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This dataset summarises the collaborative presentation and analysis of seven case studies of research partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) as part of the Rethinking Research Partnerships project (funded by an ESRC seminar series award: Evidence and the Politics of Participation in Academic-INGO Partnerships for International Development). The original data included: * Case study reports collaboratively written by an academic and INGO partners (not provided in this dataset due to sensitive nature of the material and the ease this might be traced back to the 'core group' participants regardless of anonymisation of names/institutions) * Case study presentations based on reports (as above) * Collaborative analysis of case studies - written up as 4 seminar reports - and included in this dataset * Additional reports from the 'context-setting workshop', 'ways of working workshop' and 'international dissemination conference' which informed/built on the analysis of the seven case studies.This proposal arises responsively from concern expressed by both practitioners and academics to improve research partnerships between HEIs and INGOs in the field of international development. In the context of a British funding climate in which academics are under heightened pressure to justify the impact of their research by engaging research users and mediators (HEFCE et al 2011) and INGOs are seeking to satisfy donors and supporters by providing 'rigorous measures of success' for their programmes (Eyben 2013) partnerships are increasingly perceived as mutually beneficial. However, while the drive towards research collaboration has fuelled many new initiatives to broker partnerships, a recent wave of studies have suggested that the effectiveness of partnerships is often limited by constraints to participation (e.g. Aniekwe et al 2012; ELRHA 2012; Hanley and Vogel 2012). These studies have been largely...