Interchange
There is often overlap in aims and approaches to impact between disciplines, 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 Research & Impact Services (R&IS) Impact Team. 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 Warwick faculties
- 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
Achieving Impact Internationally
- Date: Wednesday 24th June 2026
- Times: 12:00 - 14:00
- Venue: The Oculus, OC1.03
- Lunch provided – please make sure to register so we can cater accordingly
Please register to attend:
Research impact is not limited in the type of research or the potential beneficiaries of the underpinning work. Similarly, the locale of the beneficiaries is not limited to the local region or nationally within the UK. International impact has the potential to significantly expand the sphere of influence of the underpinning research generated by academics. This seminar aims to highlight the breadth of Warwick's international research impact from across the facilities and to open discussions regarding best practice, as well as overcoming the unique challenges associated with generating international impact(s). This seminar is the first in the new series of interdisciplinary interchange seminars, hoping to provide support for and encourage open discussions regarding the multi-faceted nature of research impact.
- Professor Emily Henderson and Professor Ann Stewart -
Advancing a Higher Education Outreach Culture in India - Collaborations and Complexities
- Dr Bronwyn Harris -
REaCH: Expanding health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa through remote consulting
- Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes -
The Challenges and Rewards of Doing International Impact
Professor Emily F. Henderson is Professor and Director of the University Research Centre ‘Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre’ (DEAR), at the University of Warwick, and is located in Education Studies (SELCS). Prof Henderson’s current research projects include a 4-year project on institutional approaches to widening participation in India (‘WAHEI’ - ‘Widening Access to Higher Education in India, Institutional Approaches’) and she is also working on a strand of research about research centres. She is most recently co-author of the book Gendering the Massification Generation: Higher Education Access and Choice in India (Routledge, 2024) and Making Sense of Academic Conferences (Routledge, 2023). She is co-editor of the academic blog Conference Inference and Co-Convenor of Diary Method Community, an online community of practice for diary researchers.
Professor Ann Stewart is a Professor at Warwick Law School. She is a member of the Centre for the Study of Women, the Warwick in India network and Africa hub steering committee. Her research specialises in gender and the law, focussing on issues of gender justice and postcolonialism. She has a particular interest in Eastern and Southern Africa and India. Ann was the Principal Investigator of the Fair Chance Foundation (FCF) project ‘A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana” and is currently the Co-Investigator for Widening Access to Higher Education in India: Institutional Approaches (WAHEI), which is a 4-year research project (2022-26) that draws on and furthers the reach and impact of the initial project.
Dr Bronwyn Harris is an Associate Professor in Public Health within the Warwick Medical School. She previously worked in the Centre for Health Policy, Wits University, South Africa. Bronwyn’s research focuses on how technology can bring quality care to those who need it, regardless of who they are, where they live or their ability to pay. Alongside Professor Frances Griffiths, Bronwyn is Warwick Co-Investigator on the Remote Consulting in Primary Healthcare (REaCH) training programme, with King’s College London, and seven institutions in sub-Saharan Africa (funded by UKRI, Global Health Partnerships, NIHR). REaCH training enables health workers in sub-Saharan Africa to confidently deliver healthcare to their patients using mobile phones, and to integrate this digital delivery with their existing health care system and cascade training to other health workers. REaCH initially involved undertaking trials in Nigeria and Tanzania, with the programme since benefitting healthcare practitioners, patients and decision-makers in several sub-Saharan countries, including Ghana and Ethiopia.
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Deputy Chair (Research) of the Faculty of Arts. Her research focuses on art and the legacies of state violence in Spain and Latin America. She works closely with the international migrant theatre group Ephemeral Ensemble on physical theatre approaches to social justice and to working with global majority communities. Their award-winning play REWIND has toured widely in the UK and Latin America, and was named one of the top 10 UK theatre shows of 2024. Alison and Ephemeral have also collaborated with theatre professionals in Colombia and Argentina, developing the co-production Kauka with La Máscara Theatre in Cali.
