Rationale for Network Development
There is a lack of women’s specific services in Lincolnshire. There are a number of academics working within or alongside the University of Lincoln on research relating to women and girls. In 2021, the Safer Lincolnshire Partnership developed a Lincolnshire Women’s Strategy and this has led to the implementation of the Concordat for women and girls in Lincolnshire. The women and girls research network will collaborate with organisations who are signatories to the concordat to support the development, implementation and evaluation of new services and initiatives underpinned by the strategy and concordat.
Local learning and knowledge will inform the extrapolation of research on a national and international basis, drawing upon national and global research to inform local practices, through the establishment of knowledge transfer pathways and networks
Vision
The interdisciplinary approaches required to examine issues impacting Women and Girls mean that the vision is for the LWGRN Network to be open to academics, practitioners, students and people who access women’s services, within the University, Lincolnshire and further afield.
Aims
- Develop the conceptual and instrumental impact and reach of research
- To be an externally facing example of internationally recognised expertise in developing understanding of, and appropriate responses to, the societal and health challenges experienced by women and girls.
- Support collaborations and building capacity to respond to external funding opportunities.
- Lead public engagement and knowledge exchange
- Maintain and grow the research and practice development network across discipline partners’ with a commitment to improving the lives and health of women and girls
- To strengthen the University’s relationships and partnerships with organisations which work to support women and girls in line with its position as a civic University
- Enhancing local learning and practice alongside the development of national and international research and practice collaboration
- Foster scholarship that will improve teaching and research led activities
- Facilitating innovations in research methodologies and pedagogical practice concerned with sensitive topics
- Attract postgraduate students and develop funded studentships with partners.