COIL@UArctic Network has secured RGU Impact Accelerator Fund
COIL@UArctic Thematic Network, co-led by Robert Gordon University, Scotland, has secured the university’s internal Impact Accelerator Fund as part of the Strategic Research Initiative at RGU.
The fund aims to maximise research impact, defined as benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.
The aim of this Impact Accelerator project is to understand and evaluate the impact of the Thematic Network and its resources and activities on community, society, policy and practice. In particular, this project aims to understand and evaluate usefulness of these resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Higher Education practices, communities, knowledge holders and students’ outcomes, and intercultural engagement with Indigenous Knowledge. During this three-stage longitudinal project, the COIL@UArctic resources will be evaluated, adapted, used and re-evaluated.
The project is led by Dr Izzy Crawford, in collaboration with Dr Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, and supported by Dr Alöna Roitershtein. The main activity in this project is planned to be conducted in partnership with members of the Indigenous communities in Nuuk, Greenland, with COIL practitioners and COIL students.
More information on these activities will be shared soon.
Impact Accelerator Fund has been successfully secured for the first stage of this longitudinal project. Further funding applications will be submitted to support the subsequent stages.