Wednesday 18 December 2024
Help us tailor a new short course for your organisation
What is the course for?
Co(l)laboratory researchers, Patrick Keen and Matthew Young, are developing a new short course to help Nottingham’s community-focused organisations to identify and address their key challenges by improved research thinking and skills.
Why are we offering it?
Research has broad application, with potential to help community-focused organisations improve every aspect of their strategy and operations, including strategy-making, community focused engagement, operational improvement, and funding applications.
It is our mission to help you harness research thinking and skills to better achieve your goals.
Why do we need your help?
We need your help to design the course so that it addresses your priority needs, in a way that suits you. We are therefore now looking for partners to help us develop a short course that will directly address their key requirements, through participation in:
- One of two half-day focus groups – 24th March 2025 (morning or afternoon) choose a time and date to suit you!
- A pilot training course, in June 2025 (date tbc)
Who should take part?
We invite anyone from Nottingham’s community-focused organisations who believes research training might benefit them – including staff, leaders, and volunteers – to participate in discussions–to discuss:
- What are the key challenges faced by your organisation
- How could improved research thinking and skills help you overcome these challenges
- What form of training would be most effective for you/your organisation
Focus groups will last up to 2 hours, and every participant will be rewarded for their time with a £20 electronic high street shopping voucher.
How do I register?
If you are interested, please sign up for one of the two focus groups using the link below.
Please note this project is governed by the relevant NTU research ethics procedures and the Research Ethics Committee for Art, Architecture, Design and Humanities (AADH). Participants will be asked to consent to the collection, analysis, storage and use of their data so we can co-create the short course with you and share our learning from the process. All necessary steps will be taken to ensure your privacy, including data anonymisation and secure storage. Details will be provided to you before the focus group meetings – so you can have any questions answered and decide freely whether or not you wish to take part.
Should you have any queries, please contact: Patrick Keen at patrick.keen2015@my.ntu.ac.uk or Matthew Young at matthew.young@ntu.ac.uk