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，以制定他们的研究问题，根据一个组织的确定的需求。该网站借鉴了参与性研究的原则，我们很自豪能得到移民权利网络的支持，以使该项目启动。我们已从八个不同的大学部门和中心得到表示，他们认为这项计划是值得的。他们的相关学生和学者将可以使用在线设施，移民支持团体可能会列出数百个研究想法和需求。网站将：1）定期更新：与移民权利网络和www.example.com合作asylum-network.com，邀请移民支助界每六个月增加和更新他们的研究需求。选项将允许学者和移民支持团体指定他们的研究兴趣，并根据移民健康等领域的关键字进行搜索，庇护、拘留和法律的问题，或按区域。3）由学术机构主办：目的是创建一个自我维持的网站，在项目结束后无限期存在。埃克塞特大学将主办该网站。4）信息丰富：培训材料、行动包和在整个研究过程中与移民支持团体有效合作的成功方法将包括在网站上。

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.