Each Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) will generate a case study on their project, offering insight into the partnerships, processes, and policies that shape and are shaped by the local communities they are working with. They will also work with a podcast producer to create a podcast capturing the voices of the people involved in their collaborative R&D. Learning from the pilot will inform a series of policy papers on culture, communities and levelling up by the programme in 2025.

Each of the five Higher Education Institutions have been awarded £58k by the AHRC to host the CIP Pilot. The funding was secured by the AHRC Creative Communities Programme based at Northumbria University Newcastle, acquiring an additional £470,000 of investment, on top of a £1.3m award, to develop new knowledge about community and cross-sector partnership working in research & development.