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Target Audience: The workshop is open to academics, research staff, and PGR students, and structured around facilitated small-group work.

This is a live in-person event as part of Research Integrity and Culture Week (RICW).  It is a 'one off' and will not have a waiting list.

This interactive workshop explores how research culture and integrity are shaped by the ways academia collaborates with third sector organisations, with a particular focus on the Glasgow context. Bringing together academics, research staff, Knowledge Exchange colleagues, and PGR students, the session examines collaboration not as a one-way process of engagement, but as a shared practice that requires alignment of values, incentives, capacity, and power.

Through facilitated small-group discussions, participants will identify common barriers to collaboration, explore mismatches between academic research needs and third sector realities, and co-develop practical approaches for more accessible, ethical, and sustainable partnerships. The workshop also addresses structural challenges, including limitations of current Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) models for third sector organisations and the impact of HE financial pressures on third sector engagement, inviting participants to consider creative and realistic workarounds within existing constraints.

The session is designed to be practical, reflective, and solutions-oriented, offering attendees concrete ideas and frameworks they can apply in future research collaborations.

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. Critically examine common cultural, practical, and structural barriers to collaboration between academia and third sector
2. Identify and articulate mismatches between academic research needs, third sector capacity, and the training and incentive structures facing researchers, particularly PGRs and early-career staff.
3. Apply principles of research integrity and ethical practice to the design of collaborative research partnerships beyond the university.
4. Assess the impact of structural disincentives, including current KTP models and HE financial pressures, on third sector engagement.
5. Generate practical, context-sensitive approaches and creative workarounds that support more accessible, reciprocal, and sustainable collaboration within existing constraints.

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For on-campus activity:

• Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble 
• Hybrid provision is available [if organisers can arrange]
• There will be audience participation
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be several breaks throughout the session
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• In line with current University health and safety guidance, attendees may wish to use face masks. The room will have either mechanical ventilation or passive ventilation (i.e. open windows)
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

Prerequisites