Past event: ARTIC Lunch and Learn: Initiating Collaborations with External Stakeholders & Partners

Discover how to connect your research with the needs and interests of industry, government, and community partners

Join us for an hour of highly engaging and practical webinar where we learn how to identify aligned organisations and individuals, and gain simple, actionable strategies for starting conversations that could lead to collaboration or funding.

Please click here to register for the event to receive the Zoom link.

Facilitated by Emily Chang, Co-founder and Partner at Cruxes Innovation, this session draws on insights from supporting thousands of researchers across Australia to build purposeful partnerships that drive research engagement and impact.

Why attend?

• Learn how to spot early signals of alignment with external partners
• Build confidence in reaching out to potential collaborators
• Get tools to map out who you should talk to next—and why

Whether you’re new to external engagement or looking to sharpen your approach, this session will help you open doors and extend the reach of your research.

About the speakers:

Emily Chang is an organisational psychologist, facilitator, learning designer and executive and founder coach with extensive experience supporting researchers and research teams to translate ideas into real-world impact.

Emily is Partner and Co-founder of Cruxes Innovation, where she works with research organisations to build research-industry innovation teams and develop the skills needed to form sustained partnerships with industry, community and government. She has coached more than 50 research teams to explore pathways for their research to create impact, drawing on approaches including lean innovation, design thinking, business model design, systems thinking, team performance and change management.

Her previous roles include Head of Product for CSIRO’s ON Program, where she led the design and delivery of innovation programs including ON Accelerate, ON Prime and Launch Camp, and Resident Entrepreneur and Researcher to Impact Program Facilitator at the University of Sydney’s INCUBATE.

Emily holds a Master of Organisational Psychology and a Bachelor of Psychological Science from The University of Queensland.