The integrated Knowledge Exchange and Impact (KEI) service brings together teams from across the school, enabling academics to gain seamless support for their engagement and impact activities. It also proactively encourages academics to undertake impact activities in line with LSE's Research for the World strategy.
- To communicate, support and assess engagement and impact activities within the School.
- To minimize the transaction costs for academics seeking to engage with non-academic users.
- To embed engagement (or knowledge exchange) and impact into the full life cycle of research for all academics.
- To extend these activities to a wider range of academic colleagues (and therefore the take-up of related funding).
- 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
PAGE
- 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.
Contact Us
We are here to help, get in touch! Contact us at research.kei@lse.ac.uk.
Academic Director of Impact: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe
Associate Director of Innovation and Impact: Rachel Middlemass
Head of Research Communications and Engagement: Louise Jones
Research Impact Manager: Kieran Booluck
Impact Support Manager: Catherine Ulmer
Knowledge Exchange Support Manager: Rosemary Deller
Impact Monitoring Manager: Nick Ansell
KEI Funding Manager: Nazifa Ahmed