completed work

In the first phase of work the ISSUES team held face to face discussions with the Principal Investigators (PIs) from the first 12 research consortia funded under the SUE Programme. These meetings were based around a semi-structured series of questions designed to explore knowledge transfer issues using the experience of SUE PI's and their researchers. The principal objectives of the discussions were:

• To explore at a qualitative level how each consortium viewed the knowledge transfer process and where they perceived the demands for their research outputs lay
• To summarise broad themes of the research work undertaken, determine the non-academic project partners and the wider range of potential stakeholders and end users
• To collate the experiences of the PIs in operating large-scale consortia

The information from discussions was supplemented with work the ISSUES team has done in collating and categorizing outputs from the SUE1 Consortia (click here for summary of outputs)

The ISSUES team also hosted an event at the end of September 2007 for members of the consortia to enable researchers to exchange their views and experience of good practice in research dissemination (click here for details).

 

In this way a picture of the knowledge transfer issues relating to the SUE research programme was built up from the perspective of the academic researchers.  The perspective of knowledge transfer issues from stakeholders was examined in the next phase of work.