Knowledge management/transfer
Knowledge management
The Hallam Centre for Community Justice has long had an interest in knowledge sharing across the community and criminal justice sector and has been at the forefront of the development of knowledge sharing and networking tools for the sector such as the Community Justice Portal.
The Centre is expanding this area of its work to provide research and consultancy and continuing professional development in knowledge management specifically tailored to the criminal and community justice sector.
Knowledge management as a discipline aims to ensure that organisations make full use of their knowledge assets by ensuring that knowledge within the organisation is captured, shared and disseminated, and by creating new, and learning from and using existing, organisational knowledge. This is particularly relevant in the criminal and community justice sector with its emphasis on joining up justice, partnership working and collaboration with the voluntary and community based sector and the challenges created by the rapid pace of IT implementation.
If you would like to know more about how knowledge management can help your organisation, please contact Linda Meadows.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are designed to give you access to the expertise in UK universities, colleges and research organisations that could help you in developing new services or improving your organisation through the development of new processes.
You will work in partnership with us and draw on our expertise to help your organisation. Projects can be for any length of time between one and three years with the overall objective of helping your organisation make a step change in an area you have identified as a high priority. The KTP involves the employment of an associate to work in your organisation and the services of and access to academic mentors at the University.
We believe that they offer significant benefits to everyone involved in them. They present an opportunity for you to draw on the expertise of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice to improve the delivery of your services or processes or to develop new services. They allow us to enhance our research and teaching by ensuring its relevance to the wider community. They give a newly qualified graduate an opportunity to gain work experience and give them access to personal and professional development opportunities.
If you are interested in knowing more about KTPs, please contact Linda Meadows.
