Impact Acceleration Funded projects 2014-2016
David Clark (£10,000)
"Imminence of death among people in hospital - taking research findings to engage policy and practice."
Project to develop, design and promote a set of infographics to summarise the findings of an ongoing set of studies on ‘imminence of death’ among hospital patients, and to organise a policy seminar in Scotland for clinical leaders, managers and key policy makers to examine the implications of the results.
Fergus McNeill (£10,000)
"Distant Voices 2 (DV2)."
To consolidate and enhance the learning from the (KE Fund funded) Distant Voices 1 (DV1) pilot project about the use of creative practices and processes in co-producing cultural forms of knowledge exchange.
Jillian Gordon (£4,620)
“Understanding loan aversion amongst social enterprises.”
Support the partner organisation Social Investment Scotland (SIS) to diagnose challenges around user engagement during the pre-social investment stage through applying existing academic knowledge and expertise from the commercial and philanthropic investment sectors to social investment.
Sarah Craig (£2,000)
"Immigration and asylum law and practice: Releasing expertise, sharing knowledge and realising rights."
Project to provide a forum where academics and practitioners can develop joint work on specific topics, by applying a proven model for collaboration among people who work in different disciplines and who share the aim of promoting the practical protection of rights in immigration and asylum law.
Mo Hume (£6,895)
"Preventing Gender Violence: Lessons on impact from Central America."
Project aim to develop a set of tools for evaluating and enhancing the impact of research on gender violence in Central America.
Annette Hastings (£2,100)
"Serving Deprived Communities - "how to guide"."
To produce a How To guide for councils in England and Scotland which will allow any council to replicate our analysis of the impact of budget cuts on poor people and places by using the innovative analytical framework we devised as part of the project.
Cian O'Driscoll (£10,000)
"Moral Victories: ethics, exit Strategies and the ending of wars."
Project enhanced the impact of a high quality body of research that will contribute to the academic literature on the ethics of ending violent conflicts while developing a platform for evidence-based policy-making in an area of acute importance for the national defence and security sector.
Sayantan Ghosal (£8,950)
"Using economics and psychology to inform the design of pro-poor policies in India."
To engage with institutions and policy-processes in India in order to build in an element of empowerment (e.g. by raising aspirations and agency) in the design of pro-poor policies aimed at women and children belonging to poor marginalised communities.
Sarah Birch (£9,629)
"Electoral Violence Intervention Impact Workshops."
To bring key practitioners in the field of electoral violence mitigation together with researchers on the ESRC-funded Project on Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence (PEMEV).
Ammon Cheskin (£3,450)
"Russian speakers in the post-Soviet space: policy engagement."
Project involved direct dissemination and knowledge exchange of existing and ongoing research to key policy-makers in the post-Soviet space: Informing policy-makers about how and why Russian speakers orient themselves towards Russia and towards their state of residence.
David Smith (£6,634)
“Building Unity in Diversity in Ukraine: The Potential for Non-territorial Cultural Autonomy as an Institutional Framework .”
Preparation of policy discussion papers with a range of relevant user communities on the framing of minority rights debates in Ukraine and the formulation of law and policy in this area.
Annette Hastings (£7,030)
"Maximising the impact of the counting the costs of the cuts ""How to"" guide."
To maximise the use of an innovative interactive ‘How to’ toolkit which enables local authorities to analyse the differential impact of their budget and service savings plans on service users across the socio-economic spectrum.
Kelly Kollman (£4,700)
"Borderless politics: Corporate political engagement in multiple arenas."
To utilize knowledge gained from our ESRC-funded research on the logic of corporate political action to influence relevant areas of policy debate and practice: (1) emergent best corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice among transnational corporations (2) effectiveness of national / international CSR standards (3) corporate lobbying transparency and lobby registers.
Kristinn Hermannsson (£6,900)
"Education and International Development: Decision making based on Economic Models and the post-MDG agenda."
Project expedited the formulation of policy lessons from new research evidence and sought feedback from non-academic stakeholders on what aspects of the findings to prioritise when refining the analysis subsequently.
David Featherstone (£8,680)
"Workplace and Community Organising Cultures of Glasgow: Multimedia Online Platform."
Project made a major contribution to public understanding of the activity of community and workplace organising cultures in Glasgow in the post-war period. It brought together key stakeholders to co-produce a knowledge exchange platform that disseminates and engages the public and practitioners with work on community and workplace organising.
Alison Phipps (£9,945)
"On the Run."
Project provided theatre audience members and participants, including asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers, with safe spaces for learning, reflection and dialogue.
Iain Docherty (£10,000)
"Forth Road Bridge Project."
Project was an extensive survey of travel behaviour during the closure of the Forth Road Bridge in December 2015, focusing on commuters but also incorporating a smaller survey of businesses affected by the disruption.
Fergus McNeill (£11,945)
"Mass Supervision: Seen and Heard."
This project enhanced and secured the impact of EU COST Action IS1106 Offender Supervision in Europe through targeted dissemination.
Theodore Koutmeridis (£10,000)
"Supplying Copyright Evidence to Media, Policy and Industry."
Project funded placements to interact with policy experts and inform them about the latest findings in a contested and rapidly changing area of copyright.
Deirdre Shaw (£3,000)
"Enabling the Glasgow Food Policy Partnership (GFPP)."
Project mapped the network to help the GFPP develop a clear and consistent portrayal of network elements. This is critical in revealing key actors, (non) relationships and building further our understanding of the emerging network that is essential to progress the outcomes from the research.