This workshop will consider a variety of approaches that research in practice has found successful in improving research use in practice contexts. It will focus on Change Projects that operate through intensive work with a small number of ambitious agencies - testing and evaluating new methods of promoting evidence-informed practice which others may adopt and replicate. research in practice has already completed a number of Change Projects on the following topics: leading evidence-informed practice, the use of research in teams and on the necessary organisational support for the use of research evidence.

A particular focus of the workshop will be on the Change Project approach that we are using in a new project that begins in June 2007 focussed on engaging and re-engaging young people in learning. This is a collaborative project between the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and research in practice, funded by the Department of Education and Skills (DfES).