Host our students
Take a placement cohort in your community, school, clinic, assembly or firm.
- Agreed a trimester in advance
- Students arrive briefed and supervised
- You help write the brief
Partners
Work with DCROP
Assemblies, schools, clinics, NGOs, funders and firms work with the directorate in four main ways. All of them start with a conversation.
Why partner with a university directorate
DCROP is not a project office with a closing date. The student placements run every year regardless of whether any particular funding cycle continues, which means work attached to them keeps going for much longer than a typical project.
Partners also get the university behind the work: supervision, research capacity, and a record of what actually changed rather than a completion report.
Four ways to partner
Collaborate on research
Work with UDS researchers on a question that matters to the people you serve.
- Joint design from the start
- Field access through the placements
- Findings you can actually use
Support community projects
Back work that is already running, in communities that already asked for it.
- Nurseries, plots, clinics, classrooms
- Delivered through the field programmes
- Outcomes recorded and reported
Fund a programme
Invest in a whole pipeline rather than a single activity.
- Multi-year by design
- Students, research and community work together
- Reporting against agreed outcomes
How it works
A conversation
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and where. No proposal needed at this stage.
A shared brief
We write down the problem together, with the community and the district assembly where relevant.
An agreement
Scope, responsibilities, timing and how success will be judged, in writing.
Delivery and reporting
The work runs through the field programmes, and you get a record of what changed.
Partner With Us
Let’s work together to create sustainable communities through teaching, research and innovation.