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Otherwise Engaged : Know your KT Landscape Kate Beckmann Annabel Cooper. The Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) Project www.urbansustainabilityexchange.org.uk. Who are we. Deputy Director. In-house Journalist. Sustainable Urban Environments
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Otherwise Engaged : Know your KT Landscape Kate Beckmann Annabel Cooper The Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) Project www.urbansustainabilityexchange.org.uk
Who are we Deputy Director In-house Journalist
Sustainable Urban Environments Research programme Metrics, Knowledge Management and Decision Making Waste, Water and Land management projects Urban and Built Environment projects Transport projects • - 18 Research Consortia • - £38 Million Research • 400 Researchers from 30 different UK Universities • ISSUES - Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) Project
Warm Up Exercise (SHOW OF HANDS PLEASE) • Have you identified end-user audiences for your research?
Warm Up Exercise (SHOW OF HANDS PLEASE) • Have you done any work to find out what your end users might want?
Warm Up Exercise (SHOW OF HANDS PLEASE) • Have you done any work to find out how your end users update their knowledge & working practice?
Impact and Success • Success and Impact from the stakeholder side • PRODUCT How is your product (findings/tools/information) going to help me do my job ? • ACCESSIBILITY Can I find it easily, and is it easy to find, understand and use? • ADAPTABLE? Is it fit for purpose / fit for my purposes? And how adaptable is it? • TIMING How are you going to answer my needs / help me in time / at the right time? • TESTING & RISK How well has this been tested in real-life situations? Are there risks in using it? What are the perceptions of the risks in using this new product /info? • KEEPING ABREAST Do you understand and keep abreast of the drivers, constraints and wider context of my work so you understand what I will need next? • FRAMEWORK- LEGISLATION Will this influence / change the legislation and regulation that shapes my work? • CUSTOMERS CLIENTS & STAKEHOLDERS - Will this influence / change what my customers / clients / stakeholders want and specify?
Timing – Stakeholder Timescales... “When you come up against a problem / research need, within what sort of timescale do you need information or solutions?” ‘3-9 months’ DfT/DEFRA/CLG DEFRA researcher ‘7 minutes’ CLG Policy Advisor ‘3 minutes’
Exercise One You get into a lift with Nick Clegg. You have 40 seconds to ‘sell’ your research concept before he gets out. 40 secs
KE Landscape Websites Email bulletins Personal contacts
Web-centric activity • End-users cite web-based information as their most frequently used means of keeping abreast of developments in their field • But - websites and e-bulletins need to be known and respected by end-users and their professional groups • Information needs to be in a “punchier format” • How easy is it to find information about the research you’re doing on your university’s website?
Print-centric activity • Each profession has its preferred professional and trade publications • End-users very rarely go direct to academic journals. They report there are many barriers and that they are too expensive • Only “once in a Blue Moon” will a journal article be really useful to an end-user
People-centric activity • End users cite ‘word of mouth’, meetings and colleagues as common sources of new information • Events: “hard to justify attendance unless there’s an opportunity to provide input or get access to somebody you wouldn’t normally meet” • Information on practical experience / practical knowledge is valued
Otherwise Engaged : Know your KT Landscape Kate Beckmann Annabel Cooper www.urbansustainability.org.uk