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WELCOME TO THE RESEARCH CENTRE AT CITY COLLEGE NORWICH

The Research Centre is situated under Innovation and Partnerships at City College Norwich and provides a research and evaluation service both externally and internally, whilst also supporting the College and its staff in many other ways too. Since its inception, The Research Centre has secured over £1.67million from external funding for research into educational foci and evaluation projects.

We welcome your comments on this website. Any comments that help us to improve the site, making it a focal point and one stop shop for those involved and interested in research within the FE sector.

If you work within the College and are interested in conducting a research project then we can help you with your project from proposal to print (P2P), please see the Proposal to Print page (P2P) for more information.

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Action Research Poll

How confident are you in understanding Action Research?

Posted Wed, 22/04/2009 - 1:19pm by jdawe

Very Confident

50% (1 vote)

Confident

0% (0 votes)

Slightly Confident

50% (1 vote)

Not at all Confident

0% (0 votes)

Total votes: 2

Latest Bulletin

Volume 6 Number 2

Date: October 2008

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Latest Report

A qualitative baseline report on the perceptions of public engagement in University of East Anglia academic staff

Year: 2008

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Recent Projects

New forum topics

Understanding and using an outcomes focus Training Course

Posted Thu, 14/05/2009 - 3:20pm

How much do you know about the effects of your organisation’s work?
Would you like to know more about outcomes?
Are your funders asking about outcomes monitoring?
If so, you’ll be interested in this free* training course for voluntary and community organisations.

Learn how to assess your effectiveness
Learn about what works, to improve your services.
Increase morale for staff and users by showing that change is happening.
Demonstrate to funders that you are making a difference.

The Research Centre, City College Norwich is running a free* two-day course at Wensum Lodge, Norwich:

Friday 7^th August 2009
Friday 4^th September 2009

Free SOUL Training for Polish and Portuguese support workers

Posted Fri, 29/05/2009 - 12:12pm

The Research Centre at City College Norwich has been successful in bidding for funding from The Big Lottery Fund to widen the availability and accessibility of The SOUL Record™; a toolkit to measure soft outcomes.

The Research Centre is looking to recruit up to 10 key voluntary sector personnel across Norfolk to receive free SOUL Record™ User training in return for commitment to the project in ensuring the translated SOUL Record™ documents are valid and suitable for purpose.

For further information or to express your interest in taking part in the project, please contact The Research Centre, City College Norwich on 01603 773464 or via thesoulrecord@ccn.ac.uk

SOUL Record Training Sessions 2009

Posted Mon, 05/01/2009 - 12:21pm

29th July 2009 - Bedfordshire

20th August 2009 - Norwich

Conference 9th July 2009, Birmingham - Strategically Measure Impacts & Outcomes

Posted Fri, 29/05/2009 - 1:03pm

Our Co-ordinator for SOUL is to be one of the guest speakers at this conference.

A One-Day Children & Young People Now Conference
09 July, Second City Suite, Birmingham
www.measuringoutcomes.co.uk

Higher Education in Further Education (HE in FE) Support for Institutions

Posted Tue, 26/05/2009 - 9:00am

Higher Education in Further Education (HE in FE)

Our Higher Education in Further Education (HE in FE) Enhancement Programme supports further education colleges offering higher education programmes.

Further Information can be found on the website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/institutions/heinfe

DCSF Plans for 3 new Research Centres

Posted Thu, 21/05/2009 - 9:13am

DCSF has published a document setting out plans for 3 new research centres and invites organisations to express interest in bidding for them.

The document sets out the goals and functions and outlines the thematic coverage of the 3 individual centres. The role we see for centres emphasises close engagement with both analysts and policy-makers in the Department and the ability of centres to draw upon wider evidence and expertise, as well as their own knowledge and work programme. The closing date for receipt of initial expressions of interest is Friday June 19th. From within the set of expressions received, a small number of organisations will be invited to submit full tenders for individual centres. Those tender invitations will be sent out before the end of June.