ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the way that organisations learn from each other and learn together in the context of education and research partnerships towards achieving development objectives. It also relates the insights on inter-organisational and network learning to the case study of the International Doctoral School in Global Health at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). The chapter describes the International Doctorate in Global Health programme (Indigo), which is deliberately interdisciplinary and focused on strengthening health systems through the social/behavioural health sciences. Humanitarian work psychology involves (in part) the application of knowledge from industrial-organisational psychology to improve the functioning of pro-social organisations. The chapter provides key illustrations, and recommendations for those who are interested in setting up their own learning networks. It presents the case of a consortium of universities collaborating to address the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by strengthening health systems and training health workers in sub-Saharan Africa.
