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Research and Innovation Briefing Research and Innovation Briefing Introduction Celebrating the diversity of Research and innovation are the beating heart of higher education. They the higher education sector ensure the generation of new knowledge on which the UK’s international reputation for excellence rests. Continuous creation and dissemination of this knowledge, as well as the high-level skills that research engenders in Briefing 3: Research and academics, students and public and private sector collaborators, also Innovation underpins current – and future – economic growth. This is a new series of monthly This is the third in a series of briefings highlighting the contribution of a range of institutions that are often not featured in the national spotlight – briefings produced by GuildHE from the highly specialised subject-specific institutions, to smaller looking at different aspects of a institutions with just a few thousand students to larger institutions with a diverse higher education sector. particular focus, whether delivering part-time courses or celebrating their religious roots. February 2015 This briefing focuses on research and innovation in these institutions and the impact this has on society, culture and the economy in the UK and Briefing 2: World-Class beyond. Infrastructure 1. Environment small, specialist and locally facing higher Briefing 1: Student Experience and Engagement The creation of new knowledge that education institutions (HEIs) embedded combines excellence with impact is “the in international research and innovation life-blood of economic growth and societal systems can increase and sustain their 1. Research Councils UK, progress”1. contributions to regional and sectorial http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK- economic growth. prod/assets/documents/RCUKStra There are centres of excellent research tegicVision.pdf The project demonstrated how these operating within and across all universities 2. Innovation systems and the role diverse institutions – working with and higher education institutions, as of small and specialist Higher shown in both the Research Assessment public and private partners in specialist Education institutions published in Exercise (RAE) 2008 and the recent sectors, including food security, the April 2014 in partnership with the Research Excellence Framework (REF) creative industries, health, and social OECD, and available online at: 2014. The amount of research and subject innovation – possess a unique potential, specialism may vary, but this excellence is enabled in part by new technologies, to www.guildhe.ac.uk/publications important to foster and support, and collaborate with diverse bodies of users: students, graduates, businesses, and should be funded wherever it is found. Address: providers of public services. GuildHE Limited In 2014, at a time when Government Woburn House support for the innovation and research These institutions have been 20 Tavistock Square potential for business and higher particularly adept at leveraging small education collaboration was undergoing a pots of funding, innovating both in London substantial recalibration towards a more terms of how they integrate research WC1H 9HB ‘activist’ or ‘interventionist’ approach, a into the academic, civic and enterprise- 2 © GuildHE (This information may be freely used major GuildHE project explored and informed culture of the university or and copied for non-commercial purposes, demonstrated the ways in which college. provided that the source is acknowledged.) ‘Debates about Higher Education Case study: The CREST Summer School In September 2014 CREST and GuildHE reform have often concentrated on played host to PhD candidates and Early teaching quality and incentives to Career Researchers from 17 institutions improve it. At other times we have at the first CREST Summer School. talked about world-class research Developed by Heads of Research from and how it will drive economic 22 institutions, the event focused on performance and the global how – and why – researchers engage reputation of our universities. with audiences beyond the academy. 27 Ministers regularly talk about research students and staff with teaching institutions and research- leadership potential spent the two days intensive universities, but less learning how to design collaborative often about how the two projects; discussing research projects important agendas come with potential collaborators (including together.’ the Crafts and Design Councils, UnLtd Professor Chris Gaskell, Principal of and the Young Foundation); thinking the Royal Agricultural University about how to better disseminate and Chair of CREST research (with representatives from Taylor & Francis and Routledge); and These institutions simultaneously Celebrating the diversity reflecting on research skills (with Vitae). make use of long-standing relationships with industry networks of the higher education Participants also visited the British to encourage research, innovation sector and knowledge exchange Library to talk about their current HE initiatives and collections, and spent an partnerships, and to embed these afternoon at the Wellcome Trust and symbiotic networks and the new Collections learning about their various knowledge they generate in the Briefing 3: Research and curriculum. funding programmes, and designing Innovation potential collaborative projects that were then pitched to the Trust’s staff. Dr Research Networks Brian Lobel from the University of There are many examples of universities working together to Chichester, Wellcome Trust Public February 2015 Engagement Fellow, spoke at the develop strategic research Summer School dinner, offering advice – partnerships, with N8, M5, GW4 and both practical and inspirational – on his Eastern Arc often cited. These own research into how performance can networks allow universities to make be used to communicate complex ideas the most of their important role in ‘The University of the Arts about the experience of serious illness, the research and innovation London is not a traditional ecosystem. and what is possible when you think university...our 1,200+ teaching creatively about the different audiences staff, as active professional for research. Another good example of a research artists, practitioners, designers, network is Consortium for Research “Those two days were full of innovative Excellence, Support and Training critics, and theorists, leads the ideas that made me rethink the way in (CREST), founded in 2008 by 12 way on creative and which I approach my research and GuildHE institutions; the experimental practice. Each understand it. It also opened up new organisation has since grown to 22 College has extensive horizons of thinking productively members in 2015. CREST enables the engagement and relationships beyond the PhD itself, and more into sharing of best practice with respect with industry partners that public engagement, which I personally to, support for and management of promote dense linkages found a vital issue to consider.” research, and means that research between working and learning.’ Hawra Salman, Phd Student, students and staff can create new Dani Salvadori, Director of University for the Creative Arts and networks built on discrete Innovation, Business and CREST Summer School participant specialisms and shared expertise. External Relations, University CREST also allows for joint of the Arts London. investments in infrastructure, for example through CREST Collections, the Group’s Open Access repository which makes it possible for the public to gain access to emerging ‘pure’ and translational research, © GuildHE (This information may be Image: Summer School participants freely used and copied for non- develop collaborative research projects see the case study on the left, for commercial purposes, provided that the around the theme of public health at the information about the CREST source is acknowledged.) Wellcome Trust, 8th September 2014. Summer School. Case Study: University of Chichester 2. Excellence Sports science Dr Steve Myers, Reader in Exercise Excellence in research is not Physiology and colleagues have determined by the scale but by undertaken research into the design of achieving an understanding – and High Speed Marine Craft (HSMC), ultimately a direct insight – into a assessing human factors that impact on difficult question. A diverse range of performance, agility, control and stamina. institutions continue (as highlighted in The research has contributed to improved part by this briefing) to demonstrate working conditions and working practices, their ability to take on some of the as well as equipment design and most pertinent and challenging procurement for military and civil personal questions facing society in the 21st in the UK and overseas. century. The initial interdisciplinary research team Some smaller and more specialist was funded by the UK Ministry of Defence; institutions have shown that they are the Engineering and Physical Sciences particularly agile when it comes to Research Council (EPSRC) awarded matching their expert knowledge, additional funding. Theoretical and gleaned in the laboratory, the clinic, Celebrating the practical research – including sea-trials – the studio and/or library to real-world diversity of the higher created a new representative data-set situations with the aim of designing that underpinned a series of academic practical solutions for public and education sector articles reporting the findings. This caught private sector partners. the attention of additional international partners,
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