The Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) was an international network of networks including research organisations, civil society organisations, social movements, international NGOs and research brokers, training providers and funders who were committed to working together to explore the politics of participation in knowledge for international development and to encourage more inclusive and responsive collaboration in order to produce more relevant research.

Founded through an ESRC-funded seminar series in 2014, a network-building and agenda-setting grant from the Open University in 2017 and a grant from UKRI for strategic research to inform fairer and more equitable research collaboration in the context of their Oversees Development Assistance (ODA) funded research, the RRC evolved from a UK-focussed network (with core partners including The Open University, Christian Aid, INTRAC, Bond and UKCDR) to an international movement (with partners including the UNESCO Chair programme in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, Global Development Network, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices, MS TCDC and the pan-African social movement Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity.)

In 2019 the RRC was awarded first prize for ‘Best External Research Collaboration’ at the Open University’s 50th Birthday Research Awards. We produced a series of influential Principles for Fair and Equitable Research Collaborations, publications on ‘Evidence and the Politics of Participation‘, ‘Rethinking Research Impact‘ and ‘Moving Beyond Partnership with Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory‘ a series of high-impact learning resources and reports for funders such as UKRI and network organisations such as Bond.

Building on our collective commitment to decolonising international development as well as our research which increasingly called into question the value of ‘research partnerships’ over and above more sustained investment in research systems in the global South, in 2021 we took the decision to disband the RRC as an expert network and instead to support the ongoing work of our southern-based partners. Please refer to the work of the UNESCO Chair programme in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, Global Development Network, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices, MS TCDC, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity and Southern Voice for ongoing commentary on research collaboration for international development.

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Participants

Our emerging network includes participants from over 20 UK-based universities and INGOs as well as a number of broker and training organisations, policy-makers and funders. If you are interested in joining this network, please contact Jude Fransman (jude.fransman@open.ac.uk)

List of Participants

David Archer (ActionAid International)

Carlos Barahona (University of Reading)

Nathanael Bevan (DFID)

Kate Bingley (Christian Aid)

Isolde Birdthistle (London School of Health and Tropical Medicine)

Kimberly Bowman (Oxfam)

Alison Buckler (Open University)

Danny Burns (Institute of Development Studies)

Chris Brown (UCL Institute of Education)

Ann Canavan (International Medical Corps, US)

Christian Carlbaum (SIPU, Sweden)

Kate Carroll (ActionAid International)

Andrew Clenaghan (Practical Action)

Chik Collins (University of the West of Scotland)

Hannah Cook (University of Edinburgh)

Flora Cornish (London School of Economics)

Angela Crack (University of Portsmouth)

Jamie Cross (University of Edinburgh)

Catriona Dejean (Tearfund)

Nimesh Dhungana (London School of Economics)

Rachel Eager (Save the Children)

Rosalind Eyben (Institute of Development Studies)

Rebecca Firestone (Population Services International)

Ed Francis (Restless Development)

Jude Fransman (Open University)

Alex Frediani (UCL)

John Gaventa (Institute of Development Studies)

Kate Gooding (University of Leeds)

Duncan Green (Oxfam)

Jessica Greenhalf (BOND/Restless Development)

Rachel Hayman (International NGO Training and Research Centre)

Jade Vu Henry (UCL Institute of Education)

Jo Heslop (UCL Institute of Education)

Frances Hill (Development Studies Association/ELRHA)

Jon Hopkins (International Planned Parenthood Federation)

Charles Knox-Vydmanov (Help Age International)

David Lewis (London School of Economics)

Shelly Makleff (International Planned Parenthood Federation, Netherlands)

Paul Manners (National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement)

Sam Mardell (London International Development Centre)

Susannah Mayhew (London School of Health and Tropical Medicine)

Alison McKinley (International Planned Parenthood Federation)

Sarah Mistry (BOND)

Diana Mitlin (University of Manchester)

Giles Mohan (Open University)

Cristian Montenegro (London School of Economics)

Lucy Morris (EveryChild)

Helen Murray (Open Society Institute)

Kate Newman (Christian Aid)

Kirsty Newman (DFID)

Amy North (UCL Institute of Education)

Olivia Nuccio (Marie Stopes International)

Andy Pask (Cord)

Jethro Pettit (Institute of Development Studies)

Amelia Reese-Masterson (International Medical Corps)

Jill Russell (International HIV/AIDS Alliance)

Purna Shrestha (Voluntary Service Oversees)

Anuprita Shukla (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Cathy Shutt (Institute of Development Studies)

David Skinner (Save the Children)

Erla Thrandardottir (City University, London)

Katie Turner (Voluntary Service Oversees)

Elaine Unterhalter (UCL Institute of Education)

Julian Walker (UCL)

Martin Walsh (Oxfam)

Niall Winters (Oxford University)

Helen Yanacopulos (Open University)

 

 

 

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