Baker, K;
Ward, S;
Turner, B;
Webber, J;
Sweetapple, C;
Drake, P;
Thomas, D;
... Butler, D; + view all
(2020)
Co-producing research with academics and
industry to create a more resilient UK water
sector.
Research for All
, 4
(2)
pp. 150-168.
10.14324/RFA.04.2.02.
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Abstract
Societal, economic and environmental impact generated by academic research is a key focus of publicly funded research in the UK. Drawing on experiences from the Safe & SuRe project, a five-year research project that was co-produced with industry, this paper explores the challenges, learnings and benefits of coproducing research with academics and practitioners to create a more resilient UK water sector. Three aspects of the project are explored in detail: the use of a steering group, co-developing research intensively with a water company, and co-dissemination industry-facing events. Emerging themes include: (1) benefits of the industry steering group to develop working relationships and trust among the group; (2) increased dialogue and sharing of information between industry and academics going beyond the one-way communication more commonly reported by STEM academics; and (3) the value of co-disseminating research to maintain and engage new connections and spark new research questions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Co-producing research with academics and industry to create a more resilient UK water sector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.04.2.02 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.04.2.02 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 Baker, Ward, Turner, Webber, Sweetapple, Drake, Thomas, Melville-Shreeve, Fu, Cherington-Rimmell, Farmani and Butler. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | co-creation, co-dissemination, co-production, engagement, evaluation, water sector |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125354 |
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