ImprovingCSO-academic collaboration

Victoria SchoenResearch Fellow

FRC

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

The FRC Triangle

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