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News and Events
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7 March 2023
Profile, Prospects, Positioning, Product Development, Promotion: The 5 x Ps to Unlocking Your KTP Market
The University of Plymouth are running an innovative workshop to explore a strategic approach to true market engagement, and provide ideas to refresh your own KTP marketing plan and approach.
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20 February 2023
Opportunity!! Join us in demonstrating impact!
The Aspect Network is seeking a supplier to conduct an evaluation of outcomes and impact (social and economic) from Aspect members’ commercialisation activities.
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6 February 2023
Applications are open for LSE Generate’s two bootcamps taking place in Lisbon in February.
LSE Generate are running a brand new entrepreneurship bootcamp for Founders to develop their practical business skills and a brand new intrapreneurship experience which aims to help students (and alumni) better understand the importance of nurturing an enterprising mindset and its crucial role within corporate innovation.
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6 February 2023
The @UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Catalyst Awards is now OPEN!
The Catalyst Awards support researchers to take an entrepreneurial approach, using their research to create impactful and scalable products and services that improve later life.

1 February 2023
SHAPE Pre-Accelerator 2023
The SHAPE Pre-Accelerator is an online programme that supports researchers from the Social Sciences, Humanities
and the Arts explore routes to generating sustainable impact at scale.
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1 February 2023
HOPE INTO ACTION | Social Sciences Impact Conference, 20-21 March 2023 – registration now open!
This two-day conference (20-21 March, St Anne’s College, Oxford) will celebrate engaged and impactful social sciences research, and provide inspiration and support for researchers’ non-academic stakeholders hoping to create change for the better through their work.
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18 January 2023
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL ARE OFFERING FREE TRAINING SESSIONS!
The University of Bristol are offering free training sessions run online to support academics to understand the potential impact of their research and supporting them with how to get there.
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5 January 2023
reSHAPE launch
On the 4th of November 2022 the first edition of reSHAPE was launched. A collaboration between Aspect, The British Academy, ARC and Aspect Angels, the event brought together pioneering SHAPE ventures, investors, policy makers, academics and key players in the sector.
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3 January 2023
An introduction to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (Innovate UK)
The Methods for Change (M4C) team delivered a session organised by Dr Temidayo Eseonu on Innovate UK funding, in particular, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) that link businesses, academics, and inspiring graduates and post-graduates.
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2 December 2022
Opportunity! Angel investment network manager
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 November 2022
ASPECT Translational Impact Accelerator Hub: SHAPE Pre-Accelerator Showcase
Join 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 November 2022
Digital Shape: creating capacity to support digital innovation in AHSS
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 November 2022
Let’s talk about games
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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7 November 2022
Event: Methods for Change – Social science methodologies for 21st century problems
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 October 2022
reSHAPE: investing in impact at scale
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 October 2022
UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards
UKRI and Zinc are pleased to announce the 4th funding round for the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards.
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18 October 2022
Survey on social entrepreneurship (closes 15 November)
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 October 2022
Let’s talk about games!
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 September 2022
EVENT: Introduction to Innovate UK funding
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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2 September 2022
The British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society announce funding for eight interdisciplinary research projects based at universities across the UK.
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.