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Engaging Key Stakeholders


Advance the rate of innovation from our investments by developing forward-looking relationships that identify and address the needs of users of research.

Building and sustaining relationships with key partners and collaborators is essential in realising the full potential of UK research and its impact in today’s global environment. Working in partnership generates new ideas, policies, and insights into stakeholders’ needs, but also leads to an improved understanding of the research and skills needed for particular sectors. Engaging with the beneficiaries of research has a wider value of bringing together different perspectives, developing new drivers for cultural, societal and economic impact.

Coordination with other organisations ensures that public research investment is applied with the greatest efficiency and effectiveness and RCUK has partnerships which leverage funding from the private, public and third sectors.

RCUK will:

  • Influence universities to recognise and reward activities that generate impact from our funded research and researchers.
  • Develop and sustain focussed relationships with key partners including users, other funders and academia to enable increased knowledge exchange and use of research.
  • Work with partners in the private, public and third sectors to focus on maximising the opportunities, and minimising barriers, for new collaborative ways of working or training, especially in key target sectors and in cross-council research.

Examples of working in partnership:

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