Helen Colley Professor of Lifelong Learning School of Education and Professional Development

Large international partnership SSHRC – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connections Programme - new funding stream Partnership: – Local community organisations – Across lead partner’s university (Toronto) – Internationally with other universities – Interdisciplinary – Up to $2m, up to 5 years

A long story... Importance of long-term networking AND of supporting early career researchers 2001 – BERA Conference, follow-up meeting 2002 – leads to invitation to present at seminar, other speaker from Toronto Collaboration at specialist conferences Reciprocal Visiting Fellowships/Professorships Edited book project – highly collaborative - TRUST Decision to work on a partnership bid

Putting the partnership together SSHRC Connections Programme – big & complex Winning support from UofT crucial Demonstrating GENUINE partnership US colleague/myself in visiting positions – ‘being in the same room’ Initial focus Call across UofT for interested colleagues ‘Brainstorming’ meeting – also decides... Approaches to other colleagues in US/Canada

Fitting in? “Society & Security” Overall focus of bid – not my track record! But ‘gap in knowledge’ indicates specialist role I can bring Other experts here at Huddersfield Sharing our own & other relevant publications Contributing research questions International workshop Submission of first-stage outline bid

Next steps... Visiting Prof’ship timed around result of outline bid Pulling the UK ‘cohort’ together Funding issues with SSHRC – need to negotiate with Huddersfield Small parallel bid to Gerda Henkel Foundation Capacity building for Huddersfield staff Large parallel bid to ESRC (Plan B Leverhulme, Nuffield, etc) Replicate process of forming partnership

Next intellectual steps... Moving from focus on empirical gap in knowledge and governance of project...to develop the ‘theoretical puzzle’ What will the focus of the ‘social science’ be? Less formal aspect of partnership Balance between overall programme of work and individual work packages

Eyes on the prize... If we win SSHRC bid... Full-time PhD student or post-doc here Involvement in leadership of project Funding for international workshops and summer schools Joint publications Local, regional, national and international impact

Eyes on the prize... Even if we don’t win SSHRC funding Intellectual development Support for other bids here, including international partnership Joint writing and presentations Future possibilities for joint working Broader networking possibilities for Huddersfield