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ESRC Impact Acceleration Account

Introducing the ESRC IAA at Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ

The ESRC IAA at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà helps to maximise the societal and economic impact of social science research by facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing with external partners. The scheme supports the translation of research findings into practical applications, policy recommendations and commercial opportunities.

Funding available
guidelines
Rapid Impact (open)
Up to ?1k for spontaneous opportunities
Leading Impact (Closed)
Up to ?15k for social science impact initiatives
CRoSS+ (Closed)
Up to ?10k for commercialisation projects
Partnerships (Closed)
Up to ?5k for non-academic partnerships
Placing People (Closed)
Up to ?5k for fellowships and practitioner appointments
Impact Content and Events (open)
Up to ?1k for impact content and events
Projects we have supported
  • Rapid Impact
    Name School Project title Project summary
    Rebecca Loader SSESW Reductions in Education Funding - Rapid Response
    Emma Campbell NBE Running a EU 'Clever Cities' conference session on co-design
    Nichola Booth SSESW Autism in the Air
    Shane Brighton HAPP Talking to Americans about Northern Ireland: an Historical Briefing to British Diplomats in Washington
    Laura Dunne SSESW Attendance at UN General Assembly event
    Marek Martyniszyn Law Engagement with the European Court of Justice

     

  • Leading Impact
    Name School Project title Project summary
    Yecid Ortega SSESW Improving community relations through understanding historic, linguistic and cultural identities
    Christine Brown Wilson Nursing & Midwifery The Codesign of a Chinese Dementia Awareness Game
    Denise Currie and Heike Schroder QMS Evidence-based Wellbeing Strategies for the Health and Social Care Workforce (NI): Informing Human Resource Strategy and Practice
    Emma Reisz HAPP Participant auto-Ethnography Around Colonialism and Empire (PEACE) / working title: MMMV2
    Katerina Dounavi SSESW Acting on early life autism signs (Act-ELAS)
    Cheryl Lawther Law Trend Indicator Toolkit for Dealing with Online Extremism
    Pratyush Nath Upreti Law The Role of Geographical Indications in Promoting Rural Development in Nepal
    Ruth Hunter MDBS There is no Planet B: The importance of protecting where we live
    Tess Maginess SSESW Translating Age: Exploring attitudes to and experiences of ageing among older migrant women in Northern Ireland and Canada
    Katrina McLaughlin Psychology Development of Domestic Abuse Training for Nursing and Midwifery Students
    Mandi McDonald SSESW Amplifying care-experienced voices through participatory arts
    Maria Cockerill SSESW Reciprocal Maths – A Train the trainer model for Latin America: Phase 2
    Martina Galeotti Nursing & Midwifery Development of a pocket guide for health professionals to support women and their partners during 
    miscarriage
    Nichola Booth SSESW CatVR
    Gemma Catney NBE Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI) Census Data Dashboard
    Gerry Marshall SSESW Changing the way we train social workers: Immersive Technology in Post-Qualifying Social Work 
    Settings
    Julie Viebach SSESW Can the record be trusted? Prospects and Challenges of Human Rights Documentation and Archiving 
    in the Digital Age

     

  • CROSS+
    Name School Project title Project summary
    Paulina Wilson Law Comparative law challenges in cross-border/multilingual law practice
  • Partnerships
    Name School Project title Project summary
    Amy Jayne McKnight MDBS Extending RARDTAC, REDRESS-Rare, and RAiN rare disease networks to enhance impact from social science research
    Edwar Calderon NBE Long-Live Diversity: Good Relations among young groups in Mid Ulster
    Estelle Lowry NBE Engaging the rural community with social isolation data from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study
    Maria Cockerill SSESW Carry on Reading! Building partnerships with non-academic audience to enable children from firestricken areas to read with peers.
    Mel Engman SSESW Scaffolding Community Bilingualism (SCB)
  • Placing People
    Name School Project title Project summary
    Liam O'Hare SSESW Innovation Zones ‘Conversations’ project secondment
    Lee Kane Voice of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) Our Data, Our Research, Our Future
    Chiara Magliacane Eyrados Edu-Larp Lab 2024: An educational tool involving performances and politics 
    Savannah Dodd Photography Ethics Centre Learning from experience: A toolkit for ethical practice in photography

STRIDE Consultancy

STRIDE is a consultancy firm based at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Belfast, specialising in social impact programmes that work. It was supported through the CROSS strand.

Reducing Opioid Related Deaths

This project sought to reduce opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of death from overdose on release from prison. It was supported through the Leading Impact strand.

For more information and support please contact esrciaa@qub.ac.uk

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Explore Further

UKRI Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) are strategic awards that offer funding to research organisations for a wide range of impact-driven activities. These awards allow research organisations to respond flexibly, responsively, and creatively to various opportunities for creating impact. There are 32 organisations across the UK with ESRC IAAs.