Collaboration with Academic and Non-Academic Partners – Prof Paul Hickman

As part of Sheffield Hallam University’s participation in the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership, and in conjunction with the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies, we are delighted to announce a new series of training seminars aiming to provide students with the skills required to move beyond successful PhD completion to building a career in the social sciences through post-doctoral positions, securing research funding and managing larger scale research projects.

These sessions will be open to all doctoral students and staff in the Social Sciences at SHU (ie sociology, politics, psychology, urban studies, education, social policy, health policy, criminology, human geography, business and organisations).

In the third event of the series on 11 December – Prof Paul Hickman (Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics) will deliver a seminar on Collaboration with Academic and Non-Academic Partners in Stoddart 7139, 2-4pm:

During his time at Sheffield Hallam University, Paul has been involved in a number of collaborations with academic and non-academic partners, including:

• The University of Oxford and Ipsos MORI (the evaluation of the Direct Payment Demonstration Projects for the Department for Work and Pensions)
• University of Sheffield and Qa Research (evaluation of a Family Intervention Project – Cooperative Working – for Stoke-on-Trent City Council)
• Queen’s University, the University of Sheffield and Perceptive Insight (a study of resilience for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister)
• 13 partners across the UK led by the University of Glasgow (UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)  which is being funded by the ESRC and Joseph Rowntree Foundation http://housingevidence.ac.uk/)

This session draws on Paul’s experience of being involved in these studies to illuminate: the benefits of collaboration; the challenges associated with it; and key learning.