Listen to case studies from across the School about how knowledge exchange (KE) activities and Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) supported projects can be further developed and lead to new opportunities with respect to greater engagement, further funding, or opportunities to enhance reputation of individuals and of LSE.

Confirmed Speakers

• Professor Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a Visiting Professor in the LSE’s Government Department, and Chair of the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Strategy Group where has overseen the allocation of both HEIF4 (£1.4 million) and HEIF5 (£5.2 million) KE funding.
   
• Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Director of the LSE Public Policy Group and Professor in the Government Department, he is also a founding member of the Academy of the Social Sciences. Professor Dunleavy also conducting a substantial HEFCE funded research project on research impact in the Social Sciences.
   
• Dr Nancy Holman, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment, deals primarily with issues of governance and local planning including sustainable development and community participation. She runs LSE London’s programme on housing supply in London.
   
• Professor Henry Overman, Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and Professor in Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment. The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth (WWG) was set up in October 2013 as part of the What Works Network to analyse which policies are most effective in supporting and increasing local economic growth. The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth is a partnership between the London School of Economics, Centre for Cities and Arup.
   
• Dr Don Slater, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of the Configuring Light programme. Configuring Light/Staging the Social is an LSE and ESRC-funded research programme of social science interventions into the configuration of light: Being both critical material and infrastructure for social life, light is registered across a range of urgent contemporary concerns, from environmental issues and wellbeing, technology and creative industries, to urban planning and regulation.

Between 2011 and 2016, LSE received almost £10m from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to support knowledge exchange and impact (KEI) activities (“processes and activities of engaging non-academics with academics and their research,” and, “the changes brought about as a result of academic research in the wider community.”)

The overall goal [of KEI] is to enhance the visibility and ability of LSE research and expertise to ‘make a difference’ to the world outside academia. £5million of the School’s allocation was invested directly into its HEIF5 Bid Fund, set up to allow academics to realise this goal.

The Research Division is holding a special event with previous HEIF recipients to consider the challenges in undertaking innovative knowledge exchange activities, how to maximise opportunities for impact and how to sustain engagement after HEIF awards come to an end.



Open to: all researchers interested in learning more about KEI from colleagues with recent experience of these activities.

Lunch provided.