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Why community connections and social bonds are vital for health, prosperity, and a thriving society. Telosa spotlights JOIN OR DIE, a new feature documentary distilling and highlighting the profound insights of the 50-year research project of Harvard scholar, Robert Putnam. From his early ideas and discoveries to the empirical evidence amassed from around the world, JOIN OR DIE explains why community is so central to the success of individuals, cities, and countries and how it could help address some of the critical issues confronting our country today! https://bit.ly/3LN5X0I ------------

Three things that made us more curious at Tees Valley Education this week 💡Things Worth Knowing: The role of assumed knowledge in youth transitions for education to employment This report from Social Market Foundation and Speakers for Schools focuses on the significant role that parental education, wealth, and knowledge of the system play in shaping the life chances of young people, particularly in their educational outcomes and career success. Payne and Gollings (2024) highlight why young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, even with similar academic performance to their more privileged peers, often fare worse in higher education and the job market. The research attributes this disparity to a lack of "assumed knowledge" about how to navigate the education and career systems. This research chimes with work we are doing with the generous support of SHINE Trust and with support from Chartered College of Teaching Evidence Based Education Stuart Kime FCCT on crafting curriculum with disadvantage in mind. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ekWEa8fU 💡 Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy  This paper from government outlines key initiatives, such as making work pay, lowering energy costs, making housing more affordable, and expanding access to childcare. It also stresses the importance of collaboration across government, businesses, and community organizations to tackle the deep-rooted causes of poverty.  🔗 https://lnkd.in/e7gemjyj 💡 Driving system change: From neighbourhood to national We recently had the pleasure of contributing to a roundtable event with our colleagues at Fair Education Alliance and from a range of partnerships. The theme was "Driving Systems Change Together," emphasising collective action to address systemic issues that sustain inequality. To catch up on a recording of our webinar and what we shared in relation to our #PLACE project with Fair Education Alliance Bloomberg and others 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ekDN_p62 Thanks also to other contributors featured in the next roundup Centre for Young Lives Voice 21 UK Impetus UK Limited Education Policy Institute Children North East Lorna Nicoll Michele Deans North East Child Poverty Commission One Cornwall SecEd Schools Week Tes Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Gina Cicerone Katrina Morley Big Education Get full access to the research and a host of other resources/insights through my #FREE substack below 🔗 https://lnkd.in/exujjynZ

Turning Research into Practice.® You could say it's a passion of ours. That's why we partner with our scholar network to translate research into evidence-based resources to help you plan, advocate, and share learning and knowledge that positively advances diverse community needs. CORE Resource Library ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q02HhXpf0

🌟 Meaningful and equitable community-engaged (CE) research transforms how we collaborate, enabling community partners to take an active role in the research process—from shaping questions to co-authoring manuscripts. Our Community Co-Authorship Recommendations for Community-Engaged Research, developed by UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, offers practical strategies to foster inclusivity, strengthen academic-community partnerships, and share ownership of research outcomes through community co-authorship. 📢 We invite academic researchers, community organizations, advocacy groups, funders, government agencies, and all stakeholders passionate about equitable CE research to explore these recommendations. Tailor them to your needs, and share them widely to encourage broader adoption or adaptation. 📄 Learn more and access the recommendations here: https://lnkd.in/gH_uWJJ3

Three things already making us curious at Tees Valley Education this week Get full access to the links (and even more research) for #FREE via my roundup @ThatPovertyGuy on SubStack 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e_EdnG_k 💡 Should we still be looking at the impact of the pandemic on learning? A longitudinal study, conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) tracks the youngest school-age children affected by the #Covid19 pandemic to assess the long-term impact of partial school closures. It examines how these closures have influenced pupils' attainment in reading and maths, their social skills, and the gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eyut8veq 💡What can we learn from our four nations about tackling child poverty? A new research briefing from Child Poverty Action Group UK is helpful for better understanding the ways in which poverty and hardship in the UK are compounded by policy. Child poverty has been rising across the UK over the past decade due to cuts to the social security system, with the two-child limit being a key factor driving further increases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/enFV6MVZ 💡 How can the government and others remove barriers to local leadership in communities and through education? Liz Robinson at Big Education is no stranger to us Tees Valley Education The work of Big Education in both understanding and implementing local community change is inspiring. This article explores two key themes: place-based collaboration and leadership in the education system. It highlights a growing focus on "place" — with government and organisations like the Confederation of School Trusts and Fair Education Alliance prioritising local, community-centred initiatives. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eA2ABRma Thank you to the other thinkers and contributors who feature in next weeks roundup. Including FFT Education FFT Education Datalab Parentkind Schools Week YoungMinds Anne Longfield CBE Centre for Young Lives Bristol City Council University of Oxford University of Sussex Mari Martiskainen Debbie Hopkins Chartered College of Teaching Dr Karen Boardman Blackpool Research School Simon Cox Becky Francis Department for Education and many more.... You can get the full update delivered direct to your inbox on Monday morning for #FREE by simply clicking the link.

How can we make co-produced research work better? Here's what we're taking away from our co-hosted session yesterday with the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre ⤵ - Consider the practical; spend time cultivating the space, the values you want to underline your work, and ring fence time for relationship building - Identifying common interests and aligning strategies helps bring together research and policy partners effectively to co-develop projects - Co-production needs to include all voices, both academics, policy organisations, those with lived experience and others - But we need to take care when including these voices, flawed engagement methods can inadvertently exclude some participants Thanks to our speakers Sarah Chaytor, Alex Balch, Vicky Kemp & Laura Durán Cardenas, for giving their perspectives from both those who fund co-produced research and those who have been recipients of funding. & special thanks to our colleagues in the Modern Slavery PEC Owain Johnstone Izzy Templer Jakub Sobik and CAPE Rafael C.. We’re currently developing a toolkit that focuses on our experiences awarding funding for co-produced projects, with advice for both funders and applicants, so watch this space.

Check out this upcoming FREE workshop to learn more about the importance of responsible community engagement in federal grant projects: Respectful and Responsible Broader Impacts: Meaningful Community Engagement in Federal Grant Projects Date: Thursday, Oct. 24, 11am-12pm CST Register: https://lnkd.in/exzBqBEM Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Shearman, NSF Program Director, Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), Division of Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (ITE), Innovation Programs Section Increasingly, federal grants (especially from NSF) are requiring university-based researchers, faculty, and principal investigators (PIs) to invite community members into grant projects to ensure strong connections between community-identified needs and the research process. Faculty are expected to find community partners, but it is not clear the quality of these connections. This workshop seeks to answer the question: How can community partners more meaningfully be engaged in federal grant proposals that require community engagement?

This is a really exciting piece of work for York. We are partnering with Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families on the 'Changemakers' programme to explore further, and understand more about, the ways in which local areas can make best use of evidence in their work with children and families. What has really appealed to me about this programme from the outset is the definition of 'evidence based' being used and this image captures it really well. Findings from research are really important parts of the puzzle but so are the different components that form the local evidence picture. I think it's much more likely that we experience successful evidence based approaches when we recognise the breadth of evidence, coupled with implementation science, when thinking about our work. https://lnkd.in/e7W95_qe