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Leeds-HKU Conference: Moving Beyond Research to Engagement and Impact

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Day 1 (Friday, April 17, 2015)

MORNING

Time

Session

Speaker/Panelist

09:30 – 10:00

Registration

10:00

Video showcase at Foyer outside Wang Gungwu Theatre

10:15 – 10:30

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Address:
Professor Paul K. H. Tam
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Hong Kong

Opening Address:
Professor Frank Finlay
Dean of Arts, University of Leeds

 

10:30 – 12:30

 

Session 1:
Innovative Knowledge Engagement and Sustainable Partnerships

How to continue moving on in a meaningful way and meeting the challenges in community-university partnerships? How to handle relationship and expectation management in a partnership amidst changing priorities on both sides? Any engagement models proven to be working? 

Chairperson:
Professor John Bacon-Shone
Associate Director, Knowledge Exchange Office, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Capacity Enhancement Through Collaboration: Partnership Projects of ExCEL3
Professor Cecilia L. W. Chan
Head, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU

Creative Collaborations: Effective Engagement with Partner Organisations
Dr Laura King
Arts Engaged Research Fellow, School of History, University of Leeds

The University as Life Sciences Ecosystem Orchestrator: A Nanomedicine Case Study
Professor Amy Shuen
Professor of Management Practice,
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Ways in Which to Impact Law and Policy in Hong Kong
Professor Simon N. M. Young
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, HKU

AFTERNOON

14:30 – 16:30

 

Session 2:
Articulating and Corroborating Research Impact

How can you tell your research has made a difference on society? What kinds of evidence are useful to corroborate impact? What if you work in those areas where corroboration of impact seems vague or difficult, such as public policy and influence on cultural change, or if you use social media to engage the public?

Chairperson:
Professor Paul Y. S. Cheung
Associate Vice-President (Research); Director of Technology Transfer Office, HKU

Three Different Forms of Impact in Engineering
Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung
Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering,Imperial College London

From Corroborating Impact to Evaluating Research
Professor Paul Cooke
Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds

The Price of Impact – What Do You Want from Your Technology Transfer Office?
Mr Tom Hockaday
Managing Director, Isis Innovation Ltd, University of Oxford

Measuring the Benefits of Academic Research
Professor Denise Lievesley
Professor of Social Statistics and Dean of Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee break and video showcase

17:00 – 18:00

 

Session 3:
Impact Case Studies as Food for Thought in Shaping the Faculty or Institutional Impact Agenda

How can we learn from case studies whilst recognising the unique nature of particular projects? Should we try to replicate case studies – or is it better to design each project on its own terms?

Should a strategy on impact be derived from examples of good practice, or through a top-down strategy around impact?

Chairperson:
Professor Larry D. Qiu
Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange), Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU 

Panel Discussion:

Professor Claire Honess
Professor of Italian Studies, and Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds

Dr Alex Bamji
Lecturer in Early Modern History, School of History, University of Leeds

Professor Christopher Webster
Dean of Architecture, HKU

18:00

Conference adjourns for Day 2

 

Day 2 (Saturday, April 18, 2015)

Time

Session

Speaker/Panelist

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30

 

Session 4:
Evaluating Impact of Research Beyond Academia

Evaluating engagement or impact, or impact of engagement? What works and how assessment models can help shape an institutional impact strategy?

Chairperson:
Professor Paul K. H. Tam
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), HKU

Evaluating Research Impact in the Biomedical & Life Sciences: Experiences from the UK’s REF2014
Professor Ole Petersen
Director of Biosciences, Cardiff University; Chairman of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Sub-panel 5: Biological Sciences

Evaluating Impact in the Arts and Humanities
Dr Matthew Boswell
Arts Engaged Research Fellow, School of English, University of Leeds

Assessing Impact: The Experiences of a REF2014 Sub-Panel Chairman
Professor Stephen Williamson
Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey; Chairman of the UK REF 2014 Sub-panel 13: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break and video showcase

11:00 – 12:00

 

Session 5:
Addressing the Unlikely Disciplines in Knowledge Exchange

Is it a myth or reality that KE is not relevant to some disciplines? How to overcome barriers from apathy to open hostility? How to engage more researchers in those disciplines in public engagement and involve them in the discourse of impact?

Chairperson:
Professor John Bacon-Shone
Associate Director, Knowledge Exchange Office, HKU

Addressing the Unlikely Disciplines in Knowledge Exchange
Professor Christopher Megone
Director of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, University of Leeds

Panel Discussion:

Professor Samuel M. Y. Ho
Associate Head, Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Professor Christopher Megone
Director of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, University of Leeds

Dr Jason C. S. Pun
Principal Lecturer, Department of Physics, HKU

12:00 – 12:30

 

Closing Session:
What Next for Knowledge Exchange?

From being a natural consequence of research to public engagement, impact strategy, and evolving to become an engaged university? How can institutionsenergise themselves in this journey and beyond the earmarked funding?

Chairperson:
Professor Douglas Kerr
Dean of Arts, HKU

'Flattened by a Runaway Tank ...'?  Impact and the Arts and Humanities
Professor Frank Finlay
Dean of Arts, University of Leeds; Member of the UK REF 2014 Sub-panel 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics

12:30

End of programme

Programmes are subject to change without prior notice.