Form effective research teams

Finding the right people to make research projects successful can be time consuming and difficult. We understand what makes an absolutely ideal research team and with access to a huge network of researchers, practitioners, scientists, and artists, we can form that team quickly.

Our service in forming effective research teams is for individual researchers, teams of academics, or research organisations who need to find the ideal partners for an upcoming funding application or secured grant.

Contact us if you would like expert advice on forming an effective research team, or if you would like our help in finding the ideal partners.

Why work with us?

Reveal new insights by forming a research team with a unique combination of skills, disciplinary expertise, and experience.

Make your funding application stand out in a highly competitive research landscape by bringing together a distinctive and exceptional group of people.

Save huge amounts of time trying to find the ideal team for your research project by drawing upon our network of experts.

Massively simplify procurement. Working with us means you can bring countless partners into your research project through a single compliance and procurement process, reducing the administrative burden of achieving your research aims significantly.

In practice

The example below shows research team formation in practice.

Case Study: LivingBodiesObjects – Technology and the Spaces of Health

Research Context

The Wellcome Trust’s Research Development Award challenged academics to propose new and innovative methods for undertaking research related to health and wellbeing. Working with a team of medical humanities academics, we secured £1m in funding to establish a new research lab at the University of Leeds.

Forming effective research teams

The foundation of the research design was to bring together intentionally unlikely and provocative teams of people to conduct experimental research in the newly formed lab. Drawing upon our vast network of experts, we were able to bring together leading organisations (including museums, charities, and theatre companies) and highly skilled practitioners (including dancers, artists, and makers) very quickly.

The core research team were able to focus on critical thinking, research impact, and publications whilst we facilitated experimental and co-creative research activities and documented the results. Finding the ideal research partners, and paying for their services, were all enabled through a single procurement with us.

Research Impact

This project generated numerous exciting and impactful outputs including publications, such as a toolkit for values-informed medical humanities research, and practical outputs, such a performance that allowed a dancer to generate audio through their movements.

The experimental research activities we facilitated have changed the working practices of our partner organisations. For instance, a charity working with adults who have learning differences are now embracing immersive technologies as an educational tool.

Working Together

We collaborate with researchers, research support teams, and organisations working with research. Our partnership can begin at any point in the project. We are happy to become a formal partner, or provide an ad hoc advisory service.

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