RISE – Engaged Research in the Social Economy

This will enable more engaged research, a practice that creates more socially impactful projects through collaboration between researchers and communities. Community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises can be the key to accessing communities and practitioner expertise and achieving real change, but they can lack the capacity necessary to navigate the research landscape. RISE will address this need.

By participating in the RISE programme, workers of social economy organisations will get:

• The skills necessary to navigate the research landscape as non-academics and in partnership with researchers.
• The tools and confidence to engage in research, in a way that is strategic for their organisation and beneficial to their service users.