Doing social work and social care differently
Approaches and tools
Improvement learning
Leading improvement learning?
Launch of Evidence Search and Summary Service
Need support to find and use evidence to inform practice?
Today, we launch ESSS, our free evidence search and summary service. ESSS will help you find and use evidence from research, practice and experience to inform service improvement and continuous learning.
The service is led by our Knowledge Manager, Lauren Smith, who will be happy to support you with your enquiry.
D-Cards
Difficulties, decisions, deliberations
How action research can help to deliver better services (video)
Creative storyboard
This storyboard (animated video) aims to explain what action research is and how it can help to improve public services. It uses the example of Cedar (Children experiencing domestic abuse recovery) to talk through how action research can be useful and offers some hints and tips for those thinking about undertaking action research themselves.
Creating a culture of innovation
Final report of the Creating a Culture of Innovation project
Report that provides an overview and analysis of activities undertaken by Iriss - insights that have been gathered over the course of the Creating a Culture of Innovation project and a review of literature on encouraging creativity within organisations.
Using evidence to promote positive outcomes for improvement in social work
An East Dunbartonshire Council case study
Evidence-informed performance improvement series
Iriss has published two reports commissioned from the Glasgow School of Social Work on evidence-informed performance improvement.