Recommendations for Establishing and Maintaining Successful Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations

• NCJ Number: 192247
• Author(s): Vera E. Mouradian; Mindy B. Mechanic; Linda M. Williams
• Date Published: 2001
• Length: 18 pages
• Grant Number(s): U49/CCU415877
• Sponsoring Agency: Ctr's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Corporate Author: National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Ctr
• Sale Source: National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Ctr
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report presents recommendations in establishing and implementing successful collaborations between researchers and practitioners to enhance the response to violence against women.

Abstract

In 1999, the National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center (NVAWPRC) conducted focus groups with victim advocates, practitioners, and researchers. The objective was to examine how these groups could work together effectively and develop quality and practical research on violence against women. This report provides recommendations for the establishing and maintaining of successful researcher and practitioner partnerships. The report presents specific components of a successful partnership that include: understanding why collaboration is successful, characteristics of successful collaborative relationships, initiating collaborations and establishing goals for research on prevention of violence against women, the adequacy of the research, ethics, confidentiality and safety, dissemination of findings, a memorandum of understanding, and seeking funding support for collaborations. Recommendations and tips were presented on how to make collaboration work, assessing the qualifications of researchers, and identifying practitioner collaborators. Appendix