Harnessing research for a 21st Century Co-operative Movement: Introducing the Co-operative Early Researchers Network

Webster, Tony and Kuznetsova, Olga ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4989-0708 (2018) Harnessing research for a 21st Century Co-operative Movement: Introducing the Co-operative Early Researchers Network. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 51 (2). pp. 37-42. ISSN 0961-5784

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Abstract

Earlier this year, Olga Kuznetsova of Manchester Metropolitan University and I were asked by the Co-operative College in the UK to help organise a new network, which would bring together new researchers from all over the world interested in co-operatives and the solidarity economy. The aims are to share ideas, help the researchers develop themselves and to work closely with the co-operative movement to assist it in building its strength for the future. Co-operative Early Researchers Network (CERN) was born in January 2018 to offer a home for a new generation of co-operative scholars and in a recognition that links between the co-operative and academic worlds have not always been as strong and productive as both really need them to be.