Event Details

The Impact Agenda is crucial for engagement with policy. Impact will be considered in a wider context including REF, innovation and research proposals. This seminar therefore covers three areas of interest:

• As we go into the next REF cycle and new Impact Case Studies are being seeded, this seminar will discuss the emergence of Place in that process;
• Impact and Engaging with Parliament and policy, with examples;
• Innovation and Place, concentrating on the implications for local and national recovery;
• Lessons learned from REF2021 on the impact of Place in ICS.

Seminar programme: Panel chair  Dr Camelia Dijkstra, Head of Research Services University of Wolverhampton

• Welcome and attendee introduction.  Dr Camelia Dijkstra, Head of Research Services University of Wolverhampton
• Place, Impact and Engagement. Dr Chris Wyatt, Research Impact and Policy Manager, University of Wolverhampton
• Funder view: Embed Impact and Place into your application. Jo Marriott, Senior Impact Manager EPSRC
• Achieve Regional Impact:

1. The Energy Research Accelerator – an example of a Place-based research collaboration. Dr Helen Turner, Director, Midlands Innovation
2. Engendering regional impact. Dr Rebecca Riley, Head of Research West Midlands Combined Authority and Administrative Director CityRedi

• The role of Place in REF 2021:

1. Planning, Place and the Journey to National Industry and Policy Impact. Dr Ruth Pugh, Research development Impact Manager, University of Reading
2. Case study: International and national partnerships for place based impact. Prof Jon Fairburn, Professor of Sustainable Development, Staffordshire University
3. REF 2021 Lessons learned. Dr Jackie Reynolds, Research Impact Manager, Staffordshire University and Chair, Midlands Impact Group

• Sharing best practice  Questions and Panel discussion.

 Why attend:

This Seminar will help managers understand how the Impact agenda is moving and developing and what it means for them and for their institution. This seminar will discuss aspects such as instrumental, conceptual, and capacity building impacts and their relationship with the Place agenda.