The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government has released a guide to facilitate a greater role for practitioners in local government research.

ACELG’s Make Your Knowledge: A Guide to Developing and Documenting Research guide has been released in an effort to encourage local government research professionals develop ideals, document good practice and share their body of work with a wider audience.

The publication offers instruction on the production of research outputs, outlines and introduces the types of thinking required in constructing academic work, and offers a number of relevant research examples that are likely to build on the technical abilities of practitioners in the area seeking to enhance their own research capacity.

This guide builds on a suite of other ACELG initiatives to encourage a greater role for local government practitioners in sectoral research. It will also provide a valuable tool for those wishing to submit papers to the upcoming Local Government Researchers Forum to be held in June 2013.

The full paper can be found here