ESRC Impact Acceleration 2019 Awarded Projects
Responsive Mode Impact Fund
The Responsive mode fund provides flexible funding (normally up to £15,000) for cross-disciplinary projects that demonstrate strong user engagement with the potential to impact on policy and/or practice in the private, public and third sectors.
Dr Nicola Favretto
Advancing the impacts of socio-ecological restoration research through knowledge exchange and multi-stakeholder partnerships in South Africa
More Jessica Drinkwater
Whose decision is it anyway?: Forum Theatre to facilitate reflection on meaningful patient involvement in general practice shared organisation decision making
More Professor Anna Mdee
Building a knowledge exchange hub on water management and governance for Eastern and Southern Africa
More Dr Judith Hanks
Well-being and Burnout in Teaching: Unpacking the Causes and Tackling the Problems
More Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner
The Risks and Opportunities of Emerging Market Economy Currency Internationalisation: the role of Brazil in the Mercosur
More Professor Julia Martin-Ortega
Activating change on environmental governance through performance-based methods (PerformingChange)
More Professor Lindsay Stringer
Community participation in the governance of protected areas: Sharing lessons across Africa to inform establishment of a transboundary biosphere reserve
More Dr Samuel Farley
Developing employees’ verbal conflict de-escalation skills to prevent bullying and harassment
More Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira
Building an International Network for Public Engagement with Parliaments
More Dr Ana Manzano
Evaluating the Impact of Global Digital Health Communities: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis
More Professor Naomi Brookes & Dr Anna Velenturf
The social, economic, technical and environmental values of North Sea oil & gas decommissioning for local communities and companies
More Knowledge Exchange Fellowships
The aim of the Knowledge Exchange Fellowships scheme is to facilitate interactions between external organisations and the University which build and strengthen relationships and facilitate knowledge exchange. Funding of up to £10,000 per fellowship is available to allow academic staff with the opportunity to work with a non-academic partner at their site, of for a non-academic partner to work on a project at the university for up to 12-months on either a full or part-time basis.
Dr Kate Hardy
Improving employment conditions and labour market engagement for people with chronic energy limiting conditions
More Dr Jana Javornik
BITC: Redesigning ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women List’ assessment process
More Public Engagement (PE) Fund
To stimulate a broad range of suitable approaches to impact, funding of up to £5,000 is available through our Public Engagement fund to support public engagement within the social sciences and promote public understanding and the impacts of research on cultural life. This fund aims to promote accessible forms of dissemination and knowledge-exchange.
Rapid Action Fund
The Rapid Action Fund allows social scientists to react quickly to influence government, national and international debate, or respond to tactical, urgent and pressing opportunities in short timescales. Funding of up to £2,000 is available through this fund.
Dr Caroline Dyer
Covid-19 Rapid Action Fund: India – Covid Assessment & Response Dashboard (I-CARD)
More Professor Mark Mon-Williams
Covid-19 Rapid Action Fund: A literature review of the evidence for successful post-disaster interventions relating to: (i) schools; (ii) vulnerable children
More Dr Amanda Waterman
Covid-19 Rapid Action Fund: Collecting school data on home learning provision and interactions with vulnerable children during the COVID-19 lockdown
More Dr James SImpson
English for Speakers of Other Languages - A Critical Exploration of Practice, Policy and Language Ideology
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Knowledge Exchange Fellowships
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