Leeds Community Researchers: An Ongoing Journey

A report based on discussions and workshop outputs from the Leeds Community Researchers Meet-Up held on Tuesday 15th July 2025.

Workshop facilitated by and written up by Dr Dominic Galliano.

The aim of this meet-up was to: • Reflect on experiences as community researchers, with a lens of how a network can help in future. How do we do Community Research? Where have you been looking for support? What common challenges are you coming across? 

• Explore the current landscape and opportunities. Funding, where is it? How can we coordinate and be better prepared? What are the current trends? Where are we headed? 

• Plan our next steps. What does this network look like? How does it fit within the current landscape? Who else do we bring in? When do we meet again? How frequent would we want to meet? How can we fund this network going forward? What is the next bigger event?