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Helen Colley

Helen Colley. Professor of Lifelong Learning School of Education and Professional Development. Large international partnership. SSHRC – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connections Programme - new funding stream Partnership: Local community organisations

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Helen Colley

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  1. Helen Colley Professor of Lifelong Learning School of Education and Professional Development

  2. Large international partnership • SSHRC – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada • Connections Programme - new funding stream • Partnership: • Local community organisations • Across lead partner’s university (Toronto) • Internationally with other universities • Interdisciplinary • Up to $2m, up to 5 years

  3. A long story... • Importance of long-term networking • AND of supporting early career researchers • 2001 – BERA Conference, follow-up meeting • 2002 – leads to invitation to present at seminar, other speaker from Toronto • Collaboration at specialist conferences • Reciprocal Visiting Fellowships/Professorships • Edited book project – highly collaborative - TRUST • Decision to work on a partnership bid

  4. Putting the partnership together • SSHRC Connections Programme – big & complex • Winning support from UofT crucial • Demonstrating GENUINE partnership • US colleague/myself in visiting positions – ‘being in the same room’ • Initial focus • Call across UofT for interested colleagues • ‘Brainstorming’ meeting – also decides... • Approaches to other colleagues in US/Canada

  5. Fitting in? • “Society & Security” • Overall focus of bid – not my track record! • But ‘gap in knowledge’ indicates specialist role I can bring • Other experts here at Huddersfield • Sharing our own & other relevant publications • Contributing research questions • International workshop • Submission of first-stage outline bid

  6. Next steps... • Visiting Prof’ship timed around result of outline bid • Pulling the UK ‘cohort’ together • Funding issues with SSHRC – need to negotiate with Huddersfield • Small parallel bid to Gerda Henkel Foundation • Capacity building for Huddersfield staff • Large parallel bid to ESRC (Plan B Leverhulme, Nuffield, etc) • Replicate process of forming partnership

  7. Next intellectual steps... • Moving from focus on empirical gap in knowledge and governance of project • ...to develop the ‘theoretical puzzle’ • What will the focus of the ‘social science’ be? • Less formal aspect of partnership • Balance between overall programme of work and individual work packages

  8. Eyes on the prize... If we win SSHRC bid... • Full-time PhD student or post-doc here • Involvement in leadership of project • Funding for international workshops and summer schools • Joint publications • Local, regional, national and international impact

  9. Eyes on the prize... Even if we don’t win SSHRC funding • Intellectual development • Support for other bids here, including international partnership • Joint writing and presentations • Future possibilities for joint working • Broader networking possibilities for Huddersfield

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