Knowledge Exchange In The Arts & Humanities [Anne Sofie Laegran]
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- 1. Knowledge Exchange in Humanities and Social Science - experiences from University of Edinburgh Anne Sofie Laegran Knowledge Exchange Manager College of Humanities and Social Science – UoE a.s.laegran@ed.ac.uk www.hss.ed.ac.uk/ke
- 2. College of Humanities and Social Science 15000 students, 5000 postgraduates, 2000 staff Research intensive, Excellent, Innovative, Interdisciplinary Ancient? Traditional? Ivory Tower? influencing the world since 1583
- 3. Influencing the world - from
- 4. • Multi-way exchange • Knowledge, ideas, information, evidence and expertise • Academic knowledge just one form of knowledge to be exchanged Knowledge Exchange …to
- 5. Business Engagement and Commercialisation Public and Cultural Engagement Policy and Practice Engagement
- 6. LAW: short courses to new markets • Trained lawyers for over 300 years… • Now expanding the market through e-learning courses Medical Ethics Data Protection Employment Law Copyright for creative industries • Since 2006 more than 600 students from varied professions in public and private sector • More than £50 000 extra income annually
- 7. Counselling Studies: Evaluation with impact • Counselling studies won contract to evaluate Lanarkshire Youth Counselling service • Combined academic and clinical expertise • Not just numbers – rich data • Publications and case study in teaching • Service increased from 1 to 8 employees serving the youth in the community
- 8. Linguistics: Bilingualism Matters • Consultancy and Public Engagement on the cognitive benefits of growing up with two languages • Free advice to families and communities • Informing public policy and practice (Bòrd na Gàidhlig) • Paid consultancy for companies • Potential spin-out - social enterprise • Engaging a team of students and early career researchers & informing research
- 9. History: Visualising Urban Geography • AHRC KT Fellowship with History & National Libraries of Scotland • Creating tool for community and educational use • Data with address from register-> run through postcoding software-> import into map-tool • F.ex. Compare cholera outbreaks in Edinburgh in 1843 vs 1867 to show spatial differences – i.e. where slums have been cleared
- 10. Creative industries: Moving Targets • Abertay, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, BBC and several SMEs in gaming and new media industry • How companies and audiences co-create, prototype and consume new media • 3 KE associates, business vouchers, secondments, virtual community engagement, production and testing of new products • 3 year SFC “Spirit” grant to work with Scottish SMEs
- 11. Collaborative doctoral awards (CASE) • Use of Digital media for outreach in Royal Commission for the Historic and Ancient Monuments of Scotland • Concrete Poetry with Scottish Poetry Library • Citizenship in states with part federal structures with the Federal Trust for Education • Transferable skills, wider career development research and KE in one Easter Wings 1633, George Herbert
- 12. Why bother with KE? Exciting and fun - an opportunity to work with your mates! Contributes to teaching and research Making a difference Impact in research grants and REF Increasingly rewarded also formally “New” meaning of what it means to be academic “Civic university” – of and for society
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- Isn’t much evidence about how research has impact, but the evidence that does exist highlights the importance of KE – which is about dialogue, developing relationships, understanding the needs and interests of those in other sectors
- What types of activities are we talking about:Three overlapping: Business engagement and commercialisation – aiming to help increase productivity through development of products and services– Licensing and spin-outs normally comes here forms an important, but not major part of what we do More activity within policy and practice engagement – aiming to inform and improve policy makers and practitioners mainly in the public and voluntary sectors. This is also a good income stream as most of consultancy as well as CPD is in this area, and intersect with non-paid advice. Public and cultural engagement – engaging with the general public as opposed to identified stakeholders. Media, lectures, festivals, concerts etc. We include this in our knowledge exchange activities both as contributing to the public and intellectual debate creates impact in itself, and because this raises the profile of our people which often may lead to other types of KE activity.
- Over to another example – sits between commercialisation and practice engagement. School of Law have trained lawyers for 300 years, and do a lot of CPD for lawyers too. The last couple of years they have expanded this through e-learning courses provided to a wide range of professionals, particularly in the Health sector. hrough the Centre for Intelectual Property and Technology Law – Script. Medical Ethics, the most successful one, attracted close to 500 students alone. Employment Law and Copyright for creative industries new courses coming up now. Last year more than £50 000 was generated through this activity, which is basically a small business building on existing teaching and research activities.
- Last example from Social Work. A project involving an interdisciplinary team of academics and representatives from the 6 local authorities in South-East of Scotland. Looking at how to improve the ways of working with the groups who have to but don’t want to relate to social work services. People in the child protection system, offenders etc. Difficult groups – but obviously important for all of us that they are reached Local Authorities identified that they don’t know enough about the research base and best practice in this area – so the aim is to Scope the existing knowledge Work on targeted projects in each of the municipalities– will mean academics go out into the practice field and the social workers coming into the University to use the library, participate in seminars to inform their projects. And then there is a knowledge sharing element across the project with events bringing it all together. So putting research into practice – and feed back into research from the practice field May see CPD or consultancy activity as a result too The kind of projects that the Economic and Social Research Council as well as the Scottish Funding Council encourages, so we hope to get more of those.