This manual provides a framework to strategically think about and practice collaboration with others within and outside various disciplines.

Chapter 1. Why collaborate and engage with others?
Chapter 2. From small beginnings, what opportunities exist internally?
Chapter 3: How can doctoral and postdoctoral researchers engage externally?
Chapter 4. What are the benefits of collaborating and engaging?
Chapter 5. How can doctoral and postdoctoral researchers engage with the public?
Chapter 6. What can we learn from Public Engagement?
Chapter 7. What can we learn from Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)?
Chapter 8. How can networks of trust be built and why do they matter?
Chapter 9. How can you initiate collaboration and wider engagement?
Chapter 10. How can resistance be dealt with?
Chapter 11. Following up and moving on: Concluding thoughts

Dr Julie Reeves is a Researcher Developer/Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton, and a Co-Investigator with a GCRF funded project, BRECcIA, leading the Capacity development work package. She has been involved in researcher development since 2002, working with the Civic Education Project in Belarus and Ukraine, and then as the Skills Training Manager, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester.  She was a key researcher and contributor to the Vitae 'Researcher Development Statement and Framework' and is a Vitae Researcher Developer Senior Fellow.  She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, a co-convenor of the Postgraduate Issues Network within the Society for Research into Higher Education, and currently facilitates the South East Researcher Developers network.  She is a co-editor of the SAGE Success in Research series with Pam Denicolo, Dawn Duke and Alison Yeung.