Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research. In this session, we will focus on creative and arts-based approaches to community-led research.
Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research. This session will focus on Young People-Led Research.
Our monthly community of practice. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research. In this session, we will explore community-researcher partnerships, universities and systems change.
“Tune in” for this Conversation Station to hear how community food researchers Vandy Butcher and Patricia Douglin are exploring diet inequalities in their community in Reading. Their work is part of FoodSEqual, a project aiming to co-produce systemic changes that benefit low-income communities.
Our next community of practice. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research. The theme for this session will be Health & Social Care.
Our next community of practice of 2026. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Our first community of practice of 2026. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Join us (online) for this Conversation Station spotlight “tuning into” community-led research. All are welcome to join this session, where a community group will share their own experience of community-led research amongst peers. For this conversation we’ll be hearing from Equal Adventure to explore how communities are developing inclusive green and blue health opportunities with disabled people in the North of Scotland.
Our last community of practice of 2025. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Join us on Tuesday 11 November 2025 for a celebration of community-led research. The Gathering will be held in Inverness between 10am and 5.30pm followed by a Sharing Cèilidh in the evening for food, informal networking, hearing from different groups and a chance to dance the day out.
Our monthly community of practice. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Join us (online) for this Conversation Station spotlight “tuning into” community-led research. All are welcome to join this sessions, where a community group will share their own experience of community-led research amongst peers. For this conversation we’ll be hearing from the Garelochhead Support Trust and partner researchers to learn how peer research is uncovering veterans' needs and shaping meaningful change in healthcare policy and delivery.
Our monthly community of practice. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Join us in this informal session, for a chance to get to know what the Community Knowledge Matters network is. This will also be a chance to find out more about the Bursaries for the in-person Gathering in Inverness.
Our first community of practice after the break. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research.
Our last community of practice before the summer break. Join us to meet with peers, hear updates about the network, take part in peer-learning conversations and share your own thoughts and interests around community-led research. In this CoP we will be imagining the futures for the university sector and the research ecosystem.
Join us in this informal session, for a chance to get to know what the Community Knowledge Matters network is through a general overview of its aims, values and activities, and meet informally with others in the network. This will also be a chance to find out more about the Bursaries for the in-person Gathering in Inverness.
Our monthly Community of Practice, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day. In this CoP we will explore the role of consent .
Our monthly Community of Practice, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day. In this CoP we will be exploring the role of lived experience in community-led research.
The Community Knowledge Matters network and the National Centre for Remote & Rural Health & Care are co-developing a training programme designed to support health practitioners to get involved in research. We will be hosting information & feedback sessions in March for health practitioners across rural Scotland to find out more about how they can get involved in research, and let us know what specific support or training needs they might have.
Our monthly Community of Practice, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day.
Join us in this informal session, for a chance to get to know what the Community Knowledge Matters network is through a general overview of its aims, values and activities, and meet informally with others in the network. All are welcome, whether you're new to the network, thinking about joining, or just haven’t connected in a while.
The Community Knowledge Matters network and the National Centre for Remote & Rural Health & Care are co-developing a training programme designed to support health practitioners to get involved in research. We will be hosting information & feedback sessions in March for health practitioners across rural Scotland to find out more about how they can get involved in research, and let us know what specific support or training needs they might have.
Our monthly Community of Practice, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day. In this CoP we will be exploring the role of setting values at the start of partnership projects and what value-led research practices might look like.
Join us (online) for this Conversation Station spotlight “tuning into” community-led research. All are welcome to join this sessions, where a community group will share their own experience of community-led research amongst peers. For this conversation we’ll be hearing how peer support workers at the Discovery College are using their lived experience and skills in peer support work and research to support mental health across the Highlands.
Our first Community of Practice of 2025, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day. In this CoP we will explore how to set intentions for your community-led research at the start of a partnership or project.
Join us in this informal session, for a chance to get to know what the Community Knowledge Matters network is through a general overview of its aims, values and activities, and meet informally with others in the network.
We are sorry to inform that our Information Session for this date has been cancelled. In the meanwhile, check this video with an overview of the network.
Join us (online) for our this Conversation Station spotlight “tuning into” community-led research. This time we will be looking at LGBTQ+inclusive and sport spaces across the Highlands and Islands with LEAP Sports Scotland.
Our last Community of Practice of 2024, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day.
Our monthly network Community of Practice session, for a chance to make connections and develop peer support and learning opportunities, hear examples of community-led research, reflect on sector wide issues individually and collectively, help shape the network and have open discussions about topics that come up on the day.
Join us (online) for our this Conversation Station spotlight “tuning into” community-led research. We will explore some of the intersections between climate action and mental wellbeing with the GRAB Trust in Oban, including a recent project trialling a reusable cup scheme with local businesses.
