News and Events

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.

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.

Join the University of Manchester for an online workshop supporting the development of a framework for partnerships between academics and creative industry professionals.

We’ve launched a dedicated Members Platform in partnership with SHAPE venture getTWOit, open to all members of Aspect Member organisations.

Zinc’s next mission to transform the industries with the most impact on the environmental crisis is now live!

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

Chris Fellingham and Steven Woods discuss how to develop a SHAPE brand with the relaunch of ARC.

An examination of the development of SHAPE commercialisation by Thierry Heles for Global Venturing

Join the Ludic Labs team for this webinar exploring the challenges of producing educational games and the best ways to enhance commercialisation and impact.

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)

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.

With only one week to go until Aspect Festival21 we are delighted to share the full schedule. Register to join us!

Join us on the 23rd June 2021 for the ARC Accelerator Showcase

A one-day showcase event from the Methods for Change team.

A call for posters from post-graduate researchers using transformative social science methods

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.

Find out more about the first joint University Accelerator of its kind in Europe.

SHAPE is a new collective name for social sciences, humanities and the arts

This event will virtually celebrate the incredible journey that Zinc’s Mission 3 Founders have been on since September 2019.

This online session is the final pitching event for Zinc’s Mission 3 and will provide an opportunity to hear from the Founders.