Creating a UK community partner network: building capacity, stimulating change.

该项目的主旨是促进文化转变，将适当和包容的社区参与纳入包括艺术和人文学科在内的跨学科研究。它将改善社区合作伙伴的基础设施支持，从而加强社区合作伙伴领导和参与社区大学合作项目的能力。学术界、研究委员会和高等教育政策领域更普遍地应该从随后出现的伙伴关系中受益。这一竞标直接来自“建立社区大学伙伴关系弹性”，这是一个由社区合作伙伴领导的当前连接社区计划（CCP）项目，由大学学者支持，致力于支持社区合作伙伴以他们选择的方式建立他们的集体能力。该项目为社区合作伙伴网络建立了一个清晰的长期愿景，该网络由国家公众参与协调中心（NCCPE）主持，并得到了首席研究员Hart和其他参与竞标的学者的支持。由于目前的CCP项目，已经有了一个新兴的网络。到目前为止，许多社区合作伙伴都与社会科学学者合作，也有少数与艺术界的学者合作。我们需要巩固这个网络，并且必须扩大它，使其包括更多与艺术和人文学者合作的社区伙伴。新加入的合作者还将帮助网络更具包容性，包括年轻人、心理健康服务用户、女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性人（LGBT）社区伙伴（以及他们的学术伙伴）。下一阶段的发展将使该网络能够更明确地与来自其他8个CC项目的社区合作伙伴和学者，以及许多新加入CCP的合作者建立联系。它还将促进从国际同事那里更广泛地学习，英国在社区伙伴关系领导方面有很多值得学习的地方。与建立社区大学伙伴关系弹性一样，来自许多不同学科的学者在支持和促进它方面发挥着明确的作用，包括利用早期职业研究人员的热情。该项目将寻求通过以下方式发展网络：-鼓励和促进参与互联社区项目和其他社区大学合作伙伴关系的更广泛的社区合作伙伴的参与-更充分地利用艺术和人文学科的观点，为如何最好地推进这项工作提供见解（通过与互联社区项目中的其他项目合作）-促进英国和国际组织之间的学习具有社区大学合作工作经验，特别是从事艺术和人文学科相关项目的工作-开发资源和支持基础设施，为社区大学合作伙伴提供平台，以发展其区域和国家的声音；本次竞标的四位学术合作者特别关注艺术和人文研究人员及其合作伙伴如何为实现更平等和有效的伙伴关系工作带来新的视角，同时保持发展有价值研究所需的严谨性。所有学术合作者都与来自英国各地的一系列社区合作伙伴合作，积极寻求与大学建立有效的关系，并热衷于看到这项工作的发展。该项目将确保更广泛的社区合作伙伴、他们的大学同事和高等教育政策部门能够从这项工作中受益并为其提供信息。

The thrust of this project is to contribute to a cultural shift that embeds appropriate and inclusive community engagement in research across academic disciplines, including the arts and humanities. It will improve community partner infrastructure support so that community partner capacity to lead on, and engage with, community university partnership projects is enhanced. Academics, research councils and the higher education policy arena more generally should benefit from the partnerships that then emerge. This bid has emerged directly from 'Building Community University Partnership Resilience', a current Connected Communities Programme (CCP) project led by community partners, and championed by university academics committed to supporting community partners to build their collective capacity in ways they choose. That project has established a clear long term vision for a community partner network hosted by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) with support from Principal Investigator Hart and the other academics signed up to this bid. As a result of the current CCP project, there is already an emergent network. Thus far, many of the community partners involved work with social science academics, and a handful with academics from the arts. Consolidation of the network is needed, and it must be expanded to include more community partners working with arts and humanities academics. The new collaborators included will also help the network to be more inclusive, with young people, mental health service users and Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) community partners (and their academic partners) on board. This next phase of development will enable the network to connect more explicitly with community partners and academics from 8 other CC projects, alongside many collaborators new to the CCP. It will also facilitate wider learning from international colleagues from whom the UK has much to learn in relation to community partnership leadership. As with Building Community University Partnership Resilience, there is a clear role for academics from many different disciplines to play in supporting and promoting it, including harnessing the enthusiasm of early career researchers. The project will seek to develop the network by:- Encouraging and facilitating a wider range of community partners involved in Connected Communities Programme projects and other community-university partnerships to get involved- Drawing more fully on arts and humanities perspectives to provide insights into how best to take this work forward (through collaborating with other projects in the Connected Communities Programme)- Facilitating learning between UK and international organisations already experienced in community university partnership working, particularly those working on arts and humanities related projects - Developing resources and support infrastructure to provide a platform for community partners working with universities to develop their regional and national voice, adding their experiences and insights to policy and funding debate Four academic collaborators on this bid are particularly focused on how arts and humanities researchers and their partners can bring fresh perspectives to enabling more equal and effective partnership work, whilst maintaining the rigour necessary to develop research of value. All academic collaborators have partnered with a range of community partners from across the UK, actively seeking to develop effective relationships with universities and keen to see this work develop. This project will ensure that a wider group of community partners, their university colleagues, and the HE policy sector, are able to benefit from and inform this work.