Sarah Morton | University of Edinburgh (original) (raw)

Co-Director, Knowledge Exchange, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), Director of Evidence to Action, What Works Scotland, Director KERI, The Usher Institute
University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

I work at the interface between social research, policy and practice in a range of leadership roles. I am Co-Director (Knowledge Exchange) at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships where I lead a Knowledge Exchange team which facilitates ways in which research on families and relationships can be widely used.

I am the Knowledge Exchange Specialist for the Scottish School for Public Health Research, and an Impact Analyst within the University of Edinburgh and with wider projects

I have recently combined this work with an ESRC funded PhD looking at the process assessing the impact of research on policy and practice. I am an associate of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation and was a member of the Scottish Funding Council's working group on Knowledge Exchange and Public Policy. I am interested in all aspects of research use and knowledge to action, particularly social research, issues in the co-production of research, assessing impact and approaches to research use which address complexity.

I have been working in knowledge exchange for over ten years, but previously had held a variety of networking, policy development and research roles in the voluntary sector. This work builds on my experience of community education, community development and adult education.

Selected publications

Morton, Nutley and Phipps (2012) Using research to influence family services and policies: issues and challenges Families, Relationships and Society 1 (2) Policy Press
Morton, S. and S. Nutley (2011). What happens next? Getting research into policy and practice. Researching families and relationships : reflections on process. In L. Jamieson, R. Lewis and R. Simpson(eds) . New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Nutley, S., S. Morton, et al. (2010). "Evidence and policy in six European countries: diverse approaches and common challenges." Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 6: 131-144.

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