Exploring the Landscape of Learning Partnerships

We’re pleased to share Understanding Learning Partnerships: Practices and Patterns in the UK, a field scan and reflective review from the team at Quotidian Strategies.

This report grew out of our own questions: How are organisations across the UK partnering to learn, adapt, and evolve? What kinds of relationships make learning possible? And what do we mean when we call something a “learning partnership”?

It maps emerging patterns, highlights challenges and opportunities, and offers a framework for thinking critically about how learning is embedded across organisations and sectors.

Drawing on 72 publicly identified partnerships, we outline how learning happens, the roles learning partners play, and where this work might be heading, including shifts beyond the “learning partnership” label into new models of relational, reflective partnership.

Inside the report:

• A typology of learning partnership models and methods

• Insight into how organisations commission, structure, and share this work

• Reflections on emerging trends and evolving terminology across the field

• Practical takeaways for those commissioning or delivering learning partnerships

We’d love to hear how your organisation is centring learning in its work.

Thank you to Dr. Susila Davis-Singaravelu and Samantha Friedlander for their contributions and to the many organisations whose work inspired this report.