These should always be planned with your beneficiaries (partners, collaborators, users or audiences) in mind. For more advice read the KEI Guide or get in touch with us.
- Conferences (with at least some non‑academic delegates)
- Events, talks, debates or workshops
- Media appearance/ coverage
- Media consultancy
- Media production
- Production of (or contribution to) project website within or beyond LSE
- Use of online or social media e.g. writing blog posts or tweeting about research
- Collaborative organisation of event(s)
- Contribution to exhibition(s)
- Development of joint funding proposals
- Editorial role for non‑academic publications
- Participation in a research collaboration, network or consortium
- Secondments, placements and visits into or out of LSE
- Creation of a research community – helps engage (non‑academic) participants with research
- Involvement or employment of local people in research projects
- Joint academia‑industry appointments
- Joint publications with non‑academic partners
- Non‑academic input to research (e.g. by steering group or external evaluators)
- Publication in practitioner journals
- Commissioned research
- Consultancy (paid or unpaid)
- Demonstration of prototype or new material(s)
- Formal or informal networking and discussion
- Membership of expert group(s)
- Production of policy papers, guidance
- Production of reports
- Talks, workshops and other events for specialist audiences
- Transfer of skilled people (including e.g. student placements in external organisations)
- Production of mediated and/or bespoke outputs
- Collaborative, participatory or action research methodology which engages subjects / participants with research and its findings; may offer immediate access to benefits as result
- Mentoring
- Outreach / widening participation activity
- Provision of CPD or other training
- Provision of publically‑available online information or engagement resources
- Sustained engagement with a community or group
- Provision of teaching or teaching materials for audiences outside LSE
- Contribution to curriculum design
- Contribution to or provision of evidence (e.g. to select committees)
- Formal advisory role
- Provision of data to inform development of new or modified guidelines
- Artistic collaboration
- (Contribution to) set up of new service
- (Contribution to) set up of spin outs, including social enterprises
- Invited provision of expert advice to inform practice
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- Licensing and patenting
- Practice– or design‑based research (e.g. design of buildings, spaces; production of art or music)
- Production of prototypes, tool kits, beta software etc. for use beyond academia
- Proof of Concept projects
- Provision of new materials or products based on research
- Provision of new methodologies, frameworks or techniques for use beyond academia
- Research fed directly into clinical practice (e.g. via clinical trialling)