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Podcast Background, while acknowledging that the institutional impact agenda now involves communicating, connecting, and collaborating with end-users, universities are increasingly ambitious to develop long–term engrained partnerships. These can extend beyond research and innovation and include education, knowledge, training and skills-related partnerships.
Today’s Episode Goal is to have a conversation with three University of Kent experts, who will share their partnership experiences about how they have successfully built communities in their space.
We will conclude with their responses to my signature questions towards the end of this Podcast.
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Chairing
University of Kent, Next Generation Impact Series 2:
Institutional Approaches to Impact, February 2022
In the introduction to the event, I mentioned that our current research interests are centred around shifting Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) structures, processes and academic culture toward rewarding research with measurable impact (in the form of outcomes as opposed to traditional bibliometric activities). The Implications of moving from the closed to open research model are considerable, and we seek to help actors in the global university research ecosystem to challenge the “impact” status quo.
As the late Donald Henry Rumsfeld declared – “We don’t know what we don’t know”. So, we need to be explicit about the gaps in current research impact practice by focusing on those things that we know [that] we don’t know!
Research Impact and Value Creation
@ University of Kent, Next Generation Impact Series 1:
Perspectives on Impact, April 2021
There was attention on what we mean by impact and key concepts, followed by panel discussion of questions including:
Who does the impact agenda really serve?
Why should researchers not involved with the REF care about impact?
What does the future hold for impact - where should we take it?
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Dr Paul Phillips' Canterbury Retail Challenge
A clip of my 2019 interview on BBC Sunday Politics ( please watch it). You can view and download from
Students studying at Kent Business School at the University of Kent will help tackle the retail challenges faced by firms in Canterbury as part of a new initiative dubbed ‘The Canterbury Retail Challenge’.
Launched by KBS’s Professor of Strategic Management, Paul Phillips, within an undergraduate module entitled Research and Consultancy Methods, and backed by the Canterbury Business Improvement District (BID), the Challenge is designed to help local firms benefit from the support, advice and expertise of students at the University.
Firms across Canterbury are being invited to KBS to talk to students about the challenges they face during a mix of workshops, panel sessions and community events.