AHRC Impact Accelerator Account - Nottingham

AHRC 影响力加速器账户 - 诺丁汉

• 批准号: AH/X003027/1
• 负责人: Lynda Pratt
• 金额: $ 58.27万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX003027%2F1
• 关键词: AHRC; Impact; Accelerator; Account; Nottingham

As a community of Arts and Humanities scholars, we have an impressive track-record of winning AHRC and other funder awards for impact. We have held 16 Follow-on-Fund Awards for Impact since 2012 (84% success rate from 19 submissions). Latterly this has given an average spend of £255K p/a between 2016-2020, with spend focused on delivering important KE and impact benefits from AHRC-funded research. Our core limitation in developing our KE capability as a research community has been a lack of access to KE and impact funding for academics whose research is funded from diverse sources (e.g. British Academy and other charitable research funders, plus University of Nottingham research leave) and/or whose work is with external partners and beneficiaries that are excluded from HEIF funding criteria (e.g. from the public, third sector and community groups). An AHRC IAA will radically alter who we can support in developing KE and what we can achieve. We would deploy the IAA to enable: experimentation (learning through failure as well as success); smaller-scale developmental KE projects that build researcher capacity and experience; grow communities of practice in order to develop capacity by sharing best practice and knowledge; showcase the value of AHRC remit disciplines to other disciplinary areas and to external partners, and deepen the training offer to enable a more rigorous approach to research project design - one that builds KE in to embed and track impact from the outset.In 2020 we undertook a survey of research active Arts and Humanities academics to benchmark their involvement in, and attitudes towards research impact and knowledge exchange activities. The survey has provided us with important information on the research community's knowledge of our KE support mechanisms and their reflections on KE and impact as part of their research leadership and career development trajectories. 91% of respondents want their research to make a difference to society. However, the survey also revealed the need for a culture change that empowers a wider range of academics to learn how KE and impact generation can feedback into their own research. This survey provides us with a good benchmark from which to measure and evaluate change in capability, capacity and attitudes as we move forward, and has helped us frame our aims and objectives for this AHRC IAA award.Our approach to investment will be: i) To invest in new training that enables researchers to learn about KE and ways to mobilise their research (e.g. Implementation Science, enhanced Arts Research and KE Leaders Programme). ii) Develop capacity through forging communities of practice in KE, e.g. peer review college review of applications; network development clustering individuals participating in training offers and who have shared interests in a sector or partners. iii) Make available seed-corn funding schemes that enable academics to develop new partnerships, conduct pilot collaborative KE projects and have the mobility to spend time with a partner institution (see Modes A-D below). iv) Seed new opportunities for policy impact through partnership working with Nottingham's Institute for Policy and Engagement. v) Develop a region-wide community of practice to enable challenge-led and place-based research by catalysing a regional consortium through Midlands Innovation (MI-AHRA, see below). vi) Align and lever in resources to strengthen Arts and Humanities-led KE, e.g. funding from HEIF to further underpin KE projects and alignment of existing KE and Research Development roles to extend professional support for the programme. Alignments will also be made through core existing non-academic partnerships (see Objective 2 below) to enable greater Arts and Humanities-leadership and involvement in place-based, research-led KE with interdisciplinary collaborations forged in the central Nottingham Impact Accelerator.

作为一个艺术和人文学者社区，我们在赢得AHRC和其他Impact资助者奖方面有着令人印象深刻的记录。自2012年以来，我们已经举办了16次影响后续基金奖(19次提交，成功率为84%)。最近，这使得2016-2020年间的平均支出为255K GB p/a，支出集中在从AHRC资助的研究中提供重要的KE和影响收益。作为一个研究界，我们在发展KE能力方面的核心限制是，对于那些研究资金来自不同来源(例如，英国科学院和其他慈善研究资助者，加上诺丁汉大学的研究假)和/或其工作是与被排除在HEIF资助标准之外的外部合作伙伴和受益人(例如，公共、第三部门和社区团体)的学者来说，缺乏获得KE和Impact资金的机会。AHRC IAA将从根本上改变我们在发展KE方面可以支持的人以及我们可以实现的目标。我们将部署IAA以实现：实验(从失败中学习以及从成功中学习)；建立研究人员能力和经验的较小规模的发展性KE项目；扩大实践社区，以便通过分享最佳实践和知识来发展能力；展示AHRC将学科移交给其他学科领域和外部合作伙伴的价值，并深化培训课程，以实现更严格的研究项目设计方法-内置KE以嵌入和跟踪来自外部的影响。2020年，我们对活跃的艺术和人文学科学者进行了一项调查，以衡量他们参与研究影响和知识交流活动的程度以及他们对研究影响和知识交流活动的态度。这项调查为我们提供了重要的信息，让我们了解研究界对我们的KE支持机制的了解，以及他们对KE和Impact的思考，作为他们研究领导和职业发展轨迹的一部分。91%的受访者希望他们的研究能对社会产生影响。然而，调查也揭示了文化变革的必要性，使更多的学者能够了解KE和Impact Generation如何反馈到他们自己的研究中。这项调查为我们提供了一个很好的基准，可以在我们前进的过程中衡量和评估能力、能力和态度的变化，并帮助我们制定了AHRC IAA奖的目标和目标。我们的投资方式将是：i)投资于新的培训，使研究人员能够了解知识工程以及如何动员他们的研究(例如，实施科学、增强艺术研究和知识工程领袖计划)。二)通过在知识经济领域打造实践社区来发展能力，例如，对申请进行同行审查、大学审查；网络发展将参加培训的个人聚集在一起，并对某个部门或合作伙伴有共同兴趣。3)提供种子玉米资助计划，使学术界能够发展新的伙伴关系，开展协作KE试点项目，并具有与伙伴机构共度时光的流动性(见下文模式A-D)。四)通过与诺丁汉政策与接触研究所建立伙伴关系，为政策影响创造新的机会。五)建立一个全区域的实践社区，通过促进中部地区创新(MI-AHRA，见下文)，促成以挑战为主导和以地点为基础的研究。Vi)协调和利用资源，加强以艺术和人文学科为主导的知识教育，例如，从HEIF获得资金，以进一步支持知识教育项目，并协调现有的知识教育和研究发展角色，以扩大对计划的专业支持。还将通过现有的核心非学术伙伴关系(见下文目标2)进行调整，以实现更大的艺术和人文领导能力，并通过在诺丁汉影响加速器中心建立的跨学科合作，参与以地方为基础、以研究为主导的知识教育。