Royal College of Art AHRC Impact Acceleration Account 2022-2025

皇家艺术学院的研究侧重于艺术和设计实践，并致力于面向行业的跨学科研究与影响。除了在我们的四所学院(艺术与人文；建筑、通信和设计)进行研究外，我们还有四个研究中心：海伦·哈姆林设计中心(HHCD)、智能移动设计中心(IMDC)、材料科学研究中心(MSRC)和计算机科学研究中心(CSRC)。RCA研究人员定期参与跨学科研究合作，为这些合作带来视觉和创意艺术、设计和创新、技术和材料以及批判性思维和文化解读方面的专业知识。他们已经与工商界(从全球公司到当地中小企业)和文化部门(如大英图书馆、泰特、维多利亚和阿尔伯特)的广泛合作伙伴合作。IAA将利用RCA的现有优势进一步扩大学院接触的合作伙伴范围，为与政策制定者、政府和第三部门组织发展实质性合作提供支持，创造更多影响政策、社会和文化的机会。RCA IAA的总体目标将是发展学院的研究文化和环境，使研究人员开展有效、雄心勃勃、创新和响应的影响活动的能力发生阶段性变化。IAA将专注于三个主要目标：(I)在整个RCA中嵌入更强大的影响文化；(Ii)增加政策参与；以及(Iii)为研究人员提供敏捷创新。作为一家小型专业艺术和设计机构，RCA的研究与开发办公室无法为研究人员提供专门的影响支持。IAA将通过使我们能够在我们的员工中嵌入影响技能和能力来帮助解决这一问题，提供以影响为重点的培训，使所有职业阶段的研究人员能够通过在开发研究项目的早期阶段设计影响活动和规划影响证据收集的更有结构和更强大的方法来加强他们的影响途径。通过专注于在RCA中嵌入更强大的影响文化，IAA将支持研究人员与新的利益相关者、新的学科和更广泛的影响的新途径接触，特别是关注与政策制定者的有效接触。IAA还将使研究人员能够在自己的研究中部署敏捷创新和“快速失败”活动，并进行概念验证和商业化活动，目的是增加我们屡获殊荣的孵化器InnovationRCA中由研究人员领导的初创企业的数量。

The Royal College of Art's research has a focus on art and design practice and a commitment to industry-facing, interdisciplinary research with impact. In addition to research in our four Schools (Arts & Humanities; Architecture, Communication; Design), we have four research centres: the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD), the Intelligent Mobility Design Centre (IMDC), the Materials Science Research Centre (MSRC), and the Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC). RCA researchers engage in interdisciplinary research collaborations regularly, bringing expertise in the visual and creative arts, design and innovation, technology and materials, and critical thinking and cultural interpretation to these collaborations. They already collaborate with a large range of partners across business and industry (from global companies to local SMEs) and the cultural sector (e.g. British Library, Tate, Victoria & Albert).The IAA will build on the RCA's existing strengths to expand further the range of partners the College engages with, providing support to develop substantial collaborations with policy makers, government and third sector organisations, creating increased opportunities for policy, social and cultural impact. The overarching aim of the RCA IAA will be to develop the College's research culture and environment to deliver a step-change in researchers' capacity to undertake effective, ambitious, innovative and responsive impact activities. The IAA will focus on three main objectives: (i) embedding a stronger impact culture across the RCA; (ii) increasing policy engagement; and (iii) enabling agile innovation for researchers.As a small specialist art and design institution, the RCA's Research & KE Office is not able to offer dedicated impact support to researchers. The IAA will help to address that by enabling us to embed impact skills and capacity among our staff, providing impact-focussed training that equips researchers at all career stages to strengthen their routes to impact with more structured and robust approaches to designing impact activities and planning impact evidence collection in the early stages of developing a research project.By focusing on embedding a stronger impact culture across the RCA, the IAA will support researchers to engage with new stakeholders, new disciplines, and new routes to impact more broadly, with a particular focus on engaging effectively with policymakers. The IAA will also equip researchers to deploy agile innovation and 'fast failure' activities in their own research, and to undertake proof of concept and commercialisation activities, with the aim of increasing the number of researcher-led start-ups in our award-winning incubator, InnovationRCA.