Project Lead
Anne Laybourne
Team Members
John Braime
Joanna Socha
Funders
Description
At the community research initiative, we connect London’s voluntary and community sector with UCL to collaboratively develop research projects that matter. Projects are carried out by master’s students as part of their dissertation research study.
There are two main aims to CRIS:
- To enhance the UCL master’s student experience through knowledge exchange with experts from outside academia.
- To support and promote collaborative research that is societally useful.
We work very flexibly to offer as personalized a service as possible. Students can be involved in several ways: bookable personal consultation appointments, events, skills sessions, brokering, knowledge exchange meetings, and access to documentation to support collaborative work.
Voluntary and community sector organisations can work with us to identify knowledge gaps or needs in their business and develop these into topics or ideas for research. These opportunities are published online on the CRIs Ideas Directory at the start of each academic year for new master’s student cohort.
The aims of ISIKLE are to scale up the service, understand how voluntary and community sector organisations would like to work with us, and ensure the initiative is fully accessibility e.g. students with caring responsibilities, international students, or part-time students.
For more details, visit the Community Research Initiative for Students website.
Brook
Healthy lives for young people. Brook’s fight for young people’s rights, amplify their voice and campaign to protect their specialist services. By changing perceptions and developing skills, Brook’s give professionals the knowledge and confidence to deliver the quality services that young people need and deserve.
Global Feedback
Feedback is a campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming our food system. To do this we challenge power, catalyse action and empower people to achieve positive change.
The Felix Project
The Felix Project collects fresh, nutritious food that cannot be sold. We deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.
Haringey Council
A local authority for the London Borough of Haringey in Greater London
Camden Council
A local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London.
Spires
South London based charity that helps hundreds of homeless and disadvantaged people all year round.
One World Trust
The One World Trust was created by cross-party Members of Parliament who believed global governance can be improved to better protect the interests of all humanity as well as our environment.
Shelter
Shelter is a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in United Kingdom.
The Young Brent Foundation
Young Brent Foundation’s aim is to create an evidence based, needs led community partnership model that unites a diverse voluntary youth sector, and creates a strong united voice, equipping members with the training, resources and financial support they need to increase overall capacity and develop a more sustainable future to benefit young people.
The Mix
The Mix is a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25 via online, social and mobile.
For more details, visit the Community Research Initiative for Students website.
Strands
Strand 2: Developing Community Research Engagement (CRIS)
