Research Engagement Resources
We support research engagement and collaboration which addresses societal challenges and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Research engagement is an active partnership between researchers and stakeholders (the people who will be most interested in and affected by the issues it addresses), in the creation of new knowledge and practices.
Engaged research is a type of research engagement which is designed collaboratively by researchers and stakeholders (particularly people whose voices don’t feature very often in research), to maximise societal impact.
We hope you will find the TU Dublin Research Engagement Framework useful in planning your research engagement. We are also developing checklists for the different stages of the framework, we are gradually adding these to the Research Engagement Framework Checklists section below.
Access the full framework by clicking the thumbnail image below and/or watch the video introduction.
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TU Dublin has an Engaged Research Network for staff and PhD students. The network's podcast about engaged research is available on Spotify, you can find more details here.
We can help you to build your research engagement capacity, whether you are a TU Dublin colleague or a community or statutory organisation, social enterprise, or an industry partner wanting to support positive societal change through collaboration. We provide a range of supports including workshops, mentoring, networking events, resources, tailored assistance, and drop-in sessions.
Contact Dr Catherine Bates, Research Engagement Lead, at engagementandimpact@tudublin.ie.
We are developing a series of checklists based on the Research Engagement Framework, and adding them as they are ready.
- Checklist for stage 1 - identifying stakeholders
- Checklist for stage 3 - building relationships for mutual benefit
- Checklist for stage 4 - collaboratively designing research projects, and clarifying ethics, roles and responsibilities
Please do revisit this page later to find additional checklists.
At a national level there are very useful resources on doing engaged research produced by Campus Engage, primarily aimed at university partners – see for example their recently updated ‘how-to guides’ and case studies here.
There are also useful resources available from The Wheel, for example a research proposal form for a university partner to clarify why they might want to partner with a community organisation. For community partners they have produced a helpful research planning template, and sample memorandum of understanding.
There is a wealth of resources relating to Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) in research available from the PPI Ignite Network - these resources are relevant to all kinds of engaged research, even though they focus on health and social sciences. One good example is the Charities & Researchers Partnering Guide from Health Research Charities Ireland and the PPI Ignite Network.