Project partners
The Rural Durham Community Research Network is the result of multiple collaborations and partnerships.
The Delivery Team
The Rural Design Centre
Rural Design Centre bring a design thinking, human centred approach, and have been working with Durham Community Action on this project since the first funding bid.
Now Liz Gray and Dr Katie Aitken-McDermott support delivery and manage the project, feeding back to the Young Foundation.
Durham University
The Centre for Social Justice and Community Action is a research centre at Durham University.
Professor Sarah Banks and Dr Stephen Crossley advise the Delivery Team and lead on research ethics, and training and mentoring community researchers.
The Advisory Group
The Advisory Group supports the Delivery team and advocates for the Network, its members include:
The Funders
UKRI and The Young Foundation are working together to support nine community research networks across the country.
Community Research Networks puts funding in the hands of communities, a radical new approach investing research funding in communities so they can lead, direct and contribute to the research that matters to them.