{"id":234,"date":"2024-02-08T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/?p=234"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:23:11","slug":"locating-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/finding\/locating-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Locating research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Research can be accessed directly by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Sites designed to give schools and teachers access to research and research summaries such as: Education Endowment Foundation, Mesh Guides, etc.<br><br>\u2022 Following individual researchers and research centres<br><br>\u2022 Subject and professional associations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/chartered.college\/\">Chartered College of Teaching<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/englishassociation.ac.uk\/\">The English Association<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nate.org.uk\/\">National Association for the Teaching of English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/literacytrust.org.uk\/\">National Literacy Trust<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukla.org\/\">UK Literacy Association<\/a><br><br>\u2022 Using search engines including those designed specifically to access research, e.g. Google Scholar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>No organisation, individual or association is neutral. This means that the research-informed insights they provide is likely to be partial. This does not mean that the insights offered are not useful. Rather it means that other research may offer different insights. This is one reason why it is useful to juxtapose research from different sources and which draw on different research methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-custom-colour-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-80874296ff55c32e7e7e8f61062f486d\"><strong>Some questions <a href=\"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/introduction\/how-to-use-the-resources\/\">to consider<\/a><\/strong> <strong>while accessing different research sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2022 Who are the advocates of this research?<br><br>\u2022 On what basis do they recommend it?<br><br>\u2022 What might be their commitments and interests?<br><br>\u2022 How credible are they \u2013 how do I know?<br><br>\u2022 What other research might be out there that could speak to this issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research can be accessed directly by: \u2022 Sites designed to give schools and teachers access to research and research summaries such as: Education Endowment Foundation, Mesh Guides, etc. \u2022 Following individual researchers and research centres \u2022 Subject and professional associations such as Chartered College of Teaching, The English Association, National Association for the Teaching of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-basic-page","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/researchconversations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}