News and Events

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.

The Aspect Network is seeking a supplier to conduct an evaluation of outcomes and impact (social and economic) from Aspect members’ commercialisation activities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A unique opportunity to be part of the UK’s first cross-university network focused on investing into SHAPE ventures.

Join in with a day of interactive, in-person, showcases and workshops with ASPECT’s Translational Impact Accelerator Hub and Cardiff University!

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’).

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…

Join theMethods for Change Team two interactive events on a diversity of social science methods for understanding and addressing 21st century challenges!

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.

UKRI and Zinc are pleased to announce the 4th funding round for the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards.

The team from the School of Design of the Royal College of Art is developing a design-driven training programme to support social entrepreneurship.

Join the team from the Aspect-funded Games Hub for this innovative event bringing together games produced by academics across the Aspect network.

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!

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.