Partnerships
CEIEC Partners and Networks
The CEIEC has a unique network of local, national and international researchers and research fellows present leading edge opportunities to reconceptualise equity and innovation in early childhood education for children and families.
The CEIEC aspires to use its research and networks to make significant contributions to policy and practice in early childhood education and training in Australia and internationally. Under the leadership of Professor Glenda MacNaughton an exciting and highly experienced team of multi-disciplinary researchers and research fellows have come together to form the CEIEC and to link with other researchers and organizations who share its mission.
CEIEC partnership policy - Partnerships and possibilities
The CEIEC is committed to social justice in early childhood and to children's rights and its partnership program is designed to support this commitment. To this end, the CEIEC seeks to link with organisations and individuals whose practices and policies are consistent with and/or in no way diminish this commitment.
Partnerships are about working together, creating alliances and building forms of collaboration. They offer a way to create new forms of relationships that maximise the resources and impact of those working for greater equity, social justice and children’s rights in children’s lives and the lives of those of work with and care for children. They also offer innovative ways to share learning and build strategies that make a difference in this work.
There are many different ways in which organizations, groups and individuals can do this. The CEIEC is committed to building partnerships that support and enhance the work CEIEC partners and of the CEIEC. Some of the options for doing this are listed below. However, we are open to exploring options and possibilities not detailed below that are of mutual benefit to the partners and that allow for co-evolution of partnership.
Information sharing partners
Some forms of information sharing partnership could include:- Sharing information about their events, programs and projects on a regular basis through their in-house publications such as newsletters and email bulletins.
- Promoting each other's events, programs and projects - for example, through newsletters, web links to each other's websites, as inserts conference and other event folders, adverts in conference or professional learning programs.
Event partners
Some forms of event partnership could include:- Organising a joint event - for example, a professional learning program, seminar, advocacy event or conference
- A specific conference event - for example, conference opening or closing ceremony.
- Cost sharing to bring an international keynote speaker to Australia for joint or separate events - for example, partners would support costs associated with travel, accommodation and speaker's fee
- Cost sharing to bring an interstate keynote speaker to specific states for joint or separate events - for example, to support costs associated with travel, accommodation and speaker's fee
- Conference equipment - to support costs associated with hire and or purchase of equipment (data projector, overhead projector) to ensure professional presentations
- Conference awards and gifts - to provide small awards and gifts to conference delegates and presenters.
Publication partners
Some forms of publication partnership could include:
- Joint in-house publishing - for example, jointly publishing issues or advocacy papers
- Joint external publishing - for example, collaborating on specific articles for publication in professional journals and magazines
- Joint submissions - for example, jointly writing submissions to government inquiries, policy initiatives, etc.
NB: All publication partnerships will require an intellectual property agreement in line with the University of Melbourne's guidelines on intellectual property and the commercialisation of intellectual property.
Project partners
Some forms of project partnership could include:- Joint submissions for funding for projects of mutual interest.
- Participation as co-researchers, participants or in others ways in each other's projects.
- Provision of in-kind project resources in projects of mutual interest. Some forms of in-kind partnerships could include provision human resources to assist with specific project tasks or physical resources such as research equipment, library facilities, computer skills, etc.
NB: All project partnerships will require an intellectual property agreement in line with the University of Melbourne's guidelines on intellectual property and the commercialisation of intellectual property.
CEIEC conference partnerships - reciprocal arrangements
(FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS ONLY) The CEIEC would like to develop partnerships and reciprocal arrangements with Not-for- profit organisations. A conference partner would agree to reciprocal arrangements between the CEIEC for the following:- Complimentary attendance at special conference events
- Complimentary conference publicity in the partner's publications
- Complimentary conference proceedings
- Complimentary exhibition space.
To further discuss partnerships with the CEIEC please contact CEIEC Director, Professor Glenda MacNaughton via email at: gmmacn@unimelb.edu.au or phone on: +61 3 8344 4610.
Current Partnerships
• National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN)
• Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training (DECET)
Practitioner Research Fellows
A number of practitioner Research Fellows have contributed to the work of the CEIEC through participating in research, data, collection, research publications and research presentations since its inception.