Bringing together our Open City Research and Include Everyone pledges from our manifesto, we’re always learning how to better value and uplift the knowledge that exists within local communities.
We aim to support community leaders to develop and celebrate this knowledge on their terms, leading to research that’s relevant and has the power to positively impact communities.
Research Collective is about challenging who can be a researcher, what questions are asked, and what the process for investigating them looks like.
Research Collective is the community-led strand of Open City Research. It developed from our Hidden Health programme, where three young researchers took the lead in developing and carrying out projects to explore questions about areas of health that often go unseen.
Through this programme, we work with groups and individuals who are themselves part of a local community and whose voices may be less centred in research. We provide these community researchers with the funding and practical support to identify a topic or question that is important to them and explore it from start to finish.
Our partners work closely with us to help us tailor support to their needs and projects, and challenge our understanding of what the process of research can look like.
