Open to all Social Sciences staff and students.
Contract research is an alternative approach to conducting funded research whereby a study is carried out on behalf of a ‘client’ with mostly pre-determined objectives. In this presentation we will discuss our experiences of navigating contract research. This includes the process of applying for it, what it involves, and tips for applying for future contract research. We will also cover some of the challenges we have experienced when pursuing/doing contract research, and how we have approached handling those challenges. For example, one challenge relates to the intellectual property of the research findings and restrictions
In the second part of the talk, we will present a few examples of some contract research we have been involved in on the topic of suicide prevention. The first example relates to work commissioned by National Rail looking into people’s experiences with suicidality on the railways. The findings from this project fed into their ‘Small Talk Saves Lives Campaign’. The second example relates to some recent work we have recently conducted with a third sector organisation around what encourages and discourages help-seeking in public places whilst having suicidal thoughts. We will briefly discuss the methodologies for these projects as well as providing an overview of our findings to provide worked examples of how contract research can happen in practice.
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Dr Beth Cliffe
