Accelerating Impact: How Your Research Can Make A Difference

Friday 25 May 2018, 12.15pm onwards

The University is hosting an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account showcase event from 12:15pm on Friday 25 May 2018, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Accelerating Impact: How Your Research Can Make A Difference. This free half-day event aims to enhance understanding of what it means to generate impact from research, beyond academia, and to provide inspiration through the showcasing of projects that have been funded by the University’s EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account over the last five years.

During the event, the EPSRC’s Impact Manager, Dr Chris Gibson, will highlight why research impact is strategically important to EPSRC. Attendees will also have the opportunity to pose their own questions to, and to discuss research impact with, a panel of senior academics with experience of creating impact from their research, and the EPSRC. Representatives from Research Services, Oxford University Innovation, and the MPLS Industrial Research Partnerships team, among others, will be available to provide advice and guidance on impact funding opportunities and how to work with external non-academic organisations.

The conference is for researchers at all career stages, and the professional colleagues who support them. Attendance by Early Career Researchers, including DPhil students, is particularly welcome.

The draft programme is below, and the full programme will be available shortly at: www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/impactconference. To register to attend please visit: https://oxfordimpactconference.eventbrite.co.uk. Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. This event is provided on a zero-cost basis to attendees, thanks to the generous support of the University of Oxford’s EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please direct any queries to epsrciaa@mpls.ox.ac.uk.

Draft Programme