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    • Gain practical insights into pathways like consultancy, Knowledge Exchange, and contract research, and how these pathways for engaging with partners (including businesses, NGOs, and charities) can help to scale research and its impact. To support those new to these topics, we provide a pre-course offline training module, ensuring participants are well-prepared. In the live course, participants will learn tools for effective engagement with stakeholders for successful outcomes. This ten-hour interactive online course (four hours of live training and an expectation of two to six hours of self-learning) offers essential strategies for navigating communication routes within academic and professional contexts, validated by an Aspect micro-credential highlighting the skills developed.

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    • Master LinkedIn’s power for academic and professional growth. Learn to set up your profile, promote research, identify collaborators, and expand professional networks effectively. Real-life examples and best practices ensure a comprehensive understanding. Join this five-hour online course to optimise your LinkedIn presence and receive an Aspect micro-credential, validating enhanced proficiency.

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    • This six-session online workshop series offers hands-on training in digital tools, empowering you to effectively communicate research, engage wider audiences, and create scalable impact. Whether participants are just starting out or looking to enhance existing skills, these sessions will provide actionable knowledge to boost their academic and professional profile.

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    • We’re pioneering the recognition of roles and activities within SHAPE through Aspect micro-credentials. 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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    Social Business Model Innovation Report

    Exploring how social science startups ideate and evolve their business models

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    Research Method: Participant Packs

    Exploring Participant Packs: A Flexible, Inclusive and Accessible Method, with the Methods for Change project.

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    ASAP Webinar – Launch Event

    ASAP Webinar Launch event

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    Research Method: Elliptical Methodologies

    Exploring the Elliptical Methodologies research method with the Methods for Change project.

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    Research Method: Mobile Visual Methods

    Exploring the Mobile Visual Methods approach with the Methods for Change project.

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    Case study: Here We Flow

    Here We Flow is a social start-up bringing organic feminine hygiene products to the mass market in the UK.

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    ARC Project profile: Set, Ready, Safety

    Lisa Kelly provides an overview of her venture, a digital training, safety and compliance app for film production.

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    ARC Project profile: Situate

    Lawrence Barsalou provides an overview of his venture, which aims to assess a health behaviour, like stress, on two dimensions of situatedness.

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    Research Method: Graphic Interviews

    Exploring the graphic interviews: graphic elicitation and sketch reportage research method.

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    ARC Project profile: OnTrack Rehab

    Gianpaolo Fusari provides an overview of his venture, OnTrack Rehab helping stroke survivors.

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    ARC Project profile: SPARC

    Mark Doffman provides an overview of his venture, supporting art organisations in a post-pandemic world.

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    Research Methods: Geographical Biographies

    Exploring the Geographical Biography research method with the Methods for Change project.

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    Case study: Generation Purple

    Generation Purple seeks to enhance diversity in graduate recruitment through digital initiatives

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    Research Method: Participatory Qualitative Interviews

    Exploring the Participatory Qualitative Interviews research method with the Methods for Change project.

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    Social Science / Social Ventures

    Which is what and what is the difference?

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    ARC Accelerator: Class of 2021

    Welcoming the Aspect Research Commercialisation (ARC) Accelerator class of 2021

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    Case study: Devie

    Devie is a digital coaching app supporting parents of early years children.

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    Methods for Change: Project update March 2021

    The Methods for Change team reflect on key lessons and challenges faced in their project so far

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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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