Dean Merlino is a specialist in developing research projects and collaborations with non-specialist stakeholders. He is adept at translating between project partners, in what can often be a tricky space of meaning lost or misinterpreted. Dean will facilitate powerful conversations, guiding you in finding the right collaborators and partners. He nails the most fitting research methods, interrogating research assumptions and ensuring a common language is found. He will help you to facilitate mutual ownership with your collaborators and community stakeholders, treating everyone as equal and active research partners. Dean is also skilled at leading final research project evaluations. Through an engaged and creative process, he will help your team draw out the deeper outcomes and implications from the research, providing greater impact into the future.
Dean can help your research in the following areas:
Meaningful collaboration methods and stakeholder management
Base your collaborations on subject/subject relationships
Develop trust to collaborate at all levels of the project from design to output
Find aligned stakeholders that will enhance your project
Find the right artists for your creative research projects
Developing meaningful and impactful engaged research projects
Understand what research impact really means to non-researchers
Collaborative research design methods respecting the voice of all stakeholders
Engaged and creative research practices
Develop practice-based and practice-led research methods
Work with the best possible creative research methods for your needs
Build diverse methods into the research project, from initial research design to final acquittal
Research dissemination and community follow-up
Harness proven methods for extracting the fundamental meanings of your research findings
Engage reliable methods to improve your research dissemination and communication of your impact
Conduct impact assessment to improve and influence future research developments and grant applications
To improve your engaged research practice such that it generates more compelling outcomes, send Dean an enquiry through the CONTACT PAGE to discuss possibilities.
