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1. To communicate, support and assess engagement and impact activities within the School.
2. To minimize the transaction costs for academics seeking to engage with non-academic users.
3. To embed engagement (or knowledge exchange) and impact into the full life cycle of research for all academics.
4. To extend these activities to a wider range of academic colleagues (and therefore the take-up of related funding).
5. To advise on the most effective activities and on activities proven to have the greatest impacts.

Communications

• Advice on effective engagement and comms plans
• Central research dissemination and engagement initiatives e.g. LSE Festival, Research for the World magazine and LSE IQ podcast
• Media relations
• Events
• Social media
• LSE Blogs
• Video, podcasts and film-making
• Public affairs and government relations.
• Digital engagement, website development and apps
• Design (eg reports, executive summaries) and brand identities (for web, social media, print, PowerPoint etc)

Research and Innovation

• Advice on funding
• Grant writing, including impact statements
• Advice on potential impact case studies for the REF and impact more broadly
• Advice/support on collection of impact corroborating evidence
• Academic consulting
• Commercialisation of research
• Entrepreneurship

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• Business partnerships
• Funding and sponsorship
• Corporate engagement

LSE Library

• Maximising the visibility of academic research
• Data management
• Managing funding streams to support open access
• LSE Press (open access publishing)

Plus training through PhD Academy, HR and LSE Careers.