Discover stories, ideas and strategies for sharing know-how and expertise in SHAPE research commercialisation.
Resources

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.

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.

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.

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!

11 November 2022
Let’s talk about games
On Saturday the 22nd October 2022 at the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow, the KE & impact team of the COSS, University of Glasgow, held an event tilted Let’s talk about games within the Festival of Social Science (FoSS) funded by the ESRC.

7 November 2022
Event: Methods for Change – Social science methodologies for 21st century problems
Join the Methods for Change Team two interactive events on a diversity of social science methods for understanding and addressing 21st century challenges!

12 October 2021
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map
Interactive map detailing the entrepreneurship offerings at member institutions.

11 October 2021
Aspect Learning Gain Report 2021
Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme

30 September 2021
An exploratory look at social sciences intrapreneurship
An overview of intrapreneurship; why it’s important and examples of university intrapreneurship.

30 September 2021
Research Commercialisation Toolkits
A selection of tools to support and show the possibilities of research commercialisation.

30 September 2021
Introducing ASAP Club…
Many students have innovative ideas that would benefit from further guidance and support, whether they end up building ventures or not. Continuing to extend support to an already actively interested group is an efficient avenue for stimulating and growing the social science innovation pipeline.

30 September 2021
Social Science Commercialisation Case Studies
Sharing insights and examples that inspire social science commercialisation.

30 September 2021
Methods For Change: Showcasing Innovative Social Science Methodologies
A detailed Final report by the Methods for Change project team.

30 September 2021
Case study template for Comms and KE COP
Template of questions to help create case studies for comma and KE

30 September 2021
ABaCuSS Student Reflections
Six students from the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester were placed into intrapreneurship-based placements within companies for 8 weeks, to test working models of intrapreneurship. This is what they found…

30 September 2021
ABaCuSS Final Project Report: Programme Overview and Learnings
Sharing ‘good practice’ learnings from the ABaCuSS pilot programme.

27 September 2021
A look back at the challenges faced in engaging and supporting social science entrepreneurship
One of the key challenges discussed among Aspect Entrepreneurship CoP members concerns the language around entrepreneurship. Are the ways in which entrepreneurship has been communicated relevant to some social sciences disciplines?

27 September 2021
Aspect: Stimulating the pipeline workshop report
A report sharing outputs from a workshop series on stimulating the pipeline for social science research commercialisation.

27 September 2021
Zinc Case Studies
Case studies demonstrating some of the partnerships between Zinc ventures and universities.

27 September 2021
Innovation Fellows Project Report
This report provides detailed explanations and findings of Manchester’s pilot.