Community and Organisational Research
Claire Adler can:
Work with organisations to research and understand current and potential audiences.
Undertake research to help organisations understand how they can embed themselves into the wider community.
Consult current and potential audiences and participants to understand what they want from your organisation and what has worked in the past.
Research and analyse how organisations can be delivered for the future.
Recent Work:
The Public Engagement Team at the University of Cambridge commissioned me to undertake research to understand what the University is doing well and where they can improve in terms of engaging with the immediate community of people who live and/or work in Cambridge, through a process of interviews with University staff, comparator studies of how other Universities engage with their local communities and interviews with community leaders to understand how they might want to work with the University in the future. The purpose of the study was to inform how the Public Engagement Team will develop and deliver their strategy for the future whilst hopefully resolving some of the issues around ‘town and gown’.
Community Engagement Consultancy for University of Cambridge
National Centre for Writing
As a continuation of this project I was subsequently asked to undertake further research into the potential target audiences to establish the barriers for engagement and what they would like to do with the National Centre for Writing in the future.
Audley End, English Heritage
Audley End commissioned me to undertake research into their potential community audiences and ways to work with them as part of their master plan.
Roald Dahl Museum
Working with Emma Winch to develop teachers resources for the Roald Dahl Museum I have established and consulted a diverse teachers forum to ensure the solutions being developed are appropriate for a cross section of schools across the country.
The Joy in the Jobcentre guidelines were developed through at assessment of the Joy at the Jobcentre project run by Ipswich Museum and the Department for Work and Pensions. The guidelines were developed through a process of interviewing Ipswich Museum and Department for Work and Pension staff, the cultural organisations involved in delivering the project and the families who engaged in the project. The purpose of these guidelines is to give other organisations the tools they need to deliver similar projects easily.
Ipswich Museum
Undertaking an assessment of all the different uses of London Transport Museum's public access collections store in Acton and developing ideas for how the conflicts of the different uses can be resolved for the future. The research was undertaken through a mixture of a visit to the site, reading associated documents and interviewing staff and volunteers who use the site.
