Partnerships with non-academic stakeholders
In several of our past and present research projects we have worked and are working with local groups and practitioners to help identify research questions, contribute to research design and development, and pursue routes for disseminating diverse and at times marginalized perspectives to a range of different audiences. We also have long established working relationships with local health, educational and outreach institutions such as the Newcastle Centre for Life, Northern Genetics Service, Institute of Human Genetics (now Institute of Medical Genetics), the Institute for Ageing Research, the Newcastle Fertility Centre and the Northeast Stem Cell Institute, where we provide ethics advice, develop joint research collaborations, and enable new opportunities for debate and dialogue.
Examples of current partnership activity:
- The ESRC project which began in 2011 Embodied Selves in Transition: Disabled Young Bodies includes a group of local disabled young people who form the research panel, giving input to research design, analysis and dissemination;
- Working with colleagues in the Institute of Health and Society, a local community filmmaker Arpeggio films, local schools, and organisations of disabled young people, we are currently co-producing a film which will address issues around disability and sport and is due to be launched in 2013;
- The Centrefold project, a Wellcome Trust-funded animated film about labiaplasty involving film makers and clinicians, in 2011 asked Jackie Leach Scully to advise on ethical aspects of recruitment and implementation;
- The ESRC-funded project launched in 2011 Faithful Judgements: The Role of Religion in Laypeople's Ethical Evaluations of New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies, in collaboration with colleagues at Durham University, works with local faith community and women’s groups who give advice on access, recruitment and dissemination.
Examples of previous partnership activity