Section: Research Student Profiles
Sarah Morton
- Name Sarah Morton
- Organisation
- Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships 23 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh UK EH8 9LN
- s0457199@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- knowledge transfer/exchange,Policy Processes,Institutions and institutional change,Public problems,Partnerships,Feminist Research,women and politics,Evidence-based public health,Family Policy,Family relationship,families
- URL
- http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/morton_sarah
PhD Title
Exploring and Assessing Research Impact
Qualifications
Sarah has an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Stirling and an MSc in Community Education from the University of Edinburgh.
Working Title
Exploring and assessing research impact in the social sciences
Supervisors
Research Interests
Sarah Morton was awarded an ESRC Competition Studentship and, having completed an MSc by Research in Social Policy, she is working with Kay Tisdall and Sandra Nutley (Management School) on how research is used in policy making, with a particular focus on the issue of impact and how it could be said that research has had an impact on a policy or practice area.
This draws on her work at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR),
where she has been taking a lead on making research more accessible, and in building networks of academics, policy makers and practitioners to improve knowledge exchange. Prior to working at CRFR, she held a variety of research and networking posts in the voluntary sector, and taught and conducted research for the Open University. At CRFR, her responsibilities for the communication of research findings enabled her to interact with external audiences including policy makers and practitioners from a range of sectors.
She is interested in all aspects of research use and knowledge to action, particularly those addressing the use of social research, issues of co-production, assessing impact and approaches that recognise complexity.
Publications
Nutley, S., S. Morton, et al. (2010). "Evidence and policy in six European countries: diverse approaches and common challenges." Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 6: 131-144.
Morton,S and Nutley, S (forthcoming) "What next: Getting research into policy and practice" in Jamieson, L., Simpson, R. and Lewis, R. (Eds) (forthcoming) Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process, Palgrave Studies in Family & Intimate Life, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
This page was published on 12 May 2011