Working with University Development Teams
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Sally Bowden,
Centre for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences
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There are approx. 165,000
academics in the UK.
How do you find the right
person or team for your
needs?
Needle in a haystack?
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Institutional Structures
Vice Chancellor
PVC for
another
portfolio
PVC for
another
portfolio
Contracts
Pro-Vice
Chancellor
for Research & KE
PVC for
another
portfolio
PVC for
another
portfolio
Research Services including:
Research Policy
Awards Team
Research Development Managers/ KE Executives
(working at Faculty and/or School level)
Engineering
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Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Sciences
Medicine
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So you want a partnership…questions
you need to think about first
What are your institutional priorities
and does your project fit with these
priorities?
Will you need
money/resources for your
plans?
Do you have institutional support
for the development of a
collaboration?
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What do you need from a partnership?
Do you need a historian to help you
with contextualising a collection?
Do you need a computer scientist to
help you develop a crowd sourcing tool
to unlock thousands of hours of online
volunteer time?
Do you need a business expert to help
identify new business models and a
copyright expert to understand the
implications of making data available?
A key advantage to working with a
University is that you can draw together
expertise from a broad range of
disciplines to suit your needs.
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Being a Partner on a Funding Application
The support of non-academic partners on
University-led research bids is an important
indicator of the value of a research proposal in
terms of its relevance to the wider public and the
potential impact of the proposed research.
It is now the norm to have multiple nonacademic partners involved in the process of
research and/or as named beneficiaries of
research.
Universities are also increasingly asked to be
partners on sector-led bids.
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Being a Partner on a Funding Application
To support a University-led proposal the non-academic partner is required to write a
letter of support that outlines why the project is of value to their organisation and what
they can offer in support of the project in terms of in-kind (e.g. staff time, use of venue)
or cash contributions.
The costs associated with the non-academic
partners’ contribution to a proposal (e.g.
staff time to participate) can not be budgeted
into a funding application unless the funding
scheme specifically states that such costs
are eligible.
Independent Research Organisations (IROs)
can include its staff costs on funding
applications where the IRO is acting as an
applicant institution.
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Case Studies at Nottingham
Southwell Workhouse Project (match funded)
John Player Advertising Archive (partner-led
funding bid)
Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange
Project: Archives, Assets and Audiences
(University-led funding bid)
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The Southwell Workhouse Project
A collaboration between the
National Trust and the University of
Nottingham
The National Trust’s ambitions for
the property include a
reinterpretation of the site, new
visitor facilities and the launch of an
educational centre.
Photo by Jacqueline Anderson
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The Southwell Workhouse Project
The initial stage of the project was
sponsored through a match fund
arrangement between the NT and the
University to support a Research
Associate to explore the archive
holdings and draw out individual life
stories of people who experienced the
Workhouse.
The second stage will focus on how
these life stories and archive
resources can be used to engage
existing and new audiences with the
Workhouse property, using new
technologies.
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The John Player Advertising Archive
A collaboration between Nottingham Museums
and Galleries Service and the University of
Nottingham.
The John Player Advertising Archive
was given to NMGS in the 1990s with
a small dowry. The dowry wasn’t quite
big enough to cover the costs of
cataloguing the collection and so the
collection remained on pallets in a
store. The ambition of the NMGS was
to understand what was in the
collection and to be able to use it for
exhibitions, public engagement and
educational purposes.
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The John Player Advertising Archive
Working with academics in the
Department of History and the Business
School, NMGS applied for a Technology
Strategy Board Knowledge Transfer
Partnership to fund a KT Associate to
catalogue, mine and help
commercialise the collection.
The project helped achieve a copyright
agreement and has led to two public
exhibitions, an oral history project with
ex-workers and educational resources.
The project is now being continued
through an AHRC collaborative doctoral
award.
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The Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Project
(CEKE): Archive, Assets and Audiences
A collaboration between the
Universities of Nottingham,
Nottingham Trent and Leicester
working with a range of regional
and national non-academic
partners.
The project aims to enable new
exchanges between academic
disciplines, and between partners,
to explore how archives and
collections can be used remotely
to engage audiences with heritage
sites and other venues.
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The Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Project
(CEKE): Archive, Assets and Audiences
This AHRC-funded project provides
seed-corn funds for pilot projects
and other forms of exchange
(visiting fellowships and internships)
and we will use the pilots to develop
new collaborative projects for future
funding opportunities.
The Southwell Workhouse and the
Nottingham Museums and Galleries
Service are partners on the project
and where possible we encourage
these existing projects to develop
pilot projects under the CEKE
programme.
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