Interchange
There is often overlap in aims and approaches to impact between the Arts and Social Sciences, and this overlap can prove fertile ground for innovation, collaboration, and peer support.
In order to nurture a collegial approach to impact, as well as foster inter- and multi-disciplinary opportunities, we have set up Interchange.
Taking place once a term, Interchange is a community of practice series organised by the Impact Teams supporting the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. Interchange sessions will provide:
- Thematic insights into different impact pathways
- A forum for sharing ideas, best practice, and opportunities for collaboration
- Reflections and advice on working with different stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries and managing these relationships
- An opportunity to celebrate and publicise the rich portfolio of impact work taking place across and between the two faculties and to reflect on REF 2021
- A place to share and discuss sector updates
- Support for new and evolving impact work
Each session will focus on a different topic or aspect of research impact, and will host speakers with experience in that area who will share an overview of their work and the insights they have gained. This will be followed by a Q&A, as well as a chance to further discuss the topic, network, and for the audience to share any experience and reflections they might have, too.
Interchange is open to all researchers at any career stage. Doctoral students are also welcome.
Lunch will be provided – please make sure to register your attendance so we can cater accordingly.
We hope to inspire and facilitate intra- and inter-faculty dialogue, collaboratively troubleshoot common challenges, and to showcase a variety of ways to achieve impact from your research. We look forward to seeing you!
Series Schedule
Getting Started With Impact
- Date tbc (likely Wednesday 6 November)
- Times tbc (likely 13:00 - 14:30 followed by time to network)
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- Lunch provided – please make sure to register so we can cater accordingly
For the first edition of Interchange of the 2024-25 academic year join a panel of humanities and social sciences researchers who have recently embarked upon a journey to deriving impact from their research as they discuss the experience, what has worked for them, and answer questions.
Research impact is a well-established part of the UK higher education landscape. The term was first used by what is now UK Research and Innovation in 2008, with impact always having been a major component of the Research Excellence Framework. Impact is defined quite broadly as ‘an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia’. Which perhaps explains why despite impact being such a vital part of UK university life many researchers find it tricky figuring out the first steps on their journey to deriving impact from their research. The reality is that each researchers’ journey to deriving impact from their research is individual, though there are tried and tested pathways and templates that can be followed, and it is not something which researchers need puzzle alone.
- Dr. Elizabeth Chant (Department of Global Sustainable Development)
- Dr. Naomi Pullin (Department of History)
- Prof. Innan Sasaki (Warwick Business School)
- Dr. Christopher Strelluf (Department of Applied Linguistics)
- Chair: Prof. Christopher Moran (Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences for Research)
Dr. Elizabeth Chant joined Global Sustainable Development as an Assistant Professor in January 2024 having previously worked in Liberal Arts and Hispanic Studies at Warwick. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with broad interests spanning map history, environmental history, visual culture, tourism studies, sustainable heritage, and Latin American studies. In 2023-24 she was a participant in the Faculty of Art's Future Leaders in Impact Programme (FLIP).
Dr. Naomi Pullin is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She is a historian of the early modern British Atlantic, with particular interests in the gender, religious and political history of Britain and its North American colonies. Her current project A Social History of Solitude in Early Modern Britain, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, explores how time spent alone was understood, articulated, and experienced in early modern Britain. In 2023-24 she was a participant in the Faculty of Art's Future Leaders in Impact Programme (FLIP).
Prof. Innan Sasaki is a Professor in Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School. She is an expert in collective memory and traditions in organisations and fields. Her research intersects sociology and management studies to unveil how social and organisational changes take place in the encounter of tradition vs. modernity having studied long-living and heritage-based craft firms, refugees, and indigenous people to understand how they culturally survive in the changing institutional environment.
Dr. Christopher Strelluf joined Warwick in 2017 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics. He is a sociolinguist whose research has mostly focused on describing varieties of English, and identifying changes in dialects resulting from a range of social and linguistic factors. This includes collaborations with Cockney Cultures to celebrate non-standard Englishes traditionally associated with East London and reduce language prejudice faced by speakers of these varieties. He is a current Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement.
Inclusive Impact
- TBC
- 12:00 - 13:00
Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into our impact activity is essential, regardless of our mode of delivery or the challenge we are seeking to address. How can we ensure these aspects are intrinsic to what we do? And what about impact activity that addresses issues of this nature head on - how might we go about planning such activity, and what are the characteristics of doing it well?
Speakers: TBC
Chair: TBC
