Engaged Researcher Online - Identifying Stakeholders And Collaborators

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This training is for researchers (PhDs, early career researchers or junior faculty members) who want to develop a research collaboration or project with a non-academic organisation (e.g. business, charity, NGO, local authority, social enterprise), but are unsure whom to collaborate with or how to find the contact details of the potential collaborator(s) they identified. The session will start with a brief overview of collaboration options and then present a deep dive (and related exercise) into stakeholder analysis and how to approach it, as a means to identify needed and nice-to-have collaborators. The exercise will be followed by some insights on best (and worst) practice. The session will end with some tips on how to reach out to desired collaborators, in the absence of previous/existing contacts. The group session will be followed by the opportunity for a one-to-one 15-minute consultation to work through ideas specific to your project.

The training will be led by Dr Tanja Collavo. Tanja completed a PhD in management studies at Said Business School, University of Oxford and, since the autumn of 2019, has been working as Research Engagement and Impact Manager at Cambridge Judge Business School, where she supports faculty in engaging with non-academic organisations and in promoting their existing impact and engagement work. Additionally, she has developed a training guide for early career researchers on how to interact with businesses for the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. She is currently writing a book on how to start and manage research collaborations for early career researchers, and she is co-authoring a paper on how to foster knowledge exchange to combat illegal wildlife trade.

• PhD students
• Post-docs
• Researchers
• Public Engagement Professionals

Number of sessions: 2

• Non-academic collaboration options
• Stakeholder analysis
• Reaching out to unknown people for collaborations

• Provide an overview of options to develop a research collaboration or project with a non-academic organisation (e.g. business, charity, NGO, local authority, social enterprise)
• Explain how to carry out a stakeholder analysis to identify needed and nice-to-have collaborators

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• assess if collaboration is the way to go and, if so, what collaboration might work best;
• perform a stakeholder analysis;
• gather ideas about ways to identify the right collaborator in an organisation, and to get their contact details.

Presentations, exercise, optional one-to-one consultation with the trainer.

Good internet connection: the group session will be held in Zoom, while the 15-min consultations will be held in Microsoft Teams.

To think in concrete terms about stakeholders’ analysis, participants are invited to join the session with an idea of a collaboration project they would like to start with a non-academic organisation or a research project/findings that they would like to share with non-academic audiences.

If you have troubles joining the sessions or have any queries, please contact Selen Etingu-Breslaw (selen.etingubreslaw@admin.cam.ac.uk) or Giulia Bertolotti (gb498@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

One mandatory 90-minute session, and one optional 15-minute consultation.

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