
News & Updates
July Newsletter 2024
This has been our busiest month yet as we prepared and submitted our bid for Implementation Phase funding, all the while carrying on with our pilot project with Exeter University — identifying the ‘Scilly Shrew’ — and welcoming new Strategic Stakeholders to our network.
New Strategic Stakeholders
This month, the CRN welcomed three new strategic stakeholders - the Islands’ Partnership, The Isles of Scilly National Landscape Partnership, and Tresco Island. We are thrilled to have such a wide variety of stakeholders supporting our important initiative. Having organisations like these committed to supporting locally-led research is a fundamental part of integrating the work of the CRN into the community and delivering local benefits from the results of research. Our strategic stakeholders can help to promote the work we are doing and guide those interested in research towards our network. We can all learn and benefit from research and share the impact across the islands; having a large assembly of stakeholders means the results can be disseminated widely across Scilly. If you are interested in your organisation become a strategic stakeholder, please get in touch.
Implementation Phase Bid Submitted
The deadline to submit our bid to UKRI for Implementation Phase funding has finally arrived. We have been busy making sure everything is prepared for our application, aiming to share as much as possible about what we have been doing with UKRI and their delivery partner The Young Foundation so they could gain a full insight into our progress and plans. These past several months have been especially interesting with the advancement of our pilot projects, the Community Advocate scheme, the creation of this newsletter, and much more. It was challenging to include everything whilst keeping to a strict word count; we made use of providing both video and written testimonies as well as creating infographics to tell the story of the CRN. Our bid was submitted on Thursday, and we await the funders’ decision in September. In the meantime, we’ll continue to develop our plans and progress our pilot projects.
Feedback
Please do keep sharing your thoughts about the Community Research Network with us. How do you feel about our communication? Are there aspects of the CRN you don’t understand or would like to know more about? Would you like to be involved in our pilot research projects, or to start your own research project? Are there any barriers to yours (or others) participation?