Practice
Relevant professional or facilitation expertise.
Get involved / Collaborate
Bring complementary expertise to work with shared purpose.
Practitioners, researchers and aligned initiatives can explore joint work where each party’s contribution, standards and decision responsibilities are understood from the beginning.
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Complementary expertise
Shared work should add capability—not duplicate it.
A collaboration is strongest when each party can name what they contribute, what sits outside their remit and why joint work benefits the people at the centre.
Reach
Context, relationships or access held responsibly.
Evidence
Research, learning or evaluation capability.
Standards
Compatible ethics, safeguarding and attribution.
Research and ethics
People are not raw material for a collaboration.
Research or evidence activity should define consent, information handling, participation, dissemination and the limits of any public claim.
Shared activity proceeds only where purpose, responsibility and likely benefit are clear enough to justify the work.
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Working agreement
Credit, decisions and disagreement need a structure.
Contribution
Name the expertise, time, materials and authority each party brings.
Decision rights
Agree who decides on scope, safeguarding, communications and change.
Attribution
Set accurate credit, review and publication expectations before public use.
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Engagement pathway
Know the sequence before committing.
- 01
Introduce the opportunity
Describe the gap, audience, intended benefit and why joint work may help.
- 02
Compare contributions
Clarify complementary expertise, capacity, constraints and standards.
- 03
Define a limited scope
Agree a practical first piece of work before considering expansion.
- 04
Document the arrangement
Set responsibilities, decision rights, safeguarding and communications.
- 05
Reflect together
Review evidence and fit before continuing, adapting or closing.
Joint reflection
Continuation should be a decision—not momentum.
A review considers whether the collaboration remains useful, ethical and adequately resourced.
Where fit has changed, the work can conclude with responsibilities, information and public communications handled appropriately.
Prepare an enquiry
Start with enough context to assess the right next step.
- Your discipline, initiative or institution
- The gap and intended public benefit
- What each party may contribute
Do not include confidential client, health or safeguarding information in an initial enquiry.