In summer 2023 we started our KTP journey with Community 360, an anchor organisation that provides infrastructure support for voluntary and community organisations in Essex. I am delighted to join this research team, as the lead academic providing support co-ordinating the academic team which includes Dr Rebecca Warren (Essex Business School), Dr Anne Steinhoff (Essex Business School) and Alex Green (School of History). We now have an amazing KTP Associate in Dr Arianna Mazzieri who is placed within C360 talking on this role.
Community 360 have been working with the University of Essex for a long time already. Hear my colleagues talking about how this previous work brought us to this point and what we hope to achieve with this knowledge transfer partnership in the coming years.
Over the next three years, the project will work on:
- Expanding and establishing a formalised framework for evaluation of C360’s Single Point of Commissioning (SPOC) innovation, in collaboration with partner stakeholders including Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
- Developing tools and techniques to enhance a programme of asset mapping to build a conclusive picture of available resources at the county and at community levels, and work with local partners to maximise the output of these resources
- Implementing C360’s medium-long term strategy, setting the organisation on a
sustainable growth trajectory, while ensuring core values and ethos remain
fundamental to how C360 operate - Engaging with C360 and its partner organisations to co-create and help mobilise a Community Archive as a shared asset
Funded by Innovate UK and Research Councils, KTPs are an established and successful initiative to drive innovation and growth through the transfer of expertise from a university to an external business. To find out more about KTPs at University of Essex see here.
Dr Danielle A Tucker 