AHRC Impact Accelerator Account - Nottingham

作为一个艺术和人文学者的社区，我们在赢得AHRC和其他资助者的影响力奖项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次基金后续影响力奖（19次申请的成功率为84%）。最近，这使得2016-2020年间的平均支出为25.5万英镑/年，支出重点是从ahrc资助的研究中提供重要的KE和影响效益。作为一个研究团体，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源不同的学者（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休假）和/或与外部合作伙伴和受益人一起工作的学者，缺乏获得KE和影响资金的途径，这些合作伙伴和受益人被排除在HEIF资助标准之外（例如，来自公共部门，第三部门和社区团体）。AHRC IAA将从根本上改变我们在开发KE方面可以支持的人员以及我们可以实现的目标。我们将部署IAA以实现：实验（从失败和成功中学习）；建立研究人员能力和经验的小规模发展性KE项目；发展实践社区，通过分享最佳实践和知识来发展能力；向其他学科领域和外部合作伙伴展示AHRC的价值，并深化培训提供，使研究项目设计能够采用更严格的方法——一种从一开始就将KE纳入并跟踪影响的方法。2020年，我们对研究活跃的艺术和人文学者进行了一项调查，以衡量他们对研究影响和知识交流活动的参与程度和态度。这项调查为我们提供了重要的信息，了解研究界对我们的经济效益支持机制的了解，以及他们对经济效益和影响的反思，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对社会产生影响。然而，该调查还显示，需要进行文化变革，使更广泛的学者能够学习如何将KE和影响力生成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，用来衡量和评估我们在能力、能力和态度方面的变化，并帮助我们制定了AHRC IAA奖的目标和目标。我们的投资方法将是：i)投资于新的培训，使研究人员能够了解KE和如何调动他们的研究（例如实施科学，加强艺术研究和KE领袖计划）。ii)通过建立KE实践社区来发展能力，例如同行评审，学院评审申请；网络发展集群指的是参与培训的个人，他们在一个部门或合作伙伴中有共同的兴趣。iii)提供种子玉米资助计划，使学者能够发展新的伙伴关系，开展试点合作教育项目，并有机会与伙伴机构共度时光（见下文模式a - d）。iv)通过与诺丁汉政策与参与研究所的合作，为政策影响创造新的机会。v)通过Midlands Innovation （MI-AHRA，见下文）催化一个区域联盟，发展一个全区域的实践社区，以实现以挑战为主导和基于地方的研究。（vi）整合和善用资源，加强以文科和人文学科为主导的文化教育，例如由高等教育基金拨款，进一步支持文化教育项目，以及整合现有的文化教育和研究发展角色，为该计划提供专业支援。还将通过现有的核心非学术合作伙伴关系（见下文目标2）进行协调，以便通过在诺丁汉中心影响力加速器中建立的跨学科合作，使艺术和人文学科在基于地点的、以研究为主导的文化教育中发挥更大的领导作用和参与。

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.