02 Dec 2022
A unique opportunity to be part of the UK’s first cross-university network focused on investing into SHAPE ventures.
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24 Nov 2022Join in with a day of interactive, in-person, showcases and workshops with ASPECT’s Translational Impact Accelerator Hub and Cardiff University!
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17 Nov 2022
Digital SHAPE is a joint meeting of ASPECT, ASTP and Praxis Auril, hosted by Cambridge Enterprise. This one-day, in-person meeting focuses on Digital Innovation in the context of knowledge transfer in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts (‘SHAPE’).
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11 Nov 2022
As part of the activities of the Games Hub, a project funded by ASPECT, the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow, the KE & impact team of the COSS, University of Glasgow, held this event to support the work on gaming and innovation of both academics and professional services. Here's what they found...
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07 Nov 2022
Join theMethods for Change Team two interactive events on a diversity of social science methods for understanding and addressing 21st century challenges!
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24 Oct 2022
4th November 2022: Aspect, The British Academy, ARC and Aspect Angels have joined forces to present reSHAPE, the first comprehensive showcase event for high-calibre social science, humanities and arts (SHAPE) ventures.
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24 Oct 2022
UKRI and Zinc are pleased to announce the 4th funding round for the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards.
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18 Oct 2022
The team from the School of Design of the Royal College of Art is developing a design-driven training programme to support social entrepreneurship.
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18 Oct 2022
Join the team from the Aspect-funded Games Hub for this innovative event bringing together games produced by academics across the Aspect network.
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27 Sep 2022
Join the Methods for Change Team to learn more about how Innovate UK funding can support the use of social science methods for addressing 21st century challenges!
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07 Sep 2022
Led by the University of Manchester, Methods for Change continues to highlight the importance of social science methods within non-academic sectors.
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02 Sep 2022
Awarded under the APEX scheme (Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary Research) with support from the Leverhulme Trust, the funding will enable established researchers with a strong track record in their respective field to pursue research that spans the social sciences and humanities, engineering and the sciences.
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02 Sep 2022
In this webinar researchers from the Royal College of Art Fashion Department (RCA), Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI) and Cranfield University will share their findings and the development of a new methodology which joins Fashion Practice Research to Human Factors Research.
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25 Aug 2022
The Aspect Forum is held every six months and is a chance for Aspect members to come together to meet and share. Aspect Forum is open to employees of all Aspect member institutions. In some cases, speakers and guests are invited to join (for example, if they are connected to specific Aspect funded projects).
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25 Aug 2022
The Methods for Change team are seeking to speak to academics who are involved with KTPs within the ASPECT
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03 Aug 2022
Open to all Aspect Members, the new SHAPE pre-accelerator programme has launched to support academics and build knowledge and experience, prior to them taking part in the ARC accelerator programme.
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29 Jul 2022
The University of Sussex are recruiting people to make a real difference in the world through collaboration.
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29 Jul 2022
Time is ruining out! Zinc's Venture Builder Programme supports founders from multidisciplinary backgrounds to build evidence-based companies around social missions, and provides a £250,000 investment opportunity for academics to transform the industries that have the most impact on the environment.
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29 Jul 2022
Are you a researcher in social science, humanities or the arts? Do you want to learn more about how to create impact at scale from your research, and reach more of the populations you can support?
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19 Jul 2022
From health and wellbeing to crime, equality, education and identity, this event has been created to encourage, support and create opportunities for social science researchers to engage with academic and non-academic audiences.
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05 Jul 2022
This July, the LSE Generate Accelerator Programme (GAP) - an annual accelerator run by LSE Generate, the entrepreneurship centre of the London School of Economics - will be celebrating its third cohort in this finale to the 2022 programme.
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15 Jun 2022
Join the University of Manchester for an online workshop supporting the development of a framework for partnerships between academics and creative industry professionals.
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07 Jun 2022
We've launched a dedicated Members Platform in partnership with SHAPE venture getTWOit, open to all members of Aspect Member organisations.
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01 Jun 2022
Zinc's next mission to transform the industries with the most impact on the environmental crisis is now live!
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01 Jun 2022
Aspect and the British Academy have teamed up to combine learnings and activities between the Aspect Network and the British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network
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30 May 2022
Chris Fellingham and Steven Woods discuss how to develop a SHAPE brand with the relaunch of ARC.
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30 May 2022
An examination of the development of SHAPE commercialisation by Thierry Heles for Global Venturing
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30 May 2022
Join the Ludic Labs team for this webinar exploring the challenges of producing educational games and the best ways to enhance commercialisation and impact.
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25 Jun 2021
Join the Aspect Innovation Fellows on June 30th in an innovative workshop led by Ser-huang Poon (Professor of Finance at AMBS and Founder of the anti-modern slavery social enterprise Enduring Net)
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25 Jun 2021
Join us online July 1st, 12:00-13:45, to celebrate the inaugural launch of our ASPECT-funded Ludic Labs platform, the go-to resource for researchers looking to bring academic ideas to wider audiences with games.
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10 Jun 2021
With only one week to go until Aspect Festival21 we are delighted to share the full schedule. Register to join us!
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24 May 2021
Join us on the 23rd June 2021 for the ARC Accelerator Showcase
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29 Apr 2021
A one-day showcase event from the Methods for Change team.
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04 Feb 2021Aspect
Join us to make an active contribution to the wider debate taking place around how the value and success of social science commercialisation should be measured.
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04 Feb 2021
This event will discuss how – and why - partnerships between researchers and start-ups can be good for everyone involved.
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19 Jan 2021
A showcase of some of the UK's finest social entrepreneurship talent
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14 Jan 2021Zinc
A conversation on research and innovation with Ageing Research at King’s (ARK), Aging2.0 and Zinc
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26 Oct 2020
Different perspectives on how research has supported ventures in this area
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17 Aug 2020LSE
Events exploring the relationship between academia and artists on a broad range of themes
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04 Aug 2020Aspect
Register for our programme of webinars taking place across September and October
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02 Aug 2020
Find out more about the first joint University Accelerator of its kind in Europe.
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15 Jul 2020
This session will explore the crucial role of social sciences, and practicalities of achieving impact, in this area
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09 Jul 2020
Learn more about this new hub for business development
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08 Jul 2020
SHAPE is a new collective name for social sciences, humanities and the arts
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07 Jul 202030th July, Online
This event will virtually celebrate the incredible journey that Zinc’s Mission 3 Founders have been on since September 2019.
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07 Jul 202025th June, Online
This online session is the final pitching event for Zinc’s Mission 3 and will provide an opportunity to hear from the Founders.
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19 Jun 202021 November 2019, Manchester
Better business for people and planet - Bridging research & industry.
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19 Jun 2020AspectBetter Business for People & Planet – Bridging Research & Industry.
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19 Jun 20203 December 2019, Oxford
Building and Scaling a Social Enterprise Ecosystem in Universities
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19 Jun 2020
Are you a social scientist with innovative research ideas that could be developed into a business or social enterprise?
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19 Jun 20205 March 2020, Cardiff
Sharing best practices on how to overcome impediments to commercialisation
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19 Jun 202013 May 2020, Online
This online event will provide an opportunity for businesses, academics, policy makers and others interested in entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and collaborative working to start exploring ways of working together.