Local Plan for Research and Pledge
The following Local Plan for Research was co-designed by voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations as part of their participation in ‘Raising Voices in Research’ from January – April 2023, with the purpose of outlining how these communities want to be engaged in research because they are experts in their own lived experience. Therefore, this plan should be used by local researchers as a guidance document to inform practice when seeking to engage with the represented communities.
The VCSE organisations involved provided invaluable insights that will reflect the experiences of many within their communities. However, it is important to recognise, they will not represent all the experiences and views of these communities. Therefore, as stated above, the following plan should be used as a starting point; all communities should be consulted with before beginning research, as each will have specific needs that could not all be captured within this project.
To produce the following plan Action Hampshire analysed all the data collected by the organisations involved, from which 7 themes were uncovered. These are considered main themes, as they were consistently discussed across many of the groups. Any nuances or important additional information has been noted later in the plan, where each organisations’ individual needs and considerations are provided in more detail.
