Mapping our community partnerships at Edge Hill University's Research Institute, ISR is a great way to showcase community links and build on existing networks within the Community.

ISR (Institute for Social Responsibility) is Edge Hill University’s cross-disciplinary research and knowledge exchange initiative established in 2013. The Institute is committed to exploring the opportunities for cross sector collaboration and co-operation and to draw on the experience of practitioners as well as academic researchers to inform new ways of working and learning.

Check out more about ISR at edgehill.ac.uk/isr

ISR is the cross University Institute for Social Responsibility at Edge Hill University – where we are committed to working with practitioners, policy and decision makers, professionals working in a multiplicity of settings, the not for profit sector, community activists and residents. We have three key objectives:

•To provide a space for those working across the public policy field for critical and informed reflection and thinking;

•To offer a Research and Practice Informed seminar series open to all which examines public policy challenges, practice developments and professional learning;

•To inform the professional development of intending practitioners working and studying at the University.

A key part of our approach is to encourage joint working and collaborative practice. We are both committed to and interested in the ways in which the boundaries between particular disciplines or professional identities have become more porous and sometimes more resistant to change.