MRW13: Delivering Impact Event

Time:: 14:00 - 17:00
Date:: 18 March 2013
Venue:: Building 67, Room 1027, Highfield Campus

For more information regarding this event, please email interdisciplinary@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

The impact agenda is a hot topic for the academic community, bringing both benefits and challenges. This Delivering Research Impact event will provide an opportunity for all researchers and staff supporting research to explore: • What is impact? • What are Research Councils/funders expecting and looking for? • What does excellent impact look like?

An opening panel session will draw together invited speakers from the Research Councils (BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, NIHR/NETSCC) for a keynote discussion offering insights into the external drivers affecting the impact agenda, institutional support, how the information collected is used by research councils, and accelerating impact.

An Impact Showcase will follow the key-note, featuring examples from Southampton's research portfolio. This interactive session will aim to inspire our research community and help to develop strategic thinking around achieving and demonstrating impact.

Featured projects:

Intelligent traffic and vehicle systems - Professor Nick Hounsell

Preserving wildlife habitats in Belize for the wider environmental protection of Central America - Dr Patrick Doncaster

High voltage cable rating - Dr Alun Vaughan

Scale, quality and population impact of informed choices, model of family planning and reproductive health programme in China - Dr Sabu Padmadas, Dr James Brown

Organ tissue donation - Dr Tracy Long-Sutehall

Sacred hearts, secret music: recreating the sound of a sixteenth-century convent - Dr Laurie Strass

Development of interferon beta as a therapy for asthma exacerbations caused by viruses - Prof Ratko Djukanovic

Kids to School - Professor Julia Bennell

Please be aware that filming and photography will be carried out throughout the Multidisciplinary Research Week. If you would like to object to being filmed or photographed throughout the event, then please contact interdisciplinary@soton.ac.uk .

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