Impact Workshop: “Be the Magpie” – postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly

postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly

CASSCS colleagues are warmly invited to attend a workshop on research impact by Dr Mark Mann (University of Oxford)

WORSKHOP: “Be the Magpie”

Limited to 15 places. Registration required – please email patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie to participate

In order to successfully spot potential transfer projects, staff and academics will be introduced, through examples that they will work on, to look for the following factors:

• Solving a problem:

o             Does the research output solve a problem for someone or something?

• External influence:

O                             What are the factors that are outside the research group for which a research project might be relevant? This will include

            University priorities

            Funders and other key organisations

            Local and National Government priorities

            International Priorities

We will then look at the key elements that make a successful transfer possible. This will include:

• Academic and university reputation
• External participants already being worked with
• Value created or that could be created in the future; intellectual property types and what to do with them.
• The motivation of key people that will be needed to make things happen.

Academics will be invited to pair up with each other or with a research manager (depending on the balance of numbers) to look at their own research in turn to see where they fit in. To do this they will be introduced to a methodology, KT3, which is a framework which will enable to them to work out where the opportunity exists in a systematic way.

The session will be designed with fun at its core, but also aims to provide as much practical knowledge to be taken away and applied as possible. The workshop will last 90 minutes. There will, however, be the option to either extend the workshop for a further 30 minutes, or use those last 30 minutes to answer any further questions anyone may have.

MARK MANN LIMITED

Mark Mann Limited and its sister company Mark Mann OÜ were founded in 2021 to provide strategic innovation services to technology transfer offices, corporations and institutions across the UK and Europe wishing to expand and diversify their impact offering. The clients of these companies have so far include (selected by relevance for this project):

• The University of Bristol
• The University of York
• Swansea University
• The University of Surrey
• Charles University, Prague
• Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Ploughshare Innovations Limited
• Lancaster University
• The University of Leicester
• University College London
• Cardiff University
• PraxisAuril

Dr Mark Mann

Its founder, Dr Mark Mann, developed a reputation for being a leader in the field whilst working at the University of Oxford. As well as providing advice to institutions large and small in innovation strategy, he also develops and provides training to technology transfer professionals in the latest techniques in the field, particularly in the fields of humanities, arts, social sciences, software and social enterprise.

He gained his reputation at the University of Oxford where he:

• Created 13 spinouts across the breadth of Oxford University’s research portfolio.
• Created Oxford’s first spinout in Silicon Valley. The spinout’s already been sold, justifying the approach taken.
• Vastly accelerated Oxford’s Humanities and Social Sciences pipeline by developing new template spinout models.
• Developed templates for Oxford’s new social venture spinouts.
• Developed a new framework for impact measurement.
• Created a collaboration of 12 universities, Impact 12, which work together to pool resources and raise social investment together to build social venture infrastructure outside of London.

Chris Fellingham

Chris is the co-founder and Director of the ARC Accelerator, the world’s first accelerator for social science and Humanities researchers. Chris is also the Social Science and Humanities Lead at Oxford University Innovation and prior to this worked as Strategy Manager at edtech startup FutureLearn.