The First Six Months of Community Knowledge Matters
In a new blog our network coordinator Lauren writes about the development and start of CKM. She reflects on the role that community engagement, participatory ethics and co-priority setting have played in the first six months of the network and what learning she will take into the next.
Join our Co-Priority Working Group
We are looking for community members (either as individuals or representing community organisations) based in the Highlands and Islands who are interested in co-designing and co-analysing a priority setting survey as part of a new working group.
Application deadline: 28 November 2023, 5pm
Come along to an informal information session about the working group and the role on Thursday 23 November 12 - 1pm.
Latest Blog and News
The Ideas Fund who are funding this network have published their first Insight Report, exploring the learning gained from supporting community-led collaboration with researchers across the country.
How can community-led research enable more meaningful local decision-making?
This is one of the key question’s we have been asking as a network overall, and with that in mind, we have fed into the recent Democracy Matters consultation. This had developed from a recent Community of Practice, along with a dedicated conversation in February 2024 and wider discussions with this network and the Highlands and Islands Climate Change Community Network. Read the submission here and we’d love to hear your thoughts on the network!
