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Engaged research that delivers: Practical design, fair process, and usable evidence of impact

Plan and run engaged research so collaboration is purposeful, equitable and usable.

What we will cover

Collaboration is often praised in principle but under-planned in practice. This webinar sets out how to design and run engaged research so that collaboration is purposeful, equitable and produces outcomes people can use.

Drawing on evidence about the tensions between engagement ideals and the realities of knowledge exchange, it covers choosing the right people to work with, agreeing terms of collaboration and building credible ways to capture learning and impact as the work unfolds.

Richard Holliman is Professor of Engaged Research at The Open University, UK. He examines tensions between the theory and practice of knowledge exchange, arguing that engaged research should carry a moral imperative to promote epistemic justice, or "fairness in knowing".

How the session runs

  • 0:00Welcome and why this mattersA quick orientation and the one idea to hold onto for the hour.
  • 0:05Fair process in real-world knowledge exchangeChoosing collaborators, agreeing terms, and capturing learning and impact as the work unfolds.
  • 0:45Live Q&ABring your questions. We answer as many as we can before we close.

Who is leading it

Prof. Richard Holliman
Guest speaker
Prof. Richard Holliman
Professor of Engaged Research, The Open University

Richard Holliman is Professor of Engaged Research at The Open University, UK. He examines tensions between theories and practices of knowledge exchange, arguing that engaged research should have a moral imperative to promote epistemic justice.

Prof. Mark Reed
Lead facilitator
Prof. Mark Reed
Author, The Research Impact Handbook

A globally cited, transdisciplinary researcher on Clarivate's Highly Cited list and author of four books on research impact, productivity and influencing policy.

10,000+
researchers trained
250+
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