Delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals
We were delighted at April’s announcement that The University of Manchester has been ranked number one in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021 for action taken towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A new campaign recognises and...
Registration Now Open for Second SEEDs of Change Event
Happy New Year!Following last year's seminar on research impact during the pandemic, we're excited to announce he second event in the SEEDs of Change series: SEEDs of Change: How to Develop Impact from your ResearchJoin us on 27th January at 12pm for a round table...
SEEDs of Change in a Pandemic
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent lunchtime workshop.It was great to see so many people there, and we hope you found it interesting and informative. At the event, we heard from four colleagues in SEED about new research projects that are responding to the...
Registrations Open for Research Impact Workshop
Join Terry Hanley (SEED Associate Director of Research - Impact) and Carly Chadwick (SEED Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer) to find out more about work that’s happening in response to the pandemic, and to share good practice for embedding impact into research....
Reflecting on the 2019 ESRC Manchester Festival of Social Science
As we look ahead to a virtual ESRC Festival of Social Science in November 2020, we asked for some reflections from those who took part last year. The annual ESRC Festival of Social Science is a national celebration of the social sciences. It enables researchers to...
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund
The ESRC has awarded The University of Manchester over £1m to deliver the Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) until 31 March 2023. The IAA is being used to fund knowledge exchange activities to accelerate the impact of research in the social sciences across the...
Covid-19 Update
We hope everyone is safe and well. We understand there is a lot of uncertainty at the moment. The Knowledge Exchange and Impact team are working remotely. We're still available to help with funding applications and REF Impact Case Studies, but it may take us longer to...
Being Human Festival: Call for Applications
Being Human is a national free festival geared towards public engagement with humanities research. The call for applications for 2020 is now live!The Being Human festival is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. This year the festival will return from...
ESRC Announces the 2020 Celebrating Impact Prize
The ESRC have launched the 2020 ‘Celebrating Impact Prize’. This competition is open to all researchers whose impact is directly linked to research supported by the ESRC and associates, including current and previous directly ESRC-funded researchers, ESRC centres and...
Changes to UKRI Pathways to Impact
Last week it was announced that from 1st March 2020, Pathways to Impact and Impact Summaries will no longer be required in applications to the Research Councils. We wanted to provide some advice to academic colleagues who may be working on proposals, whilst we wait...
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