Read, explore, submit - SPEaR's new online portal
The new-look SPEaR website, operating since October, has features to make the practical business of connecting research and evaluation with social policy easier.
A speciality of the site is that it lets people submit and download a range of current information. It now has submission forms for news, upcoming events, employment opportunities and sector contacts online for the social research and evaluation community.
A key function is an abstracts ‘library’ designed to identify and make available published social policy research and evaluation.
“This area is like a specialist online library for the research and evaluation community. Now we need people to upload completed research and evaluation abstracts so the library becomes ‘full of books’.
“Our aim is that the site becomes a first port of call for checking what research and evaluation has been done before starting new work,” said Paul Honeybone, Project Manager for SPEaR.
At the SPRE Conference in late November, SPEaR, as a major sponsor, promoted the site and is encouraging all practitioners to use this portal.
“We have built the virtual library, and now we need the users to make it serve its purpose by submitting and downloading information,” Paul said.
See www.spear.govt.nz.
