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Collaboration

Four ways to work with the institute

From an individual affiliation to a signed memorandum of understanding — every partnership we have started with one conversation about a specific piece of work.

Affiliate membership for individual scholars.

Join as Researcher

Affiliation gives you a named profile with the institute, priority access to seminars and workshops, editorial support on one manuscript per year, and the right to list IRIP as a secondary affiliation on submissions.

What it includes

  • Named researcher profile
  • Priority seminar registration
  • Annual manuscript review
  • Secondary affiliation rights
For universities, departments and think tanks.

Institutional Membership

A memorandum of understanding covering joint supervision, shared access to training programmes, reciprocal event hosting and co-branded publication of proceedings.

What it includes

  • Memorandum of understanding
  • Joint supervision arrangements
  • Discounted programme places
  • Co-hosted conferences
Cross-border research projects and exchange.

International Collaboration

We co-design multi-country studies, host visiting scholars, and act as the Pakistani partner on grant applications that require in-country research capacity.

What it includes

  • Multi-country study design
  • Visiting scholar hosting
  • Grant partnership
  • Data collection in Pakistan
Commissioned research and advisory work.

Academic Consultation

Government departments, commissions and civil society organisations commission evidence reviews, evaluation designs and policy briefs from our research staff.

What it includes

  • Evidence and literature reviews
  • Evaluation design
  • Policy briefs
  • Expert advisory panels
The network

A network built across four continents

Partnerships are reviewed against what they have actually produced — joint publications, exchanged researchers, co-hosted events. Those that produce nothing are allowed to lapse.

09 Partner institutions
34 Countries reached
06 Joint publications
04 Co-hosted events
Researchers taking notes around a table during a working meeting
Getting started

How a partnership actually begins

Rarely with a memorandum. Almost always with one seminar that goes well.

01

A note

You write with a paragraph on your institution and what you would like to build. No forms.

02

A conversation

A call to work out whether there is a specific piece of work worth doing together.

03

One event

A co-hosted seminar or panel. Cheap, quick, and a fair test of whether the fit is real.

04

An agreement

If the first three worked, a memorandum covering supervision, access and publication.

Partnership

Tell us what you want to build

A paragraph is enough to start. We reply within 24–48 hours.