QCAP is well positioned to be at forefront of international research and innovation work to allow best practice within QUB to be shared and opportunities for joint working and funding to be optimised.

Our International Advisory Board is well embedded and is working with the team to maximise opportunities for funding and joint projects, raising the profile of QCAP further. QCAP has forged links with international academic institutions, for example, University of Chicago Chapin Hall, with whom we have conducted a joint research symposium and joint publications (Special Issue of the Journal of Child and Family Welfare), and Belmont University through which academic knowledge exchange and joint bid opportunities are progressed (e.g. data collaborative).

Phase 2 of QCAP will consolidate these existing key strategic international relationships and place greater emphasis on joint funding and structured knowledge exchange programmes.  It will also develop a QCAP fellowship scheme to attract funding from outside and consolidate international strategic partnerships, networks and thought leadership to increase focused knowledge exchange partnerships between institutions.

Dr Anne Farrell, Director or Research at Chapin Hall, University of Chicago, and International Advisory Board member, remarked:

Thrilled to have an international partnership, in particular one that is congruent with some of our most important research project, particularly those that promote the leadership and coaching of young people with lived experience.

 

To read our full Phase 1 Progress Report, please click on the image link below: