King's College London

The SC-ImpRes (Social Care Implementation Research) guide provides step-by-step guidance on designing and conducting implementation research across social care settings, for example, research relating to a new programme, innovation or a new way of working.

Dr Antonina Semkina, who is based in the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King's and ARC South London, co-led the development of the guide with Dr Louise Hull of the Centre for Mental Health Policy and Evaluation at King’s. The Director of the Policy Research Unit, Prof Annette Boaz, was also on the development team.

Dr Semkina introduces the guide in the short video below (1min 54sec).

 

The guide was developed with input from a group of 13 specialists in social care and implementation science, among them a number of researchers at the Policy Research Unit, past and present. It draws on the original Implementation Science Research development (ImpRes) tool and guide (Hull et al., 2019). 

 

Structured across eight sections, the guide introduces key terms and concepts relevant to implementation research in social care, including the importance of engaging stakeholders, different implementation theories, frameworks and strategies, and implementation outcomes.

The SC-ImpRes guide aims to:

• Support social care researchers and practitioners in designing and conducting implementation research, rather than doing implementation itself
• Define commonly used implementation science terms
• Provide an overview of implementation science practices and concepts
• Direct research teams to relevant literature and resources

The guide is for social care researchers and practitioners with varying levels of expertise in implementation science working on implementation research projects.

>> Go to the SC-ImpRes guide << 

Find out more about the ImpRes resources:

• Implementation Science Research development (ImpRes) tool and guide (Hull et al., 2019)

• Implementation Research Proposal Assessment Criteria (ImpResPAC) tool (Sweetnam et al., 2022)

• Implementation Science Research Glossary

 

With thanks to NIHR ARC South London, from whom this news item is taken. The late Dr Martin Stevens of the Policy Research Unit also sat on the expert advisory group for this project.