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Summary
The University of Roehampton is the most research-intensive modern university in the UK and a major civic institution in South West London. Based in the borough of Wandsworth, we advance cutting-edge research that prioritises health and wellbeing, the creative arts, just and inclusive societies, and economic and ecological sustainability. Our research is integral to the ways in which we serve our communities, and our progressive partnerships with local, national, and global businesses, organisations, and governments. Our proud legacy of inclusive educational provision informs our values-driven approach. We champion equality of opportunity for all, and seek to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders through collaboration with partners who share our values, delivering outcomes that benefit society as a whole.Institutional context
The University of Roehampton is a modern campus university located in the borough of Wandsworth in South West London. Ranked the most research-intensive modern university in the UK (REF 2014), we focus on the health sciences, arts and humanities, and business, education and social sciences. We engage with organisations that align with our areas of expertise in which we have a strong tradition of both teaching and research: creative practice and performing arts, English Literature, education research and teaching, theological research and training, and health-related research, in particular.
Our approach to knowledge exchange (KE) is shaped by our values-led ethos and by our commitment to enriching and supporting communities. Our values of inclusivity and social justice inform our Research and Knowledge Exchange Enabling Strategy (2019-25). We have embarked upon ambitious plans to expand our discovery and challenge-led research and KE programmes nationally, and to increase our capacity-building and knowledge-sharing activities, building on our success to date in working with business, arts organisations, the third sector and higher education across the UK and internationally.
At the same time, Roehampton’s location shapes our approach to external engagement and partnerships. As part of the South West London ecosystem, including Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth boroughs, we engage with key local institutions and community foci including the borough councils, Kew Gardens, Richmond Park, the National Archives, and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. We contribute to the social and cultural enrichment of the area through cultural partnerships, including with the Wimbledon BookFest, Barnes Children’s Literature Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, and, through Growhampton, our award-winning student-led social enterprise, the Alton Estate.
Our commitment to supporting and enriching our community through economic, social, cultural, and environmental engagement stems from our distinguished history of equal access to higher education, and our mature research cultures. Our four Colleges, Frobel, Digby Stuart, Southlands and Whitelands, were founded by faith-based and educational organisations with the explicit aim of expanding education to society’s most disadvantaged. We have been providing higher education to women since 1841, longer than any other institution in the UK. Over a quarter of our undergraduates are first-in-family to attend university, over half of our students are BAME, and over two fifths come from high deprivation areas. Our Education Strategy, reflecting our founding institutions’ missions and values, aims to close the attainment gap between our BAME and white students whilst becoming a top-ten London institution for undergraduate employment or further study. Student community engagement is a core component of our knowledge exchange activity: through innovative partnerships including Wandsworth and Merton Chambers of Commerce, Crystal Palace Football Club, Citizens Advice Wandsworth, South West London Law Centres, and Santander, our students are a key focus of our community engagement, whilst also benefitting from enriching educational and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
The work of our staff and students supports community needs, shapes policy, and supports our local economy. We are an open university, deeply enmeshed in our communities, and committed to serving the needs of our diverse stakeholders here in South West London, nationally, and globally.
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Local Growth and Regeneration
Summary of approach
The University of Roehampton’s local and regional regeneration strategy has a global reach, which is delivered primarily through community engagement and mobilisation. Within the context of our immediate location in South West London, we work with local government, businesses, and community organisations to meet local skills needs and build community cohesion. We do this through student placements and continuing professional development, through research which addresses local issues, and through our support of the work of key community partners and events. Internationally, we leverage our research expertise and funding to build capacity in specific regional contexts in East Africa, India, and the Caribbean, working with local cultural and educational organisations to help foster regional resilience, environmental conservation, and economic growth.
Aspect 1: Strategy
The University of Roehampton’s approach to local growth and regeneration has a global reach, delivered through deep engagement with the communities we work with. Our regional development initiatives, at the both the local and the international level, are based on an iterative understanding of community needs, developed over several years’ engagement through research projects and consultation with the local borough councils and with third sector and community organisations in the international regions in which we operate. Crucially, we look to create and sustain innovative projects which span research, knowledge exchange, and student education.
Our investment in local growth ranges from our immediate local context in South West London, where we work with schools, arts and third sector organisations, social enterprises and SMEs to address the local skills agenda and meet community needs, through to our local capacity-building in international contexts, including in East Africa, particularly Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Ethiopia, the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Our engagement in these spheres is driven by our values-led ethos and informed by our research themes:
1. Creative enrichment
2. Health and wellbeing
3. Inclusive societies
4. Faith and society
5. Economic and ecological sustainability
In turn we are directed by these themes’ affinity with community-based and grassroots interventions.
Our five-year HEIF strategy, and our three-year GCRF strategy, together express our local and international approaches to regional development. We engage in knowledge exchange that meets local and global regional needs across three key strands: 1) human capacity-building; 2) growing and sustaining high quality research-based regional knowledge exchange; 3) creating social capital. Our Research and Knowledge Exchange Enabling Strategy 2019-2025 articulates how we will intensify our community-focussed research and knowledge exchange activity over the next five years to ensure it continues to meet the changing needs of our regional communities. We will do this by: a) consolidating and extending partnerships with local bodies and organisations; b) securing Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with local SMEs and London-based companies; c) developing models for collaborative projects and co-produced research; d) increasing our research capacities in ODA-recipient nations.
The University of Roehampton belongs to a complex local context in South West London. The Roehampton ward, incorporating our immediate neighbours on the Alton Estate, includes areas that are among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England, while Putney is characterised by high-value private housing. This radical inequality is reflective of wider London inequalities which we are keenly alive to, and which we seek to collectively address. As a member of the Greater London Authority-funded South London Knowledge Exchange Partnership, we work with Richmond, Sutton, Merton, and Croydon councils and local HEIs, to identify how our collective expertise, including that of our students, can address the needs of the diverse communities in South West London. The Alumni, Careers and Development team works with the Wandsworth and Merton Chambers of Commerce on student internships for local businesses and entrepreneurship initiatives. Through Wandsworth Borough Council we are engaging with the South London Innovation Corridor, the Arts and Culture Strategy, and the skills and employment steering group for the Nine Elms regeneration project in Battersea. This work ensures that our strategic aims align with our local partners’ and that our research and knowledge exchange activity meets local needs.
Our local experience of community engagement informs our approach internationally in communities in East Africa, the Caribbean, and India, with research and knowledge exchange initiatives in Madagascar, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Anguilla, and the Western Ghats region of India. In addition, we are expanding our work in the Middle East through targeted new projects. Our expertise in social anthropology, particularly heritage preservation and tourism, and in creative arts practice, has led to partnerships in those regions which have enabled us to co-identify capacity and training needs with central government and higher education institutions. This understanding informs our GCRF strategy, which aims to direct funding and build capacity through research projects, capacity-building training and PhD opportunities, and direct action with local third sector and community organisations.
Aspect 2: Activity
Local and regional engagement and development has been a strong growth area for the University of Roehampton over the past three years, becoming central to how we plan and deliver our teaching, outreach work, and research. We are eager to increase delivery across our key areas of development.
Research-based knowledge exchange to meet local needs
We grow and sustain high quality research-based knowledge exchange initiatives within the regional communities we support, leveraging our GCRF and HEIF allocations against institutional funds to support programmes which address specific needs.
Our Psychology-based Continuing Professional Development offer is based on our expertise in counselling, play, and arts therapy. Over the past three years, over 1100 therapy practitioners have benefitted from our courses. In response to Covid-19, colleagues in Psychology are working with the Employee Health Services at St. George's University Hospital NHS Foundation to develop a therapeutic support programme for NHS staff working on the Covid-19 frontline. This online programme will be delivered by Roehampton final-year students and therapists.
We invest internal funding alongside a proportion of our GCRF and Strategic Priority Fund funding each year to seed-fund knowledge exchange projects which benefit local communities in the UK and overseas. Over the past 3 years, we have supported activities including: research into domestic violence within BAME communities and adolescent-grandparent violence which has led to direct engagement with criminal justice professionals nationally and internationally; oral history research into reading practices which has engaged reading groups at Roehampton Library, Putney Library, Colliers Wood Library, and Clapham Library, drawing together isolated individuals from across the Putney and Roehampton wards. In Palestine and Tunisia, research expertise in democratic citizenship has been applied to state-sponsored democratic participation education programmes, while linguistics research is supporting translation and training projects aimed at helping the Kurdish diaspora. Our cultural anthropology expertise has catalysed projects in the Western Ghats of India, where researchers are working with the Adivasi people and local government bodies to preserve traditional practices. In East Africa, our researchers work with traditional communities, cultural organisations, local government, and international aid organisations to develop sustainable agriculture and tourism initiatives, and carry out research aimed at eradicating disease and empowering women to drive economic development, while in the Caribbean our research in partnership with the Anguilla National Trust is saving endangered and threatened species from habit destruction.
Creating social capital
We engage locally through innovative teaching programs, social enterprises and partnerships that provide opportunities for our students and academic staff to contribute to local growth and social regeneration, including a partnership with Citizens Advice Wandsworth to open the Roehampton Advice Centre on the Alton Estate. This initiative, supported through University investment, enables students to provide legal and social welfare advice to vulnerable local citizens. The third year ‘Special Ethnographic Project’ Sociology module sees students carry out research projects in support of local homeless charity The Upper Room, enabling the charity to better target its support to homeless individuals. Growhampton, our award-winning food and sustainability social enterprise, works with Regenerate, the Alton Estate charity, to support a number of employment programmes including The Feel Good Bakery, which offers employment and skills development to ex-offenders, and the ‘This is Our Jam’ zero-waste food company.
The University also works closely with local cultural festivals. We have been the creative partner of the Barnes Children’s Literature Festival since 2016, with students in the School of Humanities undertaking placements and postgraduate students and staff contributing to the Festival. In September 2018 the University became the official Wimbledon BookFest partner, committing £30,000 per annum over the next five years, to support academics and postgraduates in the School of Humanities to contribute to the BookFest wider education programme, which reaches over 7000 students in 70 London schools each year, as well as providing an annual Poet in Residence, lectures, and panel discussions. The festival is a major local event which attracts around 15,000 visitors each year
Building human capital to support local development
The University of Roehampton invests significantly in local economies through partnerships and capacity-building initiatives. The Psychology department works with local NHS partners and clinics to provide clinical placements for therapeutic practice students, with 350 placements each year. Our Education department has trained 150 Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinators (SENCOs) for schools across London over the past three years, and has established partnerships with Merton and Lambeth teaching schools to co-deliver training tailored to meet local SEND school needs, co-teaching42 SENCOs to date. As a patron of the Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce, with whom we co-sponsor the Wandsworth Young Chamber of Commerce, we directly support local business. Work placements are at the heart of our teaching, with credit-bearing placement modules at London organisations offered across all academic departments. In 2018/19 over 1300 students undertook a placement. The Roehampton Internships Scheme and the annual start-up competition, both supported by Santander Universities, has over the past 2 years placed 64 students and alumni in paid positions in South West London SMEs and has led to students registering twelve companies. This is a major area of investment for the University. In 2018/19 we also began collaborating with Battersea Arts Centre on a knowledge exchange initiative which brought Roehampton staff and students into their Scratch Hub incubator, to develop their own social enterprises whilst sharing expertise with Hub members.
In East Africa and India, we have leveraged our GCRF allocations over the past 3 years to fund four PhD students, from India, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. The candidates have positions within universities, cultural institutions, and central government which they will return to upon completion of their degrees, enabling upskilling and capacity-building within those nations. Via the £2 million AHRC-GCRF-funded ‘Rising from the Depths’ project, on which Roehampton is a Co-Investigator institution, we have supported anthropological research on maritime heritage in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Madagascar. Designed and delivered in conjunction with local heritage and arts organisations, this project is uncovering opportunities for sustainable economic growth in the region based on tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Aspect 3: Results
We consistently monitor and report on the outcomes of our impact and knowledge exchange interventions. Results inform strategic planning, including our Research and Knowledge Exchange Enabling Strategy 2019-2025, our GCRF Strategy, and our HEIF strategy. Enabling Strategy targets, including for research and KE income and public and community engagement, are benchmarked against 2019 performances across a range of measures which directly reflect the outcomes of our development initiatives to date.
Impact and knowledge exchange outcomes are also reflected on in departmental business planning in order to inform department-level targets, including within the Research Office. Demand for our CPD courses is reviewed annually and our offer revised to ensure we meet the needs of our local community. In 2018/19, following a review of our therapy courses, we consolidated our offer to focus on the core arts therapy courses.
Knowledge exchange and impact projects supported by University funding are evaluated and the outcome of those reports inform additional funding decisions. Where appropriate, these reports are made public and are an important component of impact strategy; for example, the Sounds of Intent Early Years impact report sets out findings and recommendations for early years music-based interventions; while the Living Libraries impact report articulates the wellbeing benefits for participants.
Knowledge exchange activities and interventions are planned and developed with long-term impact in mind, and many of the projects we have supported and developed over the past three years will realise outcomes in the future. Our PhD studentships for students from ODA recipient nations, for example, will graduate over the next two to three years, and will return to their professional and academic positions in Ethiopia, Kenya, India, and Ghana, where they will build capacity and train their colleagues. Likewise, our GCRF-funded initiatives in Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, and elsewhere in East Africa are still in progress. We will draw on the outcomes and lessons learned to inform our future GCRF and HEIF strategies and allocations, and to iteratively review the ways in which our knowledge exchange strategy is meeting regional needs.
For further information, please send queries to Researchoffice@roehampton.ac.uk
Public & Community Engagement
Summary of approach
The University of Roehampton supports and delivers high-quality public and community engagement activities which address diverse beneficiary needs. Engagement is central to our University Enabling Strategies 2019-25. We have invested in public and community engagement through dedicated workload for academic staff; pump-priming resources; a dedicated Impact and Knowledge Exchange team; and a new development programme for academic staff. We have linked public engagement to academic and relevant professional staff KPIs, and utilise an information management system to inform the future development of our engagement approach, following robust analysis of previous success. Since 2017, our staff have carried out over one thousand national and international public engagement activities, including public events, media appearances and contributions, and community and stakeholder engagement.
Aspect 1: Strategy
Our community and public engagement is driven by our commitment to social justice and inclusivity, which is embedded in institutional research themes: creative enrichment; health and wellbeing; inclusive societies; faith and society; and economic and ecological sustainability. Our aim is to help transform the communities we engage with through actions and programmes that meet their needs. These aims are operationalised as follows:
Staff are expected to build public and community engagement into their research and knowledge exchange plans. Our Professional Practice workload allowance supports external engagement up to 300 hours p.a. To date, over 7,500 hours have been allocated to support Professional Practice.
We identify stakeholder groups through a) affinity with our research themes and areas of strategic focus, and b) engagement with communities, institutions and industry partners who share our values. We have longstanding relationships with Shakespeare’s Globe, the Battersea Arts Centre, and Regenerate, the Alton Estate social mobility charity. We have developed public learning programmes with the University of the Third Age, and run Collaborative Doctoral Awards with Kew Gardens, Live Art Development Agency, the Black Cultural Archives, Sadler’s Wells, and The National Archives.
We facilitate this engagement through professional service support including the Impact and Knowledge Exchange, Alumni and Careers, and the Development teams, who horizon-scan for opportunities, connect external stakeholders with researchers, learning and teaching staff, and the Graduate School, and support development, delivery, and evaluation of engagement activity.
Achievement is benchmarked through annual departmental business plans including targets for public engagement, and external benchmarking through exercises including the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the annual Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey (HE-BCIS), and success in collaborative funding applications.
Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, and Senate, oversee all knowledge exchange in the institution. Plans and outcomes are presented regularly to these bodies to ensure future actions are identified and embedded across the institution.
Our Research and Knowledge Exchange Enabling Strategy 2019-2025 further embeds public and community engagement within our future vision for the University and its civic role. Building upon our approach to date, this strategy commits us to increase our public and community engagement through pump-priming for impact activity, scaled up media and public engagement activities, and the development of new collaborations with the community stakeholders who can benefit from, participate in, and guide our research priorities.
We have ambitious targets for public and community engagement, and will measure success against our performance in our KEF cluster, aiming for a top-five rank over the next five years.
Aspect 2: Support
Since 2017, the University has invested significantly in infrastructure and capacity-building to drive public and community engagement. Alongside our robust governance structures, this investment will enable us to meet our engagement targets as outlined in our strategy.
Leadership and Governance
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee has institutional oversight for impact and engagement with strategic delegation through the Provost and the Associate Vice-Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange). Within each Department and School, Research and Knowledge Exchange Leads (senior academic colleagues) are responsible for operationalising the public and community engagement goals articulated in the Enabling Strategy. The Committee receives bi-annual reports on progress against targets, while the regular Vice-Chancellor’s report to Senate includes public and community engagement metrics and achievements.
Infrastructure and strategic support
Cross-institutional support for public and community engagement is provided centrally by the Impact and Knowledge Exchange team. The team, which is supported by our annual HEIF allocation, works closely with academic colleagues to actively identify opportunities for external engagement, support development and delivery of appropriate and innovative activities, and evaluate and monitor outcomes.
Central strategic impact funds are used to pump-prime public and community engagement initiatives; since 2017 significant resources have been invested to support a wide range of successful activities including an exhibition on Mary Shelley at the Wordsworth Trust; an immersive theatrical performance at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham exploring memories of reading; and direct action to support vulnerable women in the BAME community at risk of honour-based violence. We are invested in supporting the priorities of our Knowledge Exchange partners, and leveraging mutually reinforcing in-kind support to deliver ambitious outcomes.
Capacity-building support
The annual Research and Knowledge Exchange programme, run by the Research Office is open to all academic staff and includes targeted workshops on public and community engagement. Over the last two years, over one third of the academic staff base has participated in this development programme annually.
The importance of public engagement is recognised in our academic workloads; the professional practice allocation of 30% includes significant public or community engagement plans, while the top research allocation of 40% is based on criteria including ambitious impact and public engagement plans and delivery track record. All academic colleagues have a research and knowledge exchange or professional practice mentor. At annual formal mentoring meetings, colleagues in receipt of research or professional practice allocations must agree a plan for the year which explicitly includes public engagement and impact goals and specific plans for delivery.
Aspect 3: Activity
Public and community engagement at Roehampton focusses on our research and knowledge exchange themes, which promote collaboration and innovative approaches to meeting societal needs. Since 2017, we have delivered over one thousand public and community engagement activities, reaching an estimated 21.5 million stakeholders and beneficiaries.
Within our research themes, the following initiatives exemplify our approach to public engagement:
Creative enrichment: Creative collaboration and audience response are integral to our creative practice research, and since 2017, 551 individual events have taken place. Within Drama, Theatre and Performance, major public events included the curation of Doing Time, the Taiwan pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, attended by over 100,000 international visitors, and awarded Asian Contemporary Art’s 2019 award for curation; and experimental radio adaptations which reached an estimated 10.9m listeners through BBC Radio 4. Colleagues in the Roehampton Poetry Centre have given over 70 public readings at major festivals including Cheltenham, Hay on Wye, Manchester, and Bristol, whilst filmmakers have shared their work internationally at over 20 screenings in the period, including at DocLisboa, Zagreb Subversive Film Festival, and Sheffield DocFest. Our colleagues have received international accolades including BAFTA nominations and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Health and wellbeing: colleagues in Life Sciences, Humanities and Dance work with stakeholders and the public to promote health and wellbeing. Through the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence, a senior colleague has leveraged media engagement to successfully campaign for NICE guideline revisions, benefitting the estimated 7 million adults prescribed antidepressants in England each year. Dance research has led to an artistic and psychological intervention, ‘Moving Kinship’, which supports young-onset dementia sufferers and their family carers. Delivered through St George’s NHS Trust, Dementia Alliance, and Public Health England, to date 1,500 patients and their families have benefitted. Colleagues work with the British Dietetic Association and British Specialist Nutrition Association to successfully lobby for equitable access to gluten-free products for the UK’s estimated 600,000 coeliac sufferers.
Inclusive societies: Roehampton colleagues and students work with often-marginalised communities to create opportunities. Our food and horticulture social enterprise Growhampton, led by staff and students, provides opportunities for children from the local Alton Estate to learn gardening and animal care. Colleagues within the School of Humanities have engaged extensively with public organisations to make public heritage more accessible: ‘The Tudors’ Massive Open Online Course launched in February 2019; the free six-week course has attracted over 25,000 participants to date. Dustin Frazier Woods works with East Midlands Museums and the Spalding Gentleman’s Society, an 18th century antiquarian collection, to provide cataloguing, curatorial and archival training to local volunteers and University of the Third Age members in the East Midlands, enabling an important collection to re-open to the public as well as providing opportunities for isolated individuals.
Faith and society: Through our providing bodies and founding colleges, we work with religious charities including MarriageCare and the Southlands Methodist Trust to carry out research and knowledge exchange activities that support faith communities. Colleagues in Theology work extensively with Pentecostal and Black Churches in London to ensure their congregations are included in local planning processes and policymaking, and engage nationally through the National Church Leaders Forum to drive up Black democratic participation.
Sustainability: Staff and students are engaged in a range of activities to support environmental sustainability. In 2019 Growhampton won a ‘Sustainable City Award’ for practices which sustain a healthy work environment. In Life Sciences, colleagues work with traditional fishing communities in Kenya to uncover more sustainable practices, while GCRF-funded PGR students and staff are working in Kenya, India, and Ethiopia on projects which are uncovering sustainable business opportunities in the coffee industry and cultural tourism.
Aspect 4: Results and learning
We evaluate success through regular monitoring and impact evaluations. Outcomes inform annual business planning and strategic review at Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee and Senate.
The Impact and Knowledge Exchange team support academic colleagues to carry out public engagement monitoring and evaluation. All engagement activities which are supported by either internal or external funding are expected to be informed by an evaluation framework, with results informing further internal scale-up funding. In addition to internal assessment processes, we also draw on external benchmarks including the HE-BCI survey public engagement metrics, and beneficiary and partner feedback to assess the impact and outcomes of our activities. Key examples of impact arising from colleagues’ research include:
The Sounds of Intent framework, which utilises music to engage neurodiverse children, is used in at least 25% of special educational needs schools nationwide, and in up to 80% of the UK’s 390 special educational needs schools for children with complex needs.
Creative writing at Roehampton is a dynamic focus of public engagement, and our writers’ impact is evidenced through audience and critical reception. Colleagues’ writing has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2019, shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Biography Prize and included in 2018’s Times Literary Nonfiction Books of the Year list. Since 2017, Roehampton’s creative writers and their published works have attracted 226 mentions, interviews and reviews in both high profile and independent media.
Our Early Modern historians have achieved significant success in public engagement. In 2018/19 the ‘We are Bess’ exhibition at Hardwick Hall attracted approximately 144,000 visitors, and won the National Trust Experience Awards 2018’s award for ‘Programming through Story’ and the National Trust Mighty Oak Awards 2019’s ‘Great Experiences’ award.
Aspect 5: Acting on results
Public and community engagement outcomes are internally shared through governance structures at all levels of the organisation, and inform our strategic planning, professional support structure decisions, and academic workloads.
Our Research and Knowledge Exchange Enabling Strategy is informed by our impact evaluations, benchmarked against internal and peer-institution HE-BCI data. Recent innovations such as the development of the professional practice workload allocation and mentoring framework are based on evidence of delivery associated with fully integrated public engagement planning. Workloads are allocated annually against measures including delivery of previous impact plans, and future plans which are explicitly pegged to impact and knowledge exchange targets. Likewise, the creation in 2019 of the Impact and Knowledge Exchange team was based on evidence of the value added by dedicated professional support for impact development, delivery, and evaluation.
We share research outcomes and engagement opportunities through our Communications team, and target our findings and analysis to reach key beneficiaries. For example, a report summarising the key findings of the Sounds of Intent framework for music-based learning for children with complex needs was launched at the House of Lords in March 2019 to an audience of practitioners, policymakers and Members; while the outcomes and policy recommendations of the AHRC-funded ‘Living Libraries’ project have also been recently published as a resource for libraries professionals and campaigners. Policy documents co-authored by practice-based researchers in theology including The National Church Leaders Forum’s Black Church Political Mobilisation Manifesto, and Being Built Together, a report showcasing how Pentecostal churches can contribute to local planning decisions, are further examples of how sharing research outcomes directly with stakeholders can effect positive change.
For further information, please send queries to researchoffice@roehampton.ac.uk