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    • This course provides insights into licensing, consultancy, and contract research pathways to scale research impact by engaging with businesses, NGOs, and charities. A pre-course offline training module prepares participants, while live sessions focus on stakeholder engagement. The ten-hour online course includes four hours of live training and two to six hours of self-learning. It teaches strategies for effective communication in academic and professional contexts, validated by an Aspect Certified Micro-Credential. For further details and to register click here.

    • Unlock LinkedIn’s potential for academic and career advancement. This course covers profile setup, research promotion, collaborator identification, and network expansion. Through real-life examples and best practices, you’ll gain a thorough understanding. Join this four-hour online training to optimise your LinkedIn presence. This training is accompanied by an online self-learning course accredited by one of our Aspect Certified Micro-Credentials! For further details and to register click here.

    • Learn strategies to enhance the impact of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses and materials. Explore successful approaches for sustainable outcomes and partner engagement. This flexible, one-hour lunch-and-learn series allows participants to choose individual sessions or complete the entire series. Packed with practical advice, peer examples, and inspiration, and accompanied by a plethora of additional resources and materials for you to digest at your own pace on the Impact Toolkits community platform where you can connect with peers participating in the programme. For further details and to register click here.

    • We’re pioneering the recognition of roles and activities within SHAPE through Aspect Smart Badges. These blockchain-based micro-credentials produced in collaboration with getTWOit Platforms detail the skills gained across our training and initiatives, so you as a learner can clearly see the skills you are developing and your strengths and weaknesses.

    Self-learning

    Recognising the demands of busy schedules and global time zones, we offer online training materials for Aspect Members to access at their convenience. Developed collaboratively to empower academics and professional support staff, our suite of resources includes pathways like The Social Venture Pathway, helping academics launch their own social ventures; the Games Development Pathway, offering insights from industry and academic professionals of converting research into both tabletop and digital video games, and Building on ABC developed by Aspect Members the University of Oxford, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow, University of Birmingham, York University, and Durham University providing a comprehensive knowledge exchange training programme.  We also collaborate with a number of external organisations to share their learnings, with courses on embedding sustainability, legal structures for ventures and tools for effective project communication and marketing

    Collective-learning

    Since our inception, we’ve championed experimentation and collaborative learning to foster SHAPE ventures’ growth. Uniquely, our network is built by members, ensuring that our collective knowledge is shared and utilised for the benefit of all. Our upcoming training sessions cover topics such as the nuances of licensing, consultancy, and contract research; strategies to promote research, identify collaborators, and enhancing scholarly impact on LinkedIn, and approaches to structuring CPD programmes, leveraging research outcomes, and engaging partners effectively, all designed to enhance skills and impact. These training sessions are held online with time commitments from four hours to 10 depending on the course. As with all of our training, participants will be issued with micro-credentials via our Smart Badges upon completion to attest to the knowledge and skills gained

     

    Watch, Listen, Read

    Since 2018, our members have been actively collaborating on the development of resources and materials derived from the Aspect Testbed projects

    These initiatives provide valuable insights, tools, and resources to navigate the dynamic SHAPE ecosystem, empowering individuals and organisations to maximise positive impact from SHAPE research

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    Methods for Change at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2022

    In this blog the Methods for Change team reflect on two interactive sessions on spatial, qualitative, and mixed methods convened as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.

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    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!

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    Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map

    Interactive map detailing the entrepreneurship offerings at member institutions.

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    Aspect Learning Gain Report 2021

    Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme

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    An exploratory look at social sciences intrapreneurship

    An overview of intrapreneurship; why it’s important and examples of university intrapreneurship.

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    Research Commercialisation Toolkits

    A selection of tools to support and show the possibilities of research commercialisation.

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    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. 

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    Social Science Commercialisation Case Studies

    Sharing insights and examples that inspire social science commercialisation.

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    Methods For Change: Showcasing Innovative Social Science Methodologies

    A detailed Final report by the Methods for Change project team.

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    Case study template for Comms and KE COP

    Template of questions to help create case studies for comma and KE

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    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…

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    ABaCuSS Final Project Report: Programme Overview and Learnings

    Sharing ‘good practice’ learnings from the ABaCuSS pilot programme.

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    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?

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    Toolkit

    The Aspect toolkit captures the lessons learned during Aspect’s first three years, disseminating shared knowledge and providing practical guidance that other institutions can use for inspiration in their own activities

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