Research task group

The EBTA research task group likes to invite full-time academic researchers and also professionals who carry out practitioner research based studies to write a 2024 Application in order to share their research and the changes made for the better.

According to de Lange, Schuman & Montesano Montessori, (2016), both research and change in practice, need to be involved with each other from the very first stage in order to make that relationship the subject of systematic study. Mixed Methods: Integrating quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis in studying the conduct of solution-focused practice

Practitioner research developed as a recognized type of research in the last quarter of the 20th century. Practitioner research refers to research and/or workplace research such as evaluation performed by individuals who also work in a professional field as opposed to being full-time academic researchers. Good research is one thing, implementing its results in real-life situations is quite another. In many areas of society (health care, administration, education, security, etc.) the need is increasingly felt to not only conduct research, but also to implement or apply the results in practice. 

Practitioners who carry out practice oriented research want to better understand and also improve their professional practice. It concerns research initiated and carried out by the practitioner. To apply for the EBTA Grant fill in the Application form and send it back to research@ebta.eu

Mixed method

The mixed method is designed to expand the toolbox of methods used to evaluate and further develop the solution-focused approach and application of this method in service to the client and practitioner. 

The term “mixed methods” refers to an emerging research methodology that promotes the systematic integration, or “blending,” of quantitative and qualitative data within a single study or sustained research program. The premise of this methodology is that such integration allows for a more complete and synergistic use of data than a separate collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

Mixed method – research has its origins in the social sciences.  It has recently expanded to the health and medical sciences, including nursing, social work, mental health and others. 

Central characteristics of a well-designed mixed method study are:

1. to collect and analyze both quantitative (closed research questions) and qualitative (open research questions) data;
2. using followable research procedures in the collection and analysis of data that are appropriate to the tradition of the method used;
3. integration of data during data collection, analysis, and/or discussion;
4. framing procedures within philosophical or theoretical models of inquiry, such as within a social constructionist model that seeks to understand multiple perspectives on a single issue: for example, what would be of use or what would characterize clients and practitioners within solution-focused practice.