Post on 13-Jan-2017
Achieving success
• Involve CSOs at beginning and throughout project
• Time input• Clear objectives• Choosing the research partner• Familiarity with each other’s work• Differences in academic/CSO output
Carnegie UK Trust recommendations
• Allow open access to academic publications• Introduce service learning• Invest in an embedded gateway
For universities and researchers
• Training in methods for collaboration• Consider funding knowledge brokers• Use Project Advisory Groups• Engage fully in the process of collaboration• Sustain relations with CSOs between research
projects
For CSOs
• Engage proactively with universities• Bring academics onto Boards and Groups• Offer secondment opportunities
For HEFCE and RCUK
• Resource embedded gateways• Reward collaboration• Continue to encourage access to
academic outputs
References• Shucksmith, M., 2016. InterAction How can Academics and
the Third Sector Work Together to Influence Policy and Practice?, Carnegie UK Trust,http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications/interaction/
• Campbell, H., Vanderhoven, D. et al, 2016. Knowledge that Matters: Realising the Potential of Co-Production, N8 Research Partnership, http://www.n8research.org.uk/media/Final-Report-Co-Production-2016-01-20.pdf