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Institutional Context
Summary
The University of Leicester is a research-intensive institution focussed on real world impact and positive change. Knowledge exchange is vital across our disciplines: we rank 21st in the global impact rankings (Times Higher Education) and first for ‘Life on Land’; we are 20th in the world for clinical medicine (Shanghai Rankings) and are a leading university in the UK for COVID-19 research, especially its impact on BAME populations; we are leading the global shift to inclusive and socially transformative heritage and museums; we are acknowledged as an “AI powerhouse” and, in 2021, will be opening Space Park Leicester which will transform partnerships between industry and academia in space 4.0 and the application of earth observation data for the good of all.
Institutional context
Our 1,200 academic staff work within three Colleges comprising 21 schools. Five University-level Research Institutes exist in areas of strength (Structural & Chemical Biology; Personalised Medicine; Space; Culture & Media Economies; Advanced Studies & Interdisciplinarity) with plans to launch two more (Inclusion in Higher Education; Data Science).
Our new Strategy focuses on ‘Citizens of Change’ and commits staff and students to initiating, managing and interpreting positive change. Real world impact, social inclusion, environmental sustainability and our role as an anchor institution in the city and region are key. We see research, innovation and impact as a virtuous, multi-directional cycle of knowledge exchange (KE) driven by all of us in partnership.
Our approach is captured in our knowledge exchange “house”, driven by our major pillars of Space Park Leicester, our Innovation Hub, and the Leicester Life Science Accelerator.
Our response to the COVID-19 epidemic exemplifies our commitment to working with others: :
Nationally leading COVID-19 screening to support public health and a resilient economy in Leicester;
More than £10m new research investment in long-term COVID-19 impacts, including risks to BAME healthcare workers;
Intensified support for Leicester SMEs throughout the regional innovation ecosystem.
Since our previous, 2015, institutional strategy we have delivered on all our major commitments related to KE, and more.
| KE commitments 2015 | Top level results 2020 |
|---|---|
| Developing a suite of research institutes | Five institutes launched in 2016/17 and Leicestershire Academic Health Partners launched in 2019 with UHL NHS Trust and Leicestershire Partnership Trust, all focused on KE and translation. |
| Developing a Space Park to support the regional and national economy | £100M Space Park Leicester opening in April 2021 hosting major private and public sector partners in Space 4.0, Earth Observation and Data Science. RPIF-funded METEOR and Research England funded SPRINT programmes ensure leading partnerships with industry. |
| Supporting an enterprise culture within the University and economic development in Leicester and the region | Innovation Hub opened in 2017 supporting SMEs via subsidised programmes; new academic career map (2017) includes a KE strand at all levels; development funding available for KE activity increases to over £1m pa in 2019/20; all new undergraduates take the Leicester Award from 2019/20 to develop transferable skills. |
| Developing real world impact in the business, public and third sectors | 21st globally in the 2020 Times Higher Impact rankings; one of three UK research intensives judged as “outstanding” for our Global Challenges Research strategy; our publications have the 9th highest UK citation rate and 54% of our publications (2014-20) have international co-authors. |
| Prioritising outreach and social responsibility programmes in our city and region | In addition to multiple public engagement and social responsibility initiatives we hold leadership roles with our LEP and Midlands Engine. |
| Leading by example on equality and diversity | 31% of our undergraduate population are BAME (2019/20); a significant proportion of our research focusses on addressing inequalities including on BME health; hate crime and socially-engaged heritage research ( LGBTQ and disability inequalities) and on colonial links via our partnership with the National Trust. |
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Local Growth and Regeneration
Summary of approach
We have dramatically expanded our role as anchor institution in Leicestershire and the Midlands over the last 5 years, driving local growth and regeneration. Our work focusses on our research strengths including Space & Earth Observation; Biomedicine & Health; and Culture & Heritage, and is on target to create more than 1000 new local jobs primarily in the space sector.
We have intensified strategic partnerships with our LEP, Midlands Engine, Leicester/shire local authorities and the NHS. We support regeneration through boosting innovation, supporting the development of high skill industries and local SMEs, building on regional strengths and addressing local needs.
New developments include Space Park Leicester, Leicester Innovation Hub, Leicester Life Sciences Accelerator and Leicestershire Academic Health Partners.
Aspect 1: Strategy
We consider our ‘local’ area to be Leicester/shire and the Midlands region and believe that both economic and social outcomes are key to local growth and regeneration. Our geographically local work benefits from our experience of working with communities and organisations globally.
Engagement with the Midlands Engine, Leicester/shire Local Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) and responding to the UK Industrial Strategy has been key to identifying need and developing our strategy. We were heavily involved in the development and implementation of the Leicestershire Local Industrial Strategy (LIS), LLEP Economic Recovery Plan and the Midlands Engine Vision for Growth (VfG). In addition, we are working directly with all Leicester and Leicestershire local authorities on social and economic recovery as a result of COVID-19.
These close links with strategic bodies are led by University leaders: the Pro-Vice- Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) is the Chair of the Strategic Programme Group for Innovation and Enterprise at Midlands Engine and sits on the Leicestershire LEP Executive Board; our Vice Chancellor has regular meetings with the Leicester City Mayor and co-chairs our partnerships with the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the University has been part of the LLEP Economic Recovery Cell, Leicester Resilience Forum, Economic Analysis Group and MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programme (REAP) pilot. We also lead on the COVID taskforce which incorporates PHE, LAHP and our clinical researchers.
Other key partnerships for identifying need and driving regional growth are with Innovate UK; Midlands Innovation (a collaboration between eight research intensive universities in the Midlands); East Midlands Development Corporation (a partnership working on developing key sites around East Midlands Airport), HS2 Skills and Supply Board and Leicester Smart City Board.
The identified areas where regional need links directly to our research and teaching expertise are:
Space technologies – identified as priority growth sector in the Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) and the Midlands Engine Vision for Growth (VfG) and now in the LLEP Economic Recovery Plan and the LLEP Innovation Action Plan;
Life Sciences – also identified as a priority growth sector in the LIS, Midlands Engine, Recovery and Innovation plans;
Culture & heritage – identified as key to shaping great places in the Midlands Engine VfG places ‘foundation’ in the UK Industrial Strategy (UKIS);
Data science – one of the 4 Grand Challenges in the UKIS;
Business management & leadership – key to the people ‘foundation’ in the UKIS.
Aspect 2: Activity
Our key programmes deliver on identified areas of need from the UK Industrial Strategy, Midlands Engine Vision for Growth and Local Industrial Strategy (see above).
Health partnerships: The Leicestershire Academic Health Partnership (LAHP) was established in 2019 between the University of Leicester, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (mental health services) and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The partnership aims to accelerate the transmission of research into healthcare innovations to improve health and well-being in Leicester/shire and Rutland. Our Academic Health Teams (AHTs) bring together different disciplines to address important local health and service delivery issues. Our current AHTs are: Ethnicity and Health; Multimorbidity; Quality Assurance and Data Sciences. The LAHP aims include driving innovation in the local and regional health and life sciences economy, by working with the Midlands Engine, Midlands Health Alliance, Academic Health Sciences Network and industrial partners.
The University has one of only 20 Biomedical Research Centres in the UK which is at the frontier of research into respiratory conditions, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease and the consequences of inactivity. We are part of the East Midlands NIHR Applied Research Collaboration providing applied health and care research that responds to local populations and local health and care systems. This includes the Centre for Ethnic Health Research which conducts research on issues affecting the health and wellbeing of ethnic and migrant communities in Leicester. It also funds the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit based at Leicester’s main hospitals to design and deliver evidence studies and we are a partner in the Cities Changing Diabetes programme. We are a regional hub of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and participate in Space Research & Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) and the hub for respiratory disease (BREATHE), which have industrial collaborations. Our ERDF-funded Leicester Life Sciences Accelerator (LLSA) provides small businesses in the life sciences and healthcare sector with subsidised innovation support and our £2m MRC Confidence in Concept award allows us to drive innovative medical ideas to commercial reality.
Heritage, cultural & creative partnerships: The creation and regeneration of Leicester city’s ‘heritage quarter’ stemmed from the University’s discovery of the remains of King Richard III in 2012. The Richard III Visitor Centre opened in July 2014 opposite Leicester Cathedral where Richard III was reburied in 2015. The University’s Archaeological Service continues to work on projects across the city and county and is supporting plans to revamp and reopen a museum focussing on Roman Leicester at Jewry Wall. In addition to the provision of cultural activity and 3 gallery spaces via our Attenborough Arts Centre, the University is helping to develop a new creative and cultural plan for the city. The University’s Culture & Media Economies Institute (CAMEo) works closely with city and regional partners including the Leicester Creative Business Depot to support research on creative sector development. Three of our academic departments are part of a strategic partnership with the National Trust, supporting the Trust to radically change their approach to equality and diversity including retelling the histories of their properties to include their colonial links.
Innovation support: We established the Innovation Hub in 2017 as the key channel and physical base for interaction with businesses. The Innovation Hub provides business innovation support via specialist Fellows, supports student project opportunities, enterprise education and start up activity. We also support small businesses to develop sustainability audits and strategies and our School of Business has been awarded the Small Business Charter for its work via the Hub. Since the start of lockdown, the Hub has adapted to support business continuity via a ‘Virtual Innovation Hub’ and demand is high.
We have received £6.5m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support our innovation staff and subsidise activities to SMEs since 2017 which has been 100% matched by the University. The Leicester Innovation Accelerator programme links to expertise in marketing/management; data; earth observation and advanced materials. New programmes of support focus on other identified areas including STAR (Space Technology Applications from Research) Accelerator in November 2019 and the Leicester Life Sciences Accelerator in January 2020. We have just been awarded a further £4.3m of ERDF to be matched by the University to continue this work for 3 further years.
Space Park Leicester (SPL): This science & innovation campus is under construction and will be a transformational physical space and knowledge exchange eco-system in the city. SPL is located in north Leicester alongside the National Space Centre – a major visitor attraction created as a result of the University’s space expertise. SPL will house academic groups, students, industrial partners, innovation agencies and 3rd party research partners, working together on collaborative projects and will contain shared offices, state-of-the-art labs and teaching space. The first phase, focussed on earth observation data and its applications will open in spring 2021, with the second phase, focussed on high performance computing and space engineering, and home to 10+ businesses, opening in Autumn 2021. The University was awarded its largest ever grant of £13.75m from Research England for ‘Meteor’. This programme includes match of circa £40m from industry, plus £12m from the University. The award is funding the capital build of the second phase of SPL, plus a major collaborative research programme with industry to dramatically reduce the cost and build-time of high-performance satellites. These phases form the basis of plans to deliver satellite manufacturing on the site, delivering jobs and the attraction of new business investment. We will create pathways into these jobs through the development of new courses and training for the community and our students.
SPL is complemented by a dynamic innovation offer for business including a European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre, the CCF supported SPRINT(see above) and ERDF funded Space Technology project STAR.
Aspect 3: Results
Our overall focus on local growth and regeneration in the last 3 years is partially reflected in our ranking of 9th nationally for regeneration income amongst UK Universities (HEBCI 2018/19). The University has also undertaken an assessment of our local economic and social impact published in June 2020. The report shows that locally, the University contributes £360m annually to Leicester and Leicestershire and supports 1 in 23 (4.3%) jobs in the city and was communicated widely through the media. Each of our major initiatives is overseen by a governance board feeding back results and learning into our Research and Enterprise Committee.
Evidence of quality and impact in our other key strategic programmes is as follows:
Health Partnerships: Since 2017 MRC-funded translational funding of £2.1m has supported work with industry partners to develop biomedical devices, diagnostics and novel therapeutics. Local collaborating companies include Renfrew Design and PBD Biotech. Outputs/outcomes have included:
17 engagement activities/showcases
52 projects working with commercial partners including person exchanges, PhD studentships and long-term risk shared product development activities
Two projects have influenced national healthcare policies and/or scoped new investment areas for pharmaceutical companies
One new patent and support for ongoing IP projection for four other projects
Three ongoing projects with local companies
The establishment of ISO accredited work flows towards ISO accredited diagnostics facilities in line with partnering on NHS molecular diagnostics testing
Going forward the LAHP will provide a vehicle to coalesce activities across local healthcare providers to drive healthcare innovation working closely with Midlands Innovation Health, Midlands Health Alliance and Medilink East Midlands.
Heritage, cultural & creative partnerships: The economic impact on the city of the discovery of Richard III was assessed by Focus Consultants to be upwards of £59m and continues to attract visitors to the heritage quarter of Leicester. This included the development of the Richard III Visitor Centre in partnership with the University next to the Cathedral where Richard III was reinterred. The National Trust have committed to ongoing work with the University on their approach to equality and diversity and socially-engaged research despite their economic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, following successful projects including Humankind and Colonial Countryside.
Innovation Support: Key outcomes delivered through the Innovation Hub team and facilities from 2017 to 2020 are:
Over 500 enquiries and 300+ business engagements
114 innovation projects delivered to support product, service and process development with SMEs
811 participants at technical workshops
1472 participants at Innovation Friday events
19 start-ups supported
90 University-business collaborations
9 jobs created in enterprises supported
31 researchers working in improved research facilities
48 innovations introduced to enterprises supported
1,360 sq. m Innovation Hub Facilities/Space established
In addition, we have been awarded a further £2.9m in research & enterprise project funding as a result of the Hub’s activity including income from Innovate UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Innovate UK Energy Catalyst, UKSA Business Incubator schemes and Leicester Start-up Co-working through the LLEP.
Space Park Leicester (SPL): Industry partners signed up to have a presence at SPL once it opens include space sector leaders (Thales Alenia Space, Lockheed Martin, Airbus), computing giants (HPE and AWS) as well as a range of SMEs. Impact includes:
Inward Investment: SPL is designated and being marketed by Department for International Trade (DIT) as a High Potential Opportunity Zone.
Innovation: SPL is fostering an innovation ecosystem via a £5M Connecting Communities Fund grant to deliver the SPRINT (Space Research & Innovation Network for Technology) project and an investment by European Space Agency in an ESA Business Incubation Centre.
Pioneering Manufacturing: SPL was granted Manufacturing Zone status and we have developed the case for investment in a manufacturing facility for Low Cost Access to Space (LoCAS). If successful, this will be a game-changing development regionally targeting over 1000 new jobs and a £570m GVA increase.
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Public & Community Engagement
Summary of approach
Public and community engagement (PCE) is essential both to our research and to our civic responsibilities in our city and region. It is a two way process informing what we do, as well as giving us the opportunity to pass on knowledge. Specialists in PCE are spread across our university and our innovative approaches include: cultural understanding for health outcomes (Centre for Ethnic Health Research); the needs of refugees (University of Sanctuary programme); working with the victims of hate crime (Centre for Hate Studies); and working with children with profound learning difficulties (Attenborough Arts Centre). With the opening of Space Park Leicester, together with the National Space Centre we will expand our already significant PCE to introduce New Space to all.
Aspect 1: Strategy
Our 2015 institutional strategy included three commitments relating to PCE:
broadening access and participation to learning;
increasing the impact of our research;
outreach and social responsibility as part of our civic role.
We engage with many non-academic publics as part of our teaching, research and civic work. This narrative focusses on our engagement with non-specialist audiences: with end users of services and products developed via our research; local, regional, national and international government and regeneration agencies; local communities; and our alumni. We focus in particular on working with marginalised communities and those with protected characteristics.
Our public and community engagement at the University falls into two overlapping areas:
Institutional engagement as part of our role as a civic university (led by our Chief Marketing & Engagement Officer and Vice Chancellor)
Engagement with and co-production of research (led by our Pro Vice Chancellor for Research & Enterprise)
Academics are encouraged to contribute to PCE both through research and teaching and we have notable centres of excellence in both areas (see Section 3).
Our new institutional strategy, to be launched in 2021, has involved extensive consultation with partners and is centred on the role of our staff and students as ‘Citizens of Change’. It includes an even greater focus on civic engagement and informs our approach to develop PCE activity.
Summary: Commitment to PCE has featured highly at the top of the organisation and with a new Vice Chancellor this has commitment has been increased yet further. We are developing our PCE work in light of our new strategy.
Aspect 2: Support
Funding: We provide funding for staff to undertake public engagement work via Wellcome Trust ISSF funds, ESRC Impact Accelerator Account, an Impact Development Fund, our interdisciplinary Network & Tiger Team funds, and our Uniconnect funding.
Training: Our Doctoral College provides sessional training on developing impact for PhD students and early career researchers. One to one support for academics to design, develop and evaluate projects is provided by our Public Engagement Manager, Professor of Public Engagement, and Research Impact Team which has grown from one to eight posts since 2018. Our Professor of Public Engagement runs a public engagement forum for staff sharing good practice and ideas.
Staffing: Four non-academic Departments provide support via specialist roles: External Relations; Research & Enterprise; Estates; Vice Chancellors Office and Leicester Learning Institute.
Strategic Partnerships: Key institutional-level relationships for PCE include those with Leicester City Council; Leicestershire County Council; University of Leicester NHS Trust; Leicester/shire Local Enterprise Partnership (LLEP); Leicester City of Sanctuary; Citizens UK, National Space Centre & Academy.
Recognition: Our Career Map lays out what is required of academic staff at each stage of their career with clear expectations of public engagement activity and our promotion process recognises PCE activity.
Engagement routes: We showcase a number of PCE projects on our website. Engagement routes for community organisations are linked to specific programmes and projects. Examples include:
Biomedical Research Centre putting patients first;
U.matter supporting community health and wellbeing;
Innovation Hub - our front door for businesses;
DICE (Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement) running events focussed on diversity & inclusion;
Centre for Ethnic Health Research working with seldom heard communities.
Summary: There is resource and expertise in various professional services and academic departments to support PCE. There are strong local and regional institutional partnerships. We continue to work on tying together support and resource for PCE.
Aspect 3: Activity
Research programmes & projects:
We carry out multiple research projects and programmes which include engagement with non-specialists and co-design with end users. Notable current research projects include:
Guidance for schools & students on online sexual harassment led by the School of Media, Communication and Sociology and developed by students, the Association of School and College Leaders, academic partners and the non-profit organisation Sexplain;
Estate Watch – web-based resources developed by the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and social housing tenants & residents to help them fight their corner on tenants’ rights;
Colonial Countryside – a child-led writing and history project about National Trust houses’ colonial connections developed by the University’s Centre for New Writing.
Other notable PCE research programmes:
Our Biomedical Research Centre’s (BRC) Citizen Science project (‘raising community voices’) is a UKRI-funded collaboration with the University Hospitals Leicester and Leicester Citizens through which we have developed a network of community researchers in Leicester identifying health research priorities;
Our Hate Studies Centre bases its research and training on the impact hate crime offences have upon victims, families and wider communities;
The public engagement strand of our Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support (ISSF) programme aims to facilitate institutional culture change which values public engagement;
The Leicester Diabetes Centre, the Leicester Changing Diabetes programme and Centre for Ethnic Health Research run activities and training to develop community participation in health and social care research and are currently researching issues affecting certain communities around equality of access to trials, in the context of COVID-19.
Facilities:
Our University Arts Centre runs a programme of performances, exhibitions, open workshops and funded community projects. The exhibition, performance & studio spaces and café are used by staff, students and the public. The Centre has a focus on inclusion and runs multiple projects for people with disabilities. Our Botanic Garden’s mission is to explore and explain the world of plants. It runs regular community events, workshops and courses and has a 900-strong Friends of the Garden. In addition to its schools programme, the Garden has established a county plant gene-bank run by trained volunteers. We continue to work closely on programmes for schools with the National Space Centre, a visitor attraction set up in partnership with the University based on our expertise in space science & astronomy.
Festivals & Events:
We hold numerous public-facing talks and events run by our Research Institutes and Centres; our Doctoral College; our Doctoral and Professorial Inaugural lectures and those run in partnership with the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. We also run multiple events as part of national festivals such as New Scientist Live!, British Science Week, Royal Society Summer Exhibition, Being Human, Teen Tech, Farnborough Air Show, Refugee Week, New Scientist Live and the Festival of Social Science. Other regular events run by the University include a Festival of Health, Pint of Science, Soapbox Science and our annual Alumni Weekend.
Civic engagement programmes & projects
Our Social & Environmental Impact Team implement our social impact and climate strategy, running and supporting activity which links to both research (eg living labs projects), teaching (eg education for sustainable development), enterprise (eg sustainability audits for businesses provided via our Innovation Hub) and monitoring the university’s own environmental management systems.
The University supports oral history projects across the Midlands via our East Midlands Oral History Archive and as regional lead for the British Library’s project ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’. The University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) undertakes community and outreach work as well as commercial fieldwork. ULAS’s work on the Waterside regeneration development in Leicester led to thousands of people visiting the exposed Roman mosaics in 2017.
As a University of Sanctuary we provide free English language classes and pastoral care for refugee and asylum seekers plus places on our pre-sessional English language programmes.
We are running seven free Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) relating to our research and teaching specialisms. We work with local schools to both train teachers and to widen participation to higher education. The University is part of the REACH partnership which supports the progression of under-represented groups into Higher Education locally. We have also developed a specific partnership with New College Leicester, identified by the City Council as requiring particular support, providing staff support on careers/employability and the maths & science curriculum. Significant numbers of our postdoctoral researchers in Life Sciences have become East Midlands STEM ambassadors, working with schools across Leicestershire.
Summary: The University runs a wide range of activity linking to excellence in both research and teaching.
Aspect 4: Results and learning
Our recent Economic and Social Impact Report shows top level outputs and outcomes of the University’s community engagement work as an institution including:
Engagement with 26,000 children each year via our Widening Participation activities
More than 100 refugees and asylum seekers attending English Language classes as part of the City of Sanctuary programme
33,000 people trained to deliver CPR via the Heartwize programme with a defibrillator in every school in Leicester
14,000 people a year attending public lectures
50,000 visitors per year to the Botanic Gardens including 11,000 school children
110,000 visitors per year to the Attenborough Arts Centre of which 10% have a disability
113,400 registrations on our MOOCs (2017/18-2019/20) with 10,740 completing at least 90% of the whole course
We assess ourselves against a number of external frameworks. Our research and civic engagement activity annually against UN sustainable development goals. This supports our submission to the Times Higher Impact rankings where the University was ranked 21st globally in 2020 and first globally under the ‘Life on Land’ development goal. We have also received an Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award in early 2020 for our support of the Defence and Armed Forces community.
For block grant-funded activity via Wellcome Trust ISSF and ESRC Impact Acceleration Account we have governance boards whose role includes reviewing PCE activity and outcomes.
Many of our programmes and projects have rigorous assessment/evaluation frameworks and excellent measures of success, examples of which include the following:
The NCCPE’s triggers of change are used as guiding principles for the PCE strand of our Wellcome Trust ISSF programme and are monitored by our Public Engagement Manager and via an executive group and board.
Space School UK (SSUK) is a summer residential programme for secondary school aged students, held at the University each year. An evaluation of its impact concluded that SSUK provides opportunities that are critical for them to establish careers within the STEM and space industry. Stronger than average positive influences were reported by women and students from non-selective schools.
We were awarded University of Sanctuary status in November 2018 and have a user-focussed approach to supporting refugees and asylum seekers in our city. Approximately 450 ‘sanctuary students’ attended English classes (2015-2020); 87 sanctuary students took up a free place on our Pre-Sessional English Programme (2017-2020); 10 sanctuary students took up free classes as part of the process to requalify as a medical professional (2018-20).
Summary: Measures of success for specific projects are robust, in particular where externally funded, and there are areas of excellence. We use a range of evaluation methods as relevant to the project aims and participants.
Aspect 5: Acting on results
Learning from individual projects and programmes is fed back into those programmes and wider opportunities via our specialist staff. Examples of how learning is feeding back into our institutional approach:
Our Biomedical Research Centre’s Citizen Science project is providing a new and exciting approach to developing a network of community health researchers, based in the most deprived wards of our city.
Our School of Museum Studies works with the sector and its audiences to devise parts of their curriculum - using principles of co-production to develop teaching material on co-production.
A British Council funded research project on trauma-informed pedagogy, is looking how we can best support our refugee and asylum seeker students and improve our University of Sanctuary programme. We lead a forum to support and learn from other Universities of Sanctuary.
Our Research Code of Conduct requires researchers to develop a collaboration agreement with any external organisation or individual before starting the research requires acknowledgement of the contribution of all participants in publications.
Summary: Individual projects and programmes have procedures for feeding back into institutional learning and use a wide range of methods. Sharing of good practice and feeding into strategy could be improved.
For further information, please send queries to red@le.ac.uk