Festival of Social Science 2021: A Series of Firsts
After an uncertain year, it is a real joy to be able to confirm the return of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.The official ESRC Festival runs throughout the whole of November 2021, but the Greater Manchester Hub (UoM, MMU, and Salford Uni) will be running from 1st...
SEEDs of Change: How to Develop Impact from your Research
Colleagues share their insights into how to have an impactThe second event in our SEEDs of Change Seminar Series was a round table discussion involving speakers from across the School of Environment, Education and Development, whose research has already led to impact....
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 the 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...
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