Sponsors and Policy Partners

The Centre for Social Research (CSR.Salford) aims to build constructive partnerships with sponsoring and commissioning agencies that focus on revealing and disseminating important messages for tackling social problems.

While maintaining our critical independence, we are always keen to work closely with sponsors to ensure minimum disruption to those being researched, that we address their particular issues of concern, to understand local sensitivities, and to produce reports that will have maximum usefulness. We are happy to work with agencies to develop our recommendations further with them.

We have recently worked with the following sponsors:

International and National Statutory/Government Agencies

• European Commission
• Youth Justice Board
• Welsh Assembly Government
• Department of Health
• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
• Big Lottery Fund

Regional and Local statutory agencies

• Greater Manchester Police
• Leeds City Council
• Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
• Blackburn with Darwen Council
• North Somerset Council
• Manchester City Council
• Salford City Council
• Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
• Barnsley metropolitan Borough Council
• Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
• Aston, Wigan and Leigh PCT
• North West Development Agency
• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

Research Councils and grant-making bodies

• British Academy
• Economic and Social Research Council
• Arts and Humanities Research Council
• EPSRC
• Leverhulme Trust
• Carnegie UK
  

Charities

• Salford Foundation
• Catch 22
• Action for Children
• Calderdale Citizens Advice Bureau
• Groundwork UK
• Barnardos
• Friends Provident Foundation
• Wessex Reinvestment Trust
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Islamic Foundation
• Skills for Care
• Coalfields Regeneration Trust
• Prince’s Trust
• British Institute for the Study of Iraq
• Nacro
  

Industry and Public Corporations

• Salix Homes
• Olympic Park Legacy Company