Part 4: Why should I work with community partners?
There are a wide range of benefits to working with community partners to engage the public with your research, including:
- Opportunities to engage with audiences and communities you would not otherwise reach
- Expertise in how to engage audiences who are not familiar with higher education/research
- Expertise and knowledge that researchers may lack
- The opportunity for two-way knowledge exchange
- Gain new ideas for research or ways in which your research can have an impact
- Access to local networks that can broaden links with communities
- Potential to contribute to policy drivers such as Engaged Universities[1], the placemaking and levelling up[2]
Visit the Collaboration and Co-production fund pagesLink opens in a new window to explore some of the projects and partnerships WIE has funded to see first hand the benefits to the researchers involved.
Find out more:
- Leeds Beckett University have exploring the benefits of their community partnerships initiative 鈥淐ommUNIty鈥�.
- Northumbria University discusses the benefits of .
- Researchers talk about the in a toolkit created by Carnegie UK and Libraries Connected to support public library/HE partnerships
- The NCCPE have produced a which emphasises institution-wide and strategic approaches to partnership building