Consulting Skills for Social Researchers

✍ Scribed by Simon Haslam

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 117
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Consulting skills help researchers frame and define research projects, manage the social research process, engage with stakeholders and influence change. This practitioner-oriented text is the first to help social researchers and those active in the social research sector develop these skills. Drawing from the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes’ consulting competence framework, it will aid understanding of effective consulting skills in the UK and international social research community and will be invaluable for all those commissioning, managing and conducting social research.

✦ Table of Contents

CONSULTING SKILLS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCHERS
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures
1
1. Consulting and social research
1 Social research and consulting – key distinctions
2 The structure of this book
3
3. The consulting process
1 Good clients
2 The consulting cycle… and its implications
3 Project intimacy
4 Logic in project design
5 Management models
6 Interviews
7 Data to insight
8 Logic in presentation
9 The Prestige
5. Conclusion
Key ingredients of consulting
The consulting process
Skills in challenging the client
Index