“A healthy engagement between academics and policymakers is esstential to the provision of informed, evidence-based, world-class policymaking.”
The Council for Science and Technology
Our work
Impact consultancy
We draw up research dissemination strategies to produce impact for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Research Councils UK’s Pathways to Impact funding. This often involves integrated campaigns to communicate findings to policymakers, businesses, not-for-profit organisations, media and the public.
We hold workshops to share with university academics techniques for communicating research to achieve impact and we can help articulate evidence of impact for case studies submitted to the REF.
Industry collaboration
We highlight the industrial applications of complex research and communicate the benefits to relevant industry sectors with the aim of setting up R&D partnerships, creating licensing opportunities and commercialising research.
We can work with university teams to attract key figures from business and industry to workshops where academics can showcase the capabilities of their research and elaborate on how it can be put into practice.
Launching new ventures
We help new research initiatives articulate their propositions with a view to maximum engagement. We produce brochures, research briefings and other marketing material to support the launch itself and beyond, as well as coordinating media campaigns to ensure optimum exposure.
Influencing policy
Policymakers seek quality academic research to make evidence-based policy decisions. We help identify the national, European or global policy implications of a particular research project and present the conclusions in an accessible way to key policy advisers and politicians.
Using our growing links and contacts in Westminster and Whitehall, we look to set up meetings between academics and policymakers, giving researchers the opportunity to feed their findings into the policy process.
Raising profiles
Our extensive journalistic backgrounds enable us to identify and successfully pitch research stories to achieve maximum impact in the national and international media, trade and other specialist press.
We have co-authored comment pieces with academics in world-leading newspapers and we have achieved significant coverage across the Chinese media due to our particularly strong links with the region. We keep on top of the news agenda to ensure our academics have the opportunity to provide expert analysis on the issues of the day.
Engaging stakeholders
We write and design newsletters, briefings, conference reviews and full and summarised annual reports to keep stakeholders informed of our clients’ research output.
Research news centre
Our research news centre features details of our recent work, case studies and analysis of the latest developments in research impact and communications.
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Latest case studies
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