Institutional Context
Summary
As a longstanding, actively engaged civic institution, and as an engine of innovation, the University of Hull benefits its place while also tackling global challenges. The University collaborates extensively with partners, connecting its work with business, health, communities, the third sector, and government, for mutual learning, growth and benefit.
Alongside its partners and communities, the University has identified, refined and enthusiastically pursued strategic foci that:
Harness the region’s distinctive assets, skills, attributes and traditions;
Support enduring and unique relationships with partners; and
Draw on its world-class expertise.
This strategic approach has helped the region to take a leading role in tackling some enduring global challenges as well as addressing the Industrial Strategy priorities and the national ‘levelling up’ agenda.
Institutional context
Founded in 1927 the University of Hull is England’s 14th oldest university. Its Royal Charter enshrines the centrality of translating knowledge to practical use by advancing education, scholarship, knowledge and understanding for the benefit of individuals and society.
The University of Hull is the only university headquartered in the Humber region. As an actively engaged civic university it tackles global challenges and aligns its activities to regional priorities, using its national and international reach and reputation for the betterment of the communities it serves. It collaborates extensively with partners, connecting its work with businesses, communities, the third sector and government.
The University has developed a core role in the local society and economy. With around 14,600 students it employs 2,300 staff and supports another 1,800 indirect, induced, student and visitor related jobs. A study reports that it contributes £370m to the local economy and £913m to the UK economy annually. It brings additional talent to the region, with around 23% of the University’s 4,700 annual graduates employed in the Yorkshire and Humber region post-graduation. Further, approximately 6,700 of its students undertake work placements or internships each year: exchanging knowledge with society to mutual benefit.
Hull secured the UK City of Culture 2017 title with its story of “a city coming out of the shadows”, presenting the event as a unique opportunity to shed its image as a deprived port city and build a new profile as a vibrant cultural city. The University recognises that its ‘place’ brings distinctive opportunities and challenges, and where these coincide with the University’s world-class expertise and established partnerships there is great potential to catalyse substantial regional benefits and national and international recognition. This approach has helped place the region at the forefront of some enduring global challenges as well as addressing the priorities of the Government’s Industrial Strategy and the ‘levelling up’ agenda.
The Humber with its extensive port facilities and access to the North Sea has become known as the ‘energy estuary’ as it leads the UK’s energy transformation, having heritage carbon intensive industries yet also establishing a base for the world’s largest offshore wind farms. The University’s strategic focus around creating a net carbon-zero future, together with its partnerships and its expertise in logistics, energy and environmental impact, have helped place the Humber region at the forefront of efforts to tackle the global economic and environmental challenge of clean growth. Similarly, based on the demands of place the University continues to build expertise and partnerships to: tackle health inequalities; understand how we achieve justice and fairness for all; enhance and support our heritage and creative industries; and develop new ways to live and thrive with the impacts of climate change and living with water.
These foci and the University’s new Knowledge Exchange Strategy 2020-25 will see it grow and enhance its high-quality knowledge exchange.
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Local Growth and Regeneration
Summary of approach
As a long-established and actively engaged civic institution, and the only University headquartered in the Humber region, the University of Hull seeks to benefit its place, whilst tackling global challenges. It can make the greatest contribution regionally by continuing to enhance its international reputation and by aligning its work with businesses, communities, the third sector and government.
In collaboration with key partners, the University has identified and enthusiastically pursued strategic foci which draw on:
distinctive regional assets and attributes;
enduring relationships;
its world-class expertise.
Building on a long history and foundation of engagement, over the past three years the University has delivered an exciting range of initiatives designed to drive and accelerate growth and regeneration across the region and beyond.
Aspect 1: Strategy
The University of Hull is a proactive, civically-engaged anchor institution. The only university headquartered in the Humber region, it collaborates extensively with key regional partners identifying place-based growth and regeneration needs and opportunities.
The University worked closely with the LEP to develop the Local Industrial Strategy, with its expertise central to the regional priorities identified.
Contributing to local growth and regeneration is key to the University’s Knowledge Exchange Strategy 2020-25 and Strategic Plan 2016 – 2020, which identifies the Humber region (Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire) as its primary area of influence.
The strategic importance of these geographic areas to the University is rooted in their distinctive natural assets and attributes, and in the deep relationships with those organisations responsible for their growth and wellbeing. Where these coincide with the University’s world-class expertise there is the greatest potential for regional benefits and national and international recognition.
The University recognises the importance of projecting the distinctive strengths of its ‘place’ onto the national and international stage. This has helped place the region at the forefront of some of the world’s enduring challenges as well as addressing the Government’s Industrial Strategy and ‘levelling up’ agenda.
The University’s strategic foci for local growth and regeneration, which have emerged from the triumvirate of place, partnerships and expertise, include:
Low carbon and clean growth: The Humber is the UK’s ‘Energy Estuary’, producing up to 25% of the UK’s energy. The energy intensive nature of the region’s industries make it the largest carbon-emitting cluster in the UK. Yet the Humber is also home to the world’s largest offshore wind farms, providing the opportunity to spearhead a clean growth agenda, powered by renewable energy. This distinguishes it as a potential global exemplar, as a region transitioning from a nationally-vital carbon-intensive to a globally-vital low-carbon estuarial economy.
Ports and logistics: In addition to its new role in low carbon energy the Humber is home to the UK’s biggest ports complex. The Humber offers a natural alternative to the saturated Channel ports, forming a crucial link in the trade and transport corridor from Ireland through Northern England to the Netherlands and the Baltic States. This aligns with recognised and expanding University expertise and positions the Humber as a ‘living laboratory’ and model through which to address these global economic and environmental challenges.
Flood hazard and risk: The Humber is the UK’s second-most flood prone region. Hull has been selected as one of five cities worldwide to contribute to the development of a global water resilience framework, through the Rockefeller Foundation’s Water Resilient Cities Programme. This, and world-class expertise within the University’s Energy and Environment Institute, place the region at the forefront of tackling this global challenge.
Health: Stark health inequalities exist in the region, with life expectancy 22 months lower than the average in England. However, the area is also home to global industry leaders in healthcare, hygiene and wound healing, creating the ideal ‘place’ to tackle the healthy ageing agenda.
Culture: Hull became UK City of Culture 2017 with its story of “a city coming out of the shadows”. A Principal Partner, the University helped establish Hull as a vibrant cultural capital, recognising the profound impact – on people and place – that culture can have.
Activities in all of these strategic foci are underpinned by digital innovation, reflecting Hull’s expertise as a top five UK university for research impact in computer science and informatics and the Humber’s thriving c£7bn digital economy.
Aspect 2: Activity
Low carbon and clean growth:
2019 saw the final year of implementation of the transformational Green Port Growth programme, a £25.7m Regional Growth Fund activity led by a collaboration of the University, East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC), Hull City Council, and Associated British Ports. This was the main driver of regional development activity to generate skills, innovation and business growth to capitalise on Siemens’ game-changing £160m investment in Hull for their global production facility for offshore wind turbines, made possible by Green Port Hull.
From those hugely successful activities the University:
established Aura, a consortium identifying innovation and collaboration opportunities in offshore wind. Aura involves Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, National Oceanography Centre, the universities of Sheffield and Durham, CATCH, Humber LEP and the Northern Powerhouse and has now evolved into broader low carbon/clean growth innovation activities;
created the ERDF-funded £12m Aura Innovation Centre, for future clean growth R&D. The Centre works with supply chain businesses to reduce energy costs, improve productivity and develop a sustainable circular economy.
in partnership with ERYC built ergo, a £4.1m business centre for high-growth, clean growth businesses.
leads the £5.5m EPSRC-funded Aura Centre for Doctoral Training.
Ports and logistics
The University has been instrumental in linking the increasing profile and importance of the Humber Estuary into Northern Powerhouse ambitions, focusing on East-West connectivity to create a compelling northern ports proposition as an alternative to the saturated Channel ports. The Innovate UK-funded Liverpool-Humber Optimisation of Freight Transport (LHOFT) programme brought together major cargo owners, shippers and port operators with technical experts and academics. The University played a key role, with partners including Unilever, Unipart, Kraft-Heinz, Nestlé, ABP, Stena Line, P&O Ferries and rail industry experts.
Health
The University and its partners inform and shape regional health strategy. A LEP-commissioned University analysis of future health and social care sector regional skills requirements led to a new LEP working group focused on health within the economy. Close working between the University and the LEP resulted in health and social care becoming a priority in the Local Industrial Strategy.
The local NHS trust’s decision to rebrand as Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) in 2019 reflects its strong links with the University, and the shared commitment to attracting talent to the region.
The University has state-of-the-art health facilities, including simulated training facilities within the award-winning £28m Allam Medical Building. This houses the Hull Health Trials Unit (HHTU), established in partnership with HUTH. The University has invested £1.8m into an £8.5m Molecular Imaging Research Centre in partnership with the Daisy Appeal charity and HUTH, which, once fully operational (early 2021), will help doctors detect early signs of cancer, heart disease and dementia, and will result in an expansion in regional clinical trials.
The University collaborates with major partners on key health-related challenges, including with:
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Smith & Nephew with whom co-investment of c£3m created one of the world’s largest ‘Wound Care Research Clusters’.
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ERYC and Public Health to shape Live Well, an innovative programme with personalised health advice enabling lifestyle changes promoting weight loss and wellbeing.
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Global health, hygiene and home company RB to offer an MSc in Pharmacology and Drug Development, giving students access to RB’s state-of-the-art Hull Science and Innovation Centre and to mentoring and teaching from its employees.
The University’s Centre for Human Factors builds upon a track-record of research and consultancy about the effects on and of humans within work-systems, particularly in offshore wind: this includes project SPOWTT (Safety Productivity in Offshore Wind Technician Transit) - a £3m industry collaboration – and work with Ørsted and others studying fatigue and shift patterns.
Culture
The University was Principal and research Partner for Hull UK City of Culture 2017, supporting its planning and delivery and investing almost £10m in dedicated digital, studio and performance spaces.
The University also hosted the 2018 British Science Festival, with events on campus and across the city, actively engaging businesses and individuals and inspiring interest in STEM.
Flood Hazard and Risk
The University has developed Ark, a National Flood Resilience Centre. As well as making major contributions to UK and global flood resilience policies, Ark works with at-risk communities and multiple agencies to improve responsiveness to flooding. Ark aims to build a world-class, £15m bespoke flood simulation facility in the Humber. The Flood Innovation Centre supports companies to find innovative approaches to flood resilience.
Maximising the benefit of European Structural and Investment Funds
Having helped develop the regional ESIF strategy the University has since contributed substantially to its delivery. It has started ERDF programmes with a total project value of c£33million in the last 3 years. These include the Flood Innovation Centre, the Aura Innovation Centre, and SparkFund, which collectively create an innovation support ecosystem supporting regional SMEs in key sectors.
Aspect 3: Results
Low carbon and clean growth
Green Port Hull (GPH), a University, Hull and East Riding Councils, and Associated British Ports partnership, was instrumental in attracting Siemens to build its new global turbine facility in Hull, which opened in December 2016. Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy) invested >£6billion in establishing the world’s largest Offshore Wind Farms off the Humber coast. Both global businesses are active partners in the University’s Aura programme, highlighted in the Government’s 2019 Offshore Wind Sector Deal as a world exemplar of a collaborative innovation cluster. GPH led to the successful £25.7m Regional Growth Fund programme Green Port Growth which created/safeguarded 3,539 jobs, generating additional Gross Value Added of £156.7m.
Ports and logistics
Collaboration through the £1.4m LHOFT programme has engaged key industry stakeholders, political leaders and statutory bodies to define the current position while developing entrepreneurial, cross-sector and cost-effective solutions. The importance of an East-West approach is now recognised by Transport for the North, with improved east-west major road links and rail connectivity forming part of the Northern Transport Strategy.
Health
As part of its wound care collaboration with Smith & Nephew the University is working to develop, validate and implement new advanced treatments.
“…this partnership is the most exciting thing I’m aware of in the sphere of wound management…I am not aware of any group anywhere that is doing this as well as the University of Hull is”
Stewart McKinlay,
Vice President of Research & Innovation at Smith & Nephew
Pioneering University developments in medical imaging have substantially improved diagnostic scanning regionally, through a partnership between the University, the Daisy Appeal charity, and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Cancer screening capabilities have increased, with more than 14,000 patients scanned in the new unit since May 2014, and new types of scans enabling imaging of heart conditions and infections being introduced.
The Live Well partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) and Public Health received a 2019 Local Government Chronicle Award, and the researchers involved were named as two of ‘The Nation’s Lifesavers’ by UUK’s MadeAtUni campaign.
Culture
Headline outcomes of Hull UK City of Culture (CoC2017) identified in the University’s evaluation include:
The momentum generated by CoC2017 saw the National Lottery Heritage Fund award £13.6m for Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime Project, noting that this would build on the City of Culture’s legacy.
Headline outcomes of the 2018 British Science Festival hosted by the University include:
Flood hazard and risk
The University made a significant contribution to The Pitt Review of lessons from the 2007 floods, which has remained central to UK flood policy since its publication, being explicitly cited in key subsequent 2016 and 2018 reports. Hull’s selection as one of 5 global foundation cities in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Water Resilient Cities Programme resulted from its prominence in the Pitt review.
The University and the Living with Water Partnership (a partnership between Hull City Council, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency and ERYC formed as a regional response to Hull’s selection as a global foundation city) are working to understand the long-term impacts of previous floods, and undertook a survey of 457 households in 2018. The summary report was the subject of a major Channel 4 News report.
Maximising the benefit of European Structural and Investment Funds
To date the Aura Innovation Centre, the Flood Innovation Centre, and SparkFund have collectively supported:
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Public & Community Engagement
Summary of approach
The University of Hull has a rich and diverse history of public and community engagement, which is firmly embedded within its mission as civic university. A strategic priority is “Being an internationally engaged university, focusing on our anchor institution role … international engagement, building winning partnerships and enhancing our marketing and communications.” This is evidenced by our partnership in Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and our hosting of the 2018 British Science Festival.
Our faculties and institutes have embedded this priority to serve the public, our communities, and user groups efficiently and effectively. All work collaboratively to address the needs of these diverse groups through various forms of engagement and programmes of activities.
Aspect 1: Strategy
The importance of promoting engagement and serving the needs of its communities is embedded in the University’s mission.
Implementing the Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research refreshed consultation across University committees about who to engage and how. This informed the Strategic Plan 2016-2020.
The University’s public and community engagement (PCE) centres on five themes. These respond to the public and community needs; they also synergise with its expertise, facilities and networks:
The only university headquartered in the Humber region, the University is a long-standing and active Civic University that has pledged to co-create a Civic University Agreement;
The University is committed to Citizen Engagement in Science and Engineering to “generate and sustain a supply of scientifically literate, informed and engaged citizens”;
The University upholds Hull’s proud traditions of Promoting Social Justice;
The global challenge of Resilience and Low Carbon has particular significance in the Humber, where decarbonisation simultaneously represents the most significant challenge and the greatest opportunity;
The region suffers stark health inequalities, but also houses global healthcare, hygiene and wound healing industry leaders, creating optimum conditions for a focus on Healthy Ageing.
Deans and PVCs have formal responsibilities for PCE, ensuring accountability and leadership.
The University provides extensive facilities, venues and services, advertised online. Its Exhibition Hall alone welcomed 76,500 visitors from 2016/17-2018/19.
Aspect 2: Support
The University supports, encourages and rewards public and community engagement (PCE):
Central and faculty teams support PCE activity across the University. Further investment has been targeted to support the core engagement themes, including:
Civic University: The University invested £9.5m million in new digital, studio and performance spaces ready for Hull UK City of Culture 2017 (CoC2017). £28K of staff time and 340 hours of PGR Ambassador time underpins OpenCampus annually.
Citizen Engagement in Science and Engineering: In 2016 the University appointed its first Professor of Public Engagement and Science Communication, supported by a Science Outreach Officer. A further Science Outreach Officer, jointly funded by the Ogden Trust, was appointed in 2016. Hosting the 2018 British Science Festival was supported through substantial University investment and external sponsorship.
Promoting Social Justice: In 2019 a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Contemporary Slavery was created.
Resilience and Low Carbon: In 2017 the Energy and Environment Institute appointed a five-year research fellow to research how games, gaming technology, virtual reality, and science festivals can engage people and communities.
Investment in a £28m new health campus has supported engagement with the healthcare and medical community and the core theme of Healthy Ageing.
The Culture Campus community was established to connect academic expertise, artists and publics. Using https://www.facebook.com/culturenethull/ and social media, it offered events, exhibitions, training and a focal point for public outreach during CoC2017, connecting 2,400 volunteers.
Every year the OpenCampus programme provides 40-50 on-campus lifelong learning events (including Culture Cafés, Talks and Reading Groups), for 2,000–3,000 participants. It has an active social media presence.
Aspect 3: Activity
Promoting Social Justice
Transmission from the Wilberforce Institute includes the #hiddeninplainsight campaign that places ‘human packaging’ at high-footfall locations, and the #breakthechain project which uses a ‘human vending machine’ to highlight forced labour.
A Wilberforce Institute-led 2015 AHRC-funded collaboration created Stolen Lives: a powerful, freely-available multi-media educational package that captures slavery stories. Subsequent extensive transmission includes:
A ‘Freedom Week’ in Sierra Leone organised by the British Council (to coincide with CoC2017’s ‘Freedom Season’) included a ‘Stolen Lives’ inspired exhibition at the National Museum of Sierra Leone plus performances by local children. Wilberforce Institute and the British Council collaborated to translate 'Stolen Lives' songs into local languages to support its 'connecting classrooms' programme, transmitting knowledge about modern slavery throughout Sierra Leone;
Performance of its songs by local students at the 2016 Hull Freedom Festival.
Stolen Lives also integrates into the University’s work as a University of Sanctuary.
Citizen Engagement in Science & Engineering
The University hosted the national 2018 British Science Festival. As well as transmitting, the University received knowledge via events including panel discussions, audience interaction, and individual conversations at events like “Trinity After Dark”. Total attendance of 15,260 demonstrates it met a public need.
The University was a strategic partner in Hull Tech Expo 2019, collaborating with local entrepreneurs to inspire the next generation of tech talent.
Individual projects frequently entail all three elements of engagement. For example, Sullied Sediments (€2.043m EU project) drew on the Canals and Rivers Trust’s experience (receiving) to develop citizen science methods for collecting water samples, with volunteers reporting their results (collaboration). Transmission occurred via participation in science festivals and media contributions that responded to the public’s interest.
Another example is the Capturing our Coast project, with the University as a partner, which trained almost 3,000 volunteers (transmitting) to gather and report data (receiving).
Engagement across the region sees knowledge continually transmitted and received through activities serving a clear public appetite. They include:
The phenomena of Anatomy Nights, which has expanded globally by bringing live dissection into pubs;
Soapbox Science, which promotes women scientists and transforms public areas into spaces for public learning and scientific debate;
The Beverley Café Scientifique.
Civic University
A central focus here was the transformative Hull UK City of Culture 2017 (CoC2017).
As Principal Partner and exclusive academic research partner the University was key to programme planning and delivery for this national event. Transmitting, receiving and collaborating occurred in abundance during a multitude of events.
For example, the University-led #thehullwewant project received data via innovative engagement tools including mobile ‘conversation couches’ and a ‘wishing-washing tree’ to which residents ‘pegged’ their needs/dreams – connecting these aspirations to service providers and policy makers. This led to transformative collaborations - including an invitation to work with Public Health and the local authority - and widespread transmission including three BBC Radio programmes.
The University evaluated the impact of CoC2017, receiving data and assessing and transmitting outcomes. It has established an AHRC-funded Cities of Culture Research Network, collaborating with academics, policy-makers and practitioners to shape future policies for UK and European Cities of Culture.
OpenCampus provides 40-50 lifelong learning events annually for 2,000 – 3,000 participants. It enables researchers to transmit their work and receive attendee feedback.
From 2016-2019 c90 students advised on 348 cases via the Legal Advice Centre, receiving clients’ experiences, and transmitting advice.
The University engages extensively with the business community. Its Flood Innovation Centre, Aura Innovation Centre, and SparkFund collectively create an innovation support ecosystem, whilst its Enterprise Centre provides start-up space and facilities. The University also partnered with East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) to create ergo, a £4.1m business centre. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, student placements and internships further assist business innovation.
Resilience and Low Carbon
This agenda met the need to make communities better prepared, informed, and resilient to environmental change. Examples include:
Collaboration with the Living with Water Partnership (LWP) (between Hull City Council, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency and ERYC) to understand the long-term impacts of the Hull 2007 floods. The experiences of 450 households were received via a 2018 survey, with findings transmitted via a summary report that prompted a Channel 4 News report;
Transmission as social media-based campaign #myplasticpledge communicated the importance of small changes in plastic use;
Exploration via the University’s Serious GeoGames Lab of how models and games can better prepare people for environmental hazards. An example of transmission is Flash Flood!, an open access virtual reality simulation which informs students and teachers through a manual, handouts, and articles.
Healthy Ageing
In 2017 University researchers delineated “Breathing Space”: a conceptual framework to convey the experience of living with chronic breathlessness. A mobile ‘Bringing Breathlessness into View’ multimedia exhibition, created in collaboration with artists and local people, was displayed at GP surgeries, clinical training events and other key sites. Knowledge was received from visitors and via a research discussion workshop. A guide to living well with breathlessness, an ongoing virtual exhibition and a blog transmit the benefits of this work to user groups.
The Cultural Legacy of Ageing Well with Dementia event in 2017 likewise served 248 attendees. It raised awareness and enhanced health and care practices. External views were received through public debate, and knowledge was transmitted via delegates and a bespoke website hosting new developments including interactive decision-support toolkits for care providers.
Aspect 4: Results and learning
Depending on their nature, results and activities are evaluated against specific frameworks, or evaluated informally.
Social Justice
Inaugural Modern Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland commented that Wilberforce Institute’s #HiddeninPlainSight campaign reached over 18 million and that “… the phrase was then incorporated into a national media campaign on modern slavery and continues to be used in the bulk of public literature”.
Over 2,000 Sierra Leonean students were directly involved in the Stolen Lives project and 30,000 engaged with it. Teachers’ unions, including NASUWT, endorsed it and it therefore reached over 300,000 members.
Both initiatives impacted significantly on awareness of modern slavery.
Citizen Engagement in Science and Engineering
Evaluation of the British Science Festival 2018 informed future events, finding:
Hull Tech Expo 2019 achieved:
The Sullied Sediments app registered 169 downloads from Citizen Scientists whose data have informed the project, and produced a map of phosphate levels (1,364 views).
Similarly, between 2015-2018 Capturing our Coast, in which the University was a partner, trained c3,000 volunteers to gather data.
Civic University
The City of Culture evaluation measured impact on:
Our more traditional academic engagement also reaches wide audiences. 173 articles by 99 University authors published in The Conversation (2016-2019) had extensive global reach, with nearly 7.2m reads and 1.4K comments. OpenCampus events are also evaluated against attendee numbers and feedback.
The Flood Innovation Centre, the Aura Innovation Centre, and SparkFund have achieved significant engagement to date:
Since opening in 2008 the Enterprise Centre has supported over 140 start-ups.
Resilience and Low Carbon
The summary report of the University’s survey with the Living with Water Partnership (LWP) was the subject of a major Channel 4 News report. Results were shared with participants via a flyer and reported on the radio. LWP partner responses to the feedback include:
Developing resident information leaflets;
Making a Flood Risk Officer available to deal with public flood risk/resilience enquiries.
The #myplasticpledge campaign collected 13,000 pledges and achieved extensive engagement:
FlashFlood! was evaluated and published. 95.1% of the audience had a positive interaction.
Healthy Ageing
The Living with Breathlessness exhibition had 375 visitors and feedback suggested it changed visitors’ perceptions, one describing it as “…a wake-up call as to how patients feel when they are breathless.” The Chair of the NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group described it as “fantastic”. The Breathlessness blog has had c1,600 views.
Updated decision support training for dementia care practitioners has had 687 users since July 2019. Key findings from the feedback survey are published. A dementia advisory board comprises people living with dementia and family carers.
Aspect 5: Acting on results
Projects and initiatives regularly report to internal panels and committees on their evaluation and outcomes. Internal bulletins celebrate external engagement and excellent impact. Several engagement projects underpin REF impact case studies, which are shared internally and on the University’s website.
Knowledge exchange activity and strategic alignment is regularly reviewed by a range of teams, and findings acted upon.
Activities designed to embed the public and community engagement strategy are reviewed during the annual planning process. Internal units appraise their programmes and outcomes against KPIs, and this assessment informs the subsequent years’ planning.
The University’s strategic plan is revised every five years in consultation with staff, students and stakeholders. This process assesses the progress of previous strategic objectives, and identifies learnings.
For further information, please send queries to ke@hull.ac.uk