Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4060-9983

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Other

Disciplines

Teaching and Learning, Social issues, Interdisciplinary

Publication Details

Poster was presented at the All-Island Research Culture Network's 2025 Conference, in Belfast.

https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/our-research/strategy/ResearchCulture/All-IslandResearchCultureNetworks2025Conference.html

doi:10.21427/zhaz-cz71

Abstract

Engagement drives a strong research culture, fostering collaboration, impact, and sustainability. It enables integration by connecting early-career and senior researchers; enhances research outcomes; and creates more opportunities for funding. This creates a more inclusive, diverse, and dynamic research ecosystem. Engaged research is co-created with stakeholders, e.g. communities, industries, and policymakers, to provide tangible outcomes and impact.

TU Dublin has established an Engaged Research Network (ERN) to enable knowledge co-creation. The aim is to build its capacity for Engaged Research, with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It focuses on connecting and supporting staff and PhD students and developing and sharing resources and experience. Full network meetings are scheduled twice a year, where the members identify priority initiatives to run. Working groups are established and supported to deliver outcomes from these initiatives during the year.

There are currently >130 ERN members, with 3 main working groups, which have delivered positive outcomes:
o Mentoring programme development (pilot programme underway)
o Hackathon/themed networking events development (events on 2 themes have been supported, including a Greenhouse for Engaged Research in Education (GERE) with the Learning, Teaching and Assessment team, and a collaboration with TU Dublin Radiation and Environmental Science Centre on research roundtables with researchers and community partners, on air, soil and water health)
o Network podcast series development (Pilot podcast available on Spotify)

This ground-up approach to peer learning is effectively building supports for researchers to enhance their confidence and skills in engaged research, through the ERN.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/zhaz-cz71

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