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Bridging the gap:taking knowledge from research to the outside world
Richard Wells and Michael Wykes, University of Exeter
7th April 2011
Challenges I
• Proactive or Reactive?• Money, money, money• Developing a shared understanding• Competing Interests• Location/Geography• Timescales• Rights and Benefits
• ‘Unknown Knowns’• Managing Expectations • Language and Perception• Communication: involve at every stage?• 8-page CDA Case for Support / Je-S?• Unsuccessful bids
Challenges II
Opportunities I
• Win-Win• Success Rates• REF – Outputs, Impact Statement and Case
Studies• De-mythologising and Evangelising• Capacity Building
Opportunities II
• Scalability• International Comparators (PROTTEC)• Evidence; GVA• Combating the ring-fence• Surviving the 2010s• Satisfaction
How to build a bridge
Engagement and exchange not mere ‘transfer’
• The Link Fund for academics• Bridging the gaps – pilot funding• Work placements and internships for
postgraduates
Bridging the Gap
• Community and Landscape: Transforming Access to the Heritage of the Poltimore Estate, in partnership with Poltimore House (£160k, 2010-2012)
• Penlee house Museum and Gallery: Connecting with the Local Community, in partnership with the Penlee House and Gallery Museum (£103k, 2008-9)
• Geevor Tin Mine Museum, in partnership with Pendeen Community Heritage (£66k, 2007-9)
• Revitalizing the Prom: Popular Performance and History at the Seaside, in partnership with the Pierrotters (£28k, 2010)
Bridging the Gap
• Collaborative Doctoral Awards in partnership with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site (2010-15, £150k)
• Exetreme Imagination: Festival of Literature for Children and Young People (£125k, 2010 )
• Small is Beautiful? Visual and Material Cultures of Making and Mending (£87k, 2011)
• The Role of Values in Responding to Major Social Change: Christian Churches and the Transition Town Movement (£227k, 2010-13)
• Wordquest Devon (£150k, 2010-2012)
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