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Section 3 Issues and concerns in research and consultation

3.10 Sharing ideas and resources amongst landlords

The research for this guidance was partly based on two practice exchange workshops which brought together staff from social landlord organisations to share and discuss their practice dilemmas related to research and consultation. Participants found it beneficial to share experience and to discover that other organisations were struggling with the same issues or indeed, had found a solution that worked for them.

There is scope for more of these kinds of events that provide practical support and guidance from peers and this may be something that the professional bodies such as the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations or the Scottish Housing Best Value Network might consider.

In terms of sharing more specific resources such as questionnaires there may be scope for the development of a resource such as the Question Bank which makes questionnaires used in large scale social surveys conducted by professional survey organisations available on the web. However, blanket adoption of existing data collection instruments obtained in this way may undermine a more locally contextualised utilisation focused approach. It is important that methods are fit for purpose.

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