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(*) Mandatory fields must be completed before the 'Ready to submit' box can be checked. This option will be greyed-out until all these fields are completed. Checking the 'Ready to submit' box and saving your record will submit it for inclusion on the Research Register and Social Care Online.
| Field name | Comments and examples |
| Local ID | If you have one |
| Registered organisation | Registered details are automatically populated. |
| Department/Unit | Registered details are automatically populated. |
| *Contact | Name and email address. Registered details are automatically populated. |
| *Title of the project | |
| *Abstract | (300 characters max) e.g. Serious case reviews or inquiries take place when there are major concerns about adult protection working or system failures. This scoping study will provide an overview of the numbers and types of such reviews. Analysis of reports, interviews with a sample of those who have undertaken and commissioned them, and interviews with key stakeholders, including service user representatives, will inform the report. Recommendations for advice and guidance about good practice and will enable lessons and messages to be shared. This study will also inform adult protection policy and will outline areas for future research if appropriate. |
| *Aims and objectives | e.g. The primary aims of this analysis were to: 1) Examine the UK prevalence and risk factors associated with different definitions of mistreatment; 2) Examine risk factors in context, that is, with other risk factors taken into account, using multivariate analysis; 3) Use merged data from the Health Survey for England, to explore a wider range of potential risk factors. |
| *Lead supervisor / researcher(s) | Use full names. e.g. Dr Anne Smith, Mr Paul Jones |
| *Lead research organisation (LRO) | Use full name. Add acronym in brackets if it is commonly used. e.g. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| LRO department / unit | Use full name. Add acronym in brackets if it is commonly used. e.g. Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) |
| Other research organisations involved | Add additional research organisations here. Use full name. Add acronym in brackets if it is commonly used. e.g., University of Kent, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) |
| *Lead local authority (LLA) | Use full name of local authority.
e.g. Essex County Council, Barnsley Metropolitan City Council London boroughs should be in the format: Tower Hamlets – London Borough |
| LLA department / unit | Use the full name. Put acronyms in brackets. |
| Other local authorities involved | Add additional local authorities involved. |
| *Main funding body | Use full name of funding body. e.g. Department of Health Policy Research Programme |
| Other funding bodies, where applicable | |
| Budget | |
| *Research status | Use the tick box: current / completed |
| *Start date | dd/mm/yyyy |
| *Estimated or actual end date | dd/mm/yyyy |
| *Research ethics / governance approval | Use the tick boxes: Single/multi case study /Independent ethics review / Independent review of study design and methods /Local governance approval /ADAS approval (multi-site (4+) studies only /Other, please state ..... More than one option can be selected. |
| *Design | Use the tick boxes: Single/multi case study /One-off study Longitudinal survey /Formative (action research) /Quasi-experimental /Experimental /Secondary data analysis/meta analysis /Review of existing research. More than one option can be selected. |
| *Methods | Use the tick boxes: Qualitative only /Quantitative only/ Mixed qualitative and quantitative. Select one option. |
| Methods, description | |
| *User involvement | Use the tick boxes: None /Some in designing the research /Some in managing the research /Some in undertaking the research /Some in analysing the research / Some in disseminating the research /Throughout |
| *Student research | Use the tick boxes: No / Yes (undergraduate) / Yes (post graduate) |
| Main findings | Summary of actual findings or bibliographical details of research outputs. Additional URLs can be put here.- see notes below. |
| Link to research outputs (text) | This for text only. Title or description of the web address or URL provided below. If you have more than one link to your research findings put them in the Main Findings field e.g. Social Care Workforce Research Unit research index |
| Link to research outputs (URL) | Provide one URL for the text given above e.g. to a summary of the research findings or to a website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/scwru/res/atoz.html |
| Ready to submit? | This box can only be ticked once all the mandatory fields have been completed. Ticking the box and saving your record means the project will be submitted for inclusion in the Register. If this box is not ticked it is still possible to save the record, but it will not be sent for 'approval'. |
| Export to? | This box is for SCIE use only. |
| Topics | Topics or key words are used to describe your project. You can add topics from the Social Care Online taxonomy.by clicking on the ‘Add button’ or by directly typing the topic in the field. Note: each topic is separated by a semi-colon and topics are only accepted if they are listed in the taxonomy. View or download the topic list as a PDF file. |