Knowledge Exchange and Impact: What, How, Why?

Course Details

When academics talk about Knowledge Exchange and Impact, what do they mean? How can you do Knowledge Exchange and Impact in meaningful ways, bringing benefits to your own research and career, and making a difference in the world?

This session will explore Knowledge Exchange and Impact for historians and those working in the humanities more broadly. We will investigate terms and methodologies, look at some example projects, think about best practice, and build a toolkit together. We will also think carefully about the ethics and values of Knowledge Exchange and Impact, and how we can act responsibly and generously as researchers and collaborators. We will look beyond models of engagement and ‘Impact’ towards reciprocal processes of co-creation and participatory research.

This training session will include the REF and KEF as contexts, but aims to think more capaciously about what Impact and Knowledge Exchange can mean and be.

Presented by Professor Catherine Clarke (Director, Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, Institute of Historical Research) and featuring Dr Ruth Slatter (Lecturer in Historic Environment and Knowledge Exchange Manager, Institute of Historical Research), the session will draw in varied experiences, case studies and resources, with short video clips.