The issue of research impact within the REF is one we have been working on with our members over many years. We first tackled the subject back in 2006 when it was still a nascent area, commissioning research on the impacts of some of the early LCACE Seed Fund projects. 

Since then we have programmed regular events on the topic including: 

Impact Narratives,

The Impact of Impact 

The Ref: How was it for You Research, 

Research, Creative Practice and Impact Roundtable 

REF 2021: Impact Guidance Workshop

As work around the proposed Knowledge Exchange Framework develops apace, we were pleased to be invited to talk at Westminster Higher Education’s Forum, ‘Developing the KEF: Collaboration, metrics and the effect on the sector’ (July 2019). We are developing plans for KEF workshops from Autumn 2019.

We established our Inside Out Festival in 2008 as a means of bringing research to wider publics.

The festival ran for almost a decade and it gave all TCCE network members the opportunity to collaborate with many cultural organisations in London to produce a wonderful series of talks, walks, workshops, debates, concerts, hackathons, exhibitions, installations and flash-mobs each year.

Some of those we collaborated with over those years included: Freud Museum, The British Academy, The National Portrait Gallery, RSA, Editorial Intelligence, Tate Britain and Somerset House. Times Higher Education was our regular media partner.

The Inside Out Archive can be found here.

Our research communities are continually at the forefront of generating fresh and compelling knowledge about many facets of our city and urban life.

Walking the City is a TCCE initiative that aims to take that amazing research and knowledge beyond the academy, out of the lecture theatre and onto the streets, bringing to wider attention some of the outstanding work taking place in our universities.

Walks have taken place throughout the city in areas as diverse as: Harsleden, Mayfair, Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, Stepney Green and Stratford. We have taken a break whilst we have been delivering other projects Walking the City will be back soon.

Here are the Walking the City archives for 2016, 2015, 2014.