CUPI funded partnerships

The Community University Partnership Initiative (CUPI) awarded ‘thinking funding’ to 28 partnerships over 4 pilot match events in 2018. Take a look below to see an overview of the partnerships that have developed through the CUPI process:

Bristol

• Intergenerational Projects Evaluation: BS3 Community and UWE

• Development of external evaluation of Bristol Zero Tolerance: Bristol Women’s Voice/Bristol Zero Tolerance and UWE

• Reimagining libraries: Create Gloucestershire, Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership (HWCP), UWE and Bath Spa University
• Mobility in our hands: Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership (HWCP), BS3 Community and UWE
• ESOL for Somali Women: Somali Resource Centre and UWE
• Easton Safer Streets: Up our Street and UWE

• An evaluation of meaningful dialogue in sound and movement practices with children with complex Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND): aboutNOWish & UWE

• Co-producing research with community anchor organisations: Knowle West Media Centre and University of Bristol

• Exploring stories around life threatening illness and bereavement: BS3 Community, The Harbour and University of Bristol

Manchester

• Steps to Equality – a secondary data analysis of the 2018 Government LGBT survey: LGBT Foundation and Manchester Metropolitan University

• Evaluation of nature based interventions at Dutch Farm – a collaborative approach to assessing physical and mental health: YMCA Liverpool and University of Central Lancashire

• Littleborough Flood Resilience Partnership: Littleborough Civic Trust and Manchester Metropolitan University

• Impact of long-term exposure to media narratives on Muslim identity formation: The Flowhesion Foundation and University of Chester

• Measuring community development for young people with autism and their families: Future Directions and University of Manchester

• Developing Exemplars of Value Co-Creation in Greater Manchester: Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation and Manchester Metropolitan University

• Exploring the Potential for Fusing Approaches to Realise Community Capacity in North West England: MadLab and University of Central Lancashire

• Concept testing; REACH Homes CIC/Sheffield University Urban Studies & Planning: Reach Homes and Sheffield University

Newham, London

• Mentoring links to social mobility and civic interventions: The BIG Alliance and Royal Holloway University of London

• A comparison of  regeneration  programmes, process, and outcomes in three London boroughs – what’s the evidence and who benefits? North London Partnership Consortium, Brixton Impact Hub, University College London and Birbeck University of London

• Developing a new community university partnership which aims to evaluate the social impact of intergenerational community eating events for older people in inner London: Be Enriched and University College London

• Examining long term associations between the educational participation and social mobility of 'service users' from three different community groups in East London: Newham Community Programme, ELBA, London Stadium Learning and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

• Exploring whether a community university partnership can be initiated to promote research into Green Candles dance activities for older people: Green Candle Dance Company  and University College London

• What does social action look like to young people? Community Collective, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Pinpoint and Higham Hill, AY recruitment and Royal Holloway University of London, University East London

Birmingham

• Engaging young men from disadvantaged circumstances in Sports-Driven programmes to enhance relationship skills, including for intimate relationships: Sport Birmingham, Family Stability Network (FASTN) and Birmingham City University

• How to demonstrate the impact of youth social action: Youth Sport Trust, City Year UK and Birmingham City University

• Making mothers: Craftspace and Birmingham City University

• Evaluation of the Permission to Smile Campaign and the potential for impact on health outcomes: Uturn UK, The United Reformed Church and Birmingham City University

• Joint Framework for Evaluation Impact and Social Change Produced by Community Organisations: City Year UK, Youth Sport Trust, The United Reformed Church and Birmingham City University 

Find out more

To find out more information, please contact stephanie.todd@uwe.ac.uk or check out the main CUPI page.