A presentation from Victoria Schoen, Research Fellow, FRC

1. Improving
CSO-academic collaboration
Victoria Schoen
Research Fellow
FRC

2. 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

4. Carnegie UK Trust recommendations
• Allow open access to academic publications
• Introduce service learning
• Invest in an embedded gateway

5. 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

6. For CSOs
• Engage proactively with universities
• Bring academics onto Boards and Groups
• Offer secondment opportunities

7. For HEFCE and RCUK
• Resource embedded gateways
• Reward collaboration
• Continue to encourage access to
academic outputs

8. The FRC Triangle

9. 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/interac
tion/
• 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