Financial Statements 2017/18
Knowledge exchange
We have made good progress towards our commitment to grow knowledge exchange between 2% and 4% as highlighted in our five year strategic plan (2017-2022). By using knowledge exchange to underpin a range of courses, we’re hoping to attract more students, and increase their employment prospects upon graduating. We continue to have a real-world impact through our work despite facing challenges where many of our clients operate in a low growth economy under great uncertainty.
This year, we have worked on over 100 projects – both large and small and across faculties – as a result of competitive tendering, grant funding and commissioned work. In addition, we continue to get revenue from many knowledge exchange projects in Continued Professional Development (CPD), contract and collaborative research and in regional regeneration. We have a healthy mix of short term and long lived projects of varying sizes, which makes us sufficiently confident that we can weather a period of low growth and austerity.
Current knowledge transfer projects
From human rights to nanoparticle imaging, our knowledge transfer projects are wide-ranging in the areas they cover. New work this year included training led by Dr Venetia Brown for Health and Education England on the General Practice Nursing Continued Professional Development update series, contract research at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) supporting human rights in Ukraine, and a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Gluru, a company that develops a machine learning platform for mobile users. Dr Marcus O’Dair’s new project is funded by the Tapscott Foundation and focuses on copyright and rights management in the Blockchain Era, while Dr Elana Martellozza undertook commissioned research work on child sexual abuse typology development to support better interventions, tracking and management.
New strategic partnerships
This year we have seen growth in the number of partnerships – both public and private organisations - with relationships being strengthened across the UK and beyond. For instance, we have begun work in gamification led by Professor Juan Augusto and the evaluation of health status benefits of leisure participation led by Dr Carmen Aceijas in partnership with Greenwich Leisure Services Ltd. We also anticipate the development of more partnerships building on similar approaches from past years in healthcare, social work and mental health.
Impact beyond campus
More than ever before, universities are being asked to show their research has a wider impact. We continue to produce direct benefits to society through our knowledge exchange projects. Examples of this include the implementation and evaluation of the Q Pack self-report questionnaires for children in care, the development of a midwifery mentorship course for Barking; Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and contract research for the Jewish Leadership Council.
Many of our projects result in material that’s available publically. For example, our knowledge transfer work on suicide by Dr Lisa Marzano produced a website allowing those with suicidal thoughts to record them for use in research (
www.thequeststudy.org/). This important piece of work was commissioned by Samaritans and involved researchers at both Middlesex and Westminster, who collected anonymised verbatim accounts with the aim of finding ways to reduce and prevent suicide attempts. Our research can often produce patentable or otherwise exploitable intellectual property. We recorded several new patent filings this year including one on nanoparticle imaging intended to build on an evolving capability to combine scanning and imaging modalities with nanoparticles for better, lower cost and non-invasive medical imaging. This was developed with Professor Bayford and partners at University College London.
We also developed our ‘knowledge building community’, which allows practitioner-learners to share insights into practice development and effectively generate their own CPD. This novel approach to professional development funded by Health Education England through My Care Academy is a vital area of healthcare where practitioners are able to sharpen their skills in a virtual classroom.
Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF)
Other important developments this year include the recently formed Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee’s (RKEC) preparation for the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF). Similar to the Research Excellence Framework and the Teaching Excellence Framework, KEF will serve as a requirement for universities to frame perceptions of their comparative performances. The KEF will require real-time reporting of knowledge exchange transactions, more transparency on classifications of types of knowledge exchange, and a recognition that different institutions should be allowed to play to different strengths.
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