor/Research
Fellow at Chapin Hall Center for Children, University
of Chicago, USA. He is being interviewed by Robbie Gilligan,
Professor at Children's Research Centre, Trinity College,
Irland.
They discuss child research and child policies:
The challenges of effectively disseminating and promoting
the use of research knowledge in a range of fields (from
health to education to business to social welfare) have
received significant attention over the past few decades,
and interest in solving these problems in ways that
can inform social policy and practice has both grown
and evolved in recent years. Case studies illustrate
this question in concrete ways, focusing on specific
social problems concerning the well-being of children
across a range of national and local contexts. Chaskin
exemplify through key themes and lessons that the case
studies suggest, and considers the relations among them
and the contributions they make to improving theory
and practice. In particular, Chaskin is interested in
the ways in which the cases shed light on how knowledge
is mediated through relationships, the role of multiple
interactions and strategic alliances, the influence
on both micro and macro contexts in conditioning knowledge
development and use, and the range of roles and tools
that researchers and users may play independently and
relation to one another in supporting effective knowledge
development and use.
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