Celebrating our LBU Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange

Professor Silke Machold, Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at LBU delivered a session on research integrity - what this is, why it is so important, and an overview of what we are doing here at LBU to support colleagues, including becoming signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Our Knowledge Exchange team presented a session on collaboration, partnerships and policy work - including an introduction to the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF), the Knowledge Exchange business hub and our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme.

Day two began with a presentation from the Social Communications agency, with colleagues. The team shared insight from a collaborative project which has led to the creation of three core research themes:

• Greener and Sustainable Communities
• Sport and Healthy Communities
• Inclusive and Prosperous Communities

These show how we are responding to the big global challenges we are facing, and how we are doing things differently through our communities, co-production, inclusion and impact approach.

The team shared insight to help us shape the stories of our university's research and knowledge exchange activities. A bank of tools and resources will soon be available to all colleagues - including case studies and stories from across our schools and interdisciplinary areas, which will bring to life the impact that our research and knowledge exchange is having and show our key messages in action.

We then heard from three academic colleagues at LBU to represent each research theme: Professor Persephone Sextou, Professor Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo and Dr Jim Parker. The varied and impactful research spanned bringing theatre and arts to children's hospital wards, working with the UN Convention on Cybercrime, and the policy-informing work of the Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI).

In the afternoon, we celebrated our first Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards event. Colleagues and postgraduate research students gathered to learn more about the fantastic work taking place across the University and celebrate our outstanding winners and nominees. You can read more about the work and achievements of our Awards nominees on our Research and Enterprise blog.

Congratulations to our winners and runners-up:

Building Partnerships and Networks Award

Winner: The TaCKLE Team - Carnegie School of Sport
Runner-up: Dr Liam McCarthy - Carnegie School of Sport

Developing a Research Community Award

Winner: Dr Emily Hart - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Runner-up: School of Health Postgraduate Research Tutors, Dr Louise Warwick-Booth and Dr Angela Oates

Local Champion Award

Winner: Professor Shane Ewen - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Runner-up: The Centre for Health Promotion Research, led by Professor Anne-Marie Bagnall

Open Research Award

Winner: Dr Adele Senior - Leeds School of Arts
Runner-up: The Library Research Services team

Research and Knowledge Exchange Professional Award

Winner: Lex Riley - Research and Enterprise Services
Runner-up: Georgi Sinclair - Centre for Learning and Teaching

Teaching Impact Award

Winner: Dr Louise Warwick-Booth - School of Health
Runner-up: Developing Students’ Employability Skills in Higher Education project

Postgraduate Research Student Photo Competition

Winner: Sharon Bhorkar - Beyond the Surface: Is This Just a Façade Treatment?
Second prize winner: Noor Alawi - Green Building in Action
Third prize winner: Tahira Hamid - Layered Complexity: A PhD Journey Through Inclusive Urban Transit Design

For more information, toolkits and resources around any of these topics, please contact the Research and Enterprise team - RE@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.