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Student engagement in knowledge exchange: a policy perspective
@officestudents@ResEngland
OfS and Research England
Friends House, London22 October 2019
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Hamish McAlpineHead of Data & Evidence,Research England
@officestudents@ResEngland
OfS and Research England
Friends House, London22 October 2019
Welcome & Housekeeping
Background and context 11:00-11:30
What we are seeking from the projects
11:30-11:45
Process 11:45-12:00OfS/RE available to discuss initial ideas with bidders
12:00-12:45
Lunch 12:45-13:30Networking 13:30-14:15
Who are Research England?
Who are Research England?Quality-related Research (QR)£1,540m
HE ResearchCapital (HERC) England£87m
HEI ResearchCapital£116m
UK Research Partnership Investment Fund£133m
Higher Education Innovation Funding£210m
(of which £47m via DfE)
Other funding£29m
CCF£25m
QR uplift£20m
Global Challenges Research Fund£55m
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Why is KE important?
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How is HEIF spent?
Infrastructure Category 2017-18 Expenditure (£m)
Facilitating research exploitation 83.5Commercialisation (technology transfer) 33.7Skills and human capital development 25.7Knowledge sharing and diffusion 23.6Public engagement 13.6Enterprise and entrepreneurship 20.2Exploiting the HEI’s physical assets 9.6
What’s the impact?
Does this tell us anything about student involvement or benefit?
Infrastructure Category 2017-18 Expenditure (£m)
Facilitating research exploitation 83.5Commercialisation (technology transfer) 33.7Skills and human capital development 25.7Knowledge sharing and diffusion 23.6Public engagement 13.6Enterprise and entrepreneurship 20.2Exploiting the HEI’s physical assets 9.6
Does this tell us anything about student involvement or benefit?
What do we know about student-involved or informed KE?
What do we know about student-involved or informed KE?
• HEIF supplemental plans, July 2018:
Q3 Related to main and supplementary (if applicable) allocations:
• How are you using funds to support the teaching and student related aspects of KE?
• Please highlight where these activities support the priorities set out in the Industrial Strategy White Paper, particularly the People chapter.
What do we know about student-involved or informed KE?
• Making Connections (networking, events etc)• Staff support (recruiting and investing in staff to
support teaching-related KE)• Student Enterprise • Furthering Equality (protected characteristics,
regional)• Businesses on campus (jobs fairs, industry-led
curriculum development, business-led assessment)
• Students off campus (internships, placements)• STEM-specific support
What don’t we know about student-involved or informed KE?
• We know more about the what than the how
• What works? What doesn’t? What does good practice look like?
• Are all students involved (and benefitting) equally?
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Brooke Storer-ChurchSkills and Employability ManagerOffice for Students
@officestudents@ResEngland
OfS and Research England
Friends House, London22 October 2019
How did we get here, 1
• HEIF budget split between BEIS and DfE with the creation of Research England and Office for Students
• £47 million provided by DfE, which wants assurances about the ‘student and teaching-related benefits’ enabled by that money
• RSM Ltd analysed responses to HEIF supplementary questions and broader returns
• Tomas Coates-Ulrichsen considered how RSM results and existing HEIF/KE frameworks could answer the questions about student and teaching related benefits
How did we get here, 2
• RSM + TCU research conclusions: existing measurements/mechanisms make it hard to identify students engagement in/benefits from KE activities
• With RE, OfS has been considering steps we can take to improve that identification and our understanding of students’ KE activities
• Happening alongside:• HE-BCI review• HEIF review• KEF roll-out
Intentions of the call:
• To gather examples of the myriad ways students are engaging in KE across the sector
• To gather evidence of the benefits students gain from engaging in a range of KE activities, and the ways in which partners are benefited by students’ engagement
• To gather examples of effective practice for student engagement in KE: what works, what doesn’t and why
• To expand our understanding of KE activities and the ways KE works across institutions and external partners
Student engagement in KE funding competition
What would a better understanding allow us to do?
• Make the SR case for continued funding
• Inform what information we collect about HEIF spending via annual monitoring and the HEIF accountability process
• Provide evidence for the HE-BCI review
• Inform future iterations of the KEF
• Inform review of the current HEIF method
Thank you for listening
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