Resources

Briefings

Runnymede Trust – Finding Common Cause

A briefing on the Common Cause Report looking at the key messages for community and arts organisations interested in collaboration and research with universities.

Common Cause: action needed to create fair and mutual
research partnerships between universities and Black and
Minority Ethnic Communities

A Common Cause Report produced in collaboration with Policy Bristol aimed at university administrators and researchers.

Press

Reference material

Resources on Research, Collaboration and the Higher Education Sector

Staying Power: The career experiences and strategies of UK Black female professors

The study examines, through one-to-one interviews, the experiences of 20 of the 25 UK Black female Professors. Black in this context refers to those of African, Caribbean and other Black background.

The National Standards for Community Engagement

This document produced by The Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) has set out good-practice principles designed to support and inform the process of community engagement, and improve what happens as a result. These principles have been used to support community engagement, and user involvement, in Scotland since 2005, following the idea of “7 Standards” as outlined on their website and in the study.

Mind The Gap: Rigor & Relevance In Heritage Science Research

This report from the National Archives aimed to examine in detail the perceived hindrances to, as well as the enablers of, collaboration across academic and practice-focused research communities. It arose from the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme sponsored Research Clusters in 2008.

Practice Policy Briefing: Enabling Marginalised Communities in Policy and Practice

This briefing explains the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR) with marginalised groups of people. In essence these were people who experience barriers in interacting with representatives of social policy and practice on a daily basis.

Research with BME Groups

A “how to” Guide from Kirklees Council through their Involve tool  provides a starting point for carrying out research with BME community groups.

Resources on Third Sector

The Third Sector Resource Centre has a considerable number of papers available as Open Access documents, and is a key starting point for this information.

Suggested papers

• The Black and Minority Ethnic Third Sector: A Resource Paper
• “Very small, very quiet, a whisper” Black and Minority Ethnic Groups: Voice and Influence

Case studies

Co-Producing Knowledge with Below The Radar Communities: Factionalism, Commodification or Partnership? A Gipsy, Roma, and Traveller Case Study

A discussion paper explores the debates around community led research, drawing on the specific case study example of European Gypsy, Traveller and Roma research networks.

It identifies the challenges in the co-production of research knowledge and how more inclusive models of research might be developed in future.

The University as the ‘Imagined Other’: Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research

This academic article presents a number of case studies regarding ways in which research processes can be reflected upon collaboratively and suggests methodologies that allow for uncertainty and unknowing in order to make sense of this process. It argues that combining collaborative ethnography together with methodologies from arts practice can be helpful in grounding collaborative research within epistemologies of uncertainty and hope.

Understanding Well-being Through Community Research in Easton and Lawrence Hill

This report has been produced by the community organisation Up Your Street, based in Bristol, following their research project exploring ideas about well-being and community involvement.