Research Matchmaking: Linking the Demand and Supply of Research Expertise for Migrant Support in the UK and US

我们的网站将允许移民支持组织在线输入他们的研究需求，以便在研究过程开始时通知本科生，硕士，博士和专业学术研究。学生和学者将能够利用该网站，以便根据组织确定的需求制定他们的研究问题。该网站借鉴了参与性研究的原则，我们很自豪能够得到移民权利网络的支持，使这个项目得以启动。我们已经从八个不同的大学院系和中心得到了一个指示，他们会发现这个项目是值得的。他们的相关学生和学者将可以访问一个在线设施，在那里，移民支持团体可能会列出数百个研究想法和需求。这将提高这些部门和中心进行的研究的影响。该网站将：1)定期更新：与移民权利网络和asylum-network.com合作，移民支持社区将被邀请每六个月增加和更新他们的研究需求。2)交互式：选项将允许学者和移民支持团体指定他们的研究兴趣，并根据移民健康、庇护、拘留和法律问题等领域的关键字或按地区进行搜索。3)由学术机构主持：目的是创建一个自我维持的网站，该网站将在项目生命周期之外无限期存在。埃克塞特大学将主办这个网站。4)信息丰富：在整个研究过程中与移民支持团体有效合作的培训材料、行动包和成功方法将包括在网站上。这项研究计划是要求资金来设计，启动和“自主”网站概述。

Our website will allow migrant support organisations to enter their research needs online in order to inform undergraduate, Masters, PhD and professional academic research right at the beginning of the research process. Students and academics will be able to draw on the website in order to formulate their research questions in the light of an organisation's identified needs.The website draws upon principles of participatory research, and we are proud to have the backing of the Migrant Rights Network in order to get the project off the ground. We have had an indication from eight separate university departments and centres that they will find the project worthwhile. Their associated students and academics will have access to an online facility where potentially hundreds of research ideas and needs will be listed by migrant support groups. This will enhance the impact of the research conducted these departments and centres.The website will be:1) Updated regularly: in collaboration with the Migrant Rights Network and asylum-network.com, the migrant support community would be invited to add and update their research needs every six months.2) Interactive: options will allow academics and migrant support groups to specify their research interests and search according to keywords in areas such as migrant health, asylum, detention and legal issues, or by region.3) Hosted by an academic institution: The intention would be to create a self-sustaining website that would exist indefinitely beyond the life of the project. The University of Exeter would host the website.4) Informative: training materials, action packs and successful approaches in working effectively with migrant support groups throughout the research process would be included on the website.This research proposal is to ask for funds to design, launch and 'autonomise' the website as outlined.