Evidence Community

The Evidence Community is for practitioners, researchers, people with lived experience and those who have a shared passion and interest in social care research and evidence.

The community meets online and in person, providing a place for members to talk about evidence-enriched practice together.

Members can share pieces of work, challenges they're facing and ask each other questions.

There’s an online platform where members can continue conversations between meet-ups. They can also share resources, news, write blogs and find upcoming events.

We hold regular workshops where we talk about specific pieces of social care research or evidence together. These are based on themes that are suggested by community members.

Our aim is to break down the barriers to engaging with social care research. We want to make research and evidence more accessible and bring it to life for busy practitioners.

We also have a focus on how research and evidence can enrich practice and policymaking, and the ultimate goal is to improve outcomes for people using social care services.

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Key contact

Rhiannon Wright

Community Manager

insightcollective@socialcare.wales

I manage our Evidence Community, which aims to make research and evidence more accessible and bring it to life for busy practitioners.

I’m passionate about making social care research and evidence accessible and easier to use in practice. I’m a qualified social worker and have a background in local authority children’s services. I also spent many years in the third sector working therapeutically with children, focussing on the topics of sexual exploitation, harmful sexual behaviour and developmental trauma.

Just before joining Social Care Wales, I worked for a regional safeguarding board, coordinating adult and child practice reviews and developing their quality assurance strategy.