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Institutional Context
Summary
Keele was founded as a University College in 1949 with the sponsorship of three local authorities, receiving its Royal Charter in 1962. Around 11,000 students now study at Keele, and with over 2,000 employees, the University contributes £0.22bn a year to the regional economy. Keele’s Science and Innovation Park is a fast-growing employment site and the main centre for high value employment locally.
97% of Keele’s research is rated as world leading or of international importance, and Keele is ranked in the UK Top 10 for its combined teaching and research excellence.
The priorities we share with our civic partners reflect the socio-economic challenges in the local area, and a commitment to driving innovation in sustainability, inclusion, health and wellbeing.
Institutional context
About the University
Keele was founded as a University College in 1949 with the sponsorship of three local authorities, receiving its Royal Charter in 1962. Around 11,000 students now study at Keele, and with over 2,000 employees, the University contributes over £0.2bn a year to the regional economy.
Keele’s teaching and research spans humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and health. Its Medical School was founded in 2003 and now compares with the most highly ranked in England.
While our founding vision did not include traditional engineering we have developed strengths in areas of bioengineering, smart systems and artificial intelligence.
Keele was awarded Gold in the 2017 Office for Students Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (the highest category). We currently rank joint 2nd in England for student satisfaction with course. Keele’s international links include the Country’s first teaching partnership in International Relations, signed with the Bejing Foreign Studies University in 2018.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) rated 97% of Keele’s research as world leading or of international importance, with notable strengths in Allied Health, Primary Care History, Politics and Philosophy. Keele is ranked in the UK Top 10 for its combined TEF and REF results.
At 250 hectares Keele’s campus is the largest single campus environment in Europe, A mixed-use environment, the campus has provided the setting for the unique Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) which uses the campus as a town-scale ‘living laboratory.’ Installed in partnership with Siemens, the demonstrator provides a platform for research, development and innovation in the smart energy technologies required to address climate change.
The campus includes a well-established University-owned science park. The main centre for high value employment locally, the Park is home to six Innovation Centres, 53 companies and 750 employees. It contributes at least £40m a year in GVA, £23m from its health and medtech cluster, and has grown by 25% in the last 3 years.
Local context
Keele sits within the Borough of Newcastle-Lyme, part of the North Staffordshire urban conurbation which also includes Stoke-on-Trent.
The University is an active partner in the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, with a seat on the Executive Board and a significant role in building innovation capacity, supporting strategy development and programme management.
Many parts of Staffordshire remain among the most economically challenged in the UK, with incomes well below those of the rest of the UK despite relatively high levels of employment. Levels of business R&D and innovation are among the very lowest nationally. Keele has played a key role in addressing this, agreeing major strategic projects with civic partners via ‘Keele Deals’, leveraging research strengths to stimulate SME innovation in area’s significant industrial clusters in energy, healthcare and medical technologies, and more broadly.
The Council plans for our local authority partners Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire County Council, and Stoke-on-Trent City Council include shared priorities around outcomes for young people and families, health and wellbeing, economic growth and the future of urban centres. Keele is an actively contributing to the delivery of many of these aspirations.
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Local Growth and Regeneration
Summary of approach
Whilst the University’s reach extends well beyond the immediate area, our main focus in supporting local growth has been Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire.
In 2017 we agreed the Keele Deal | Economy, a £70m plan developed with partners to realise the benefits from research and innovation, generate growth, improve healthcare and put our region at the heart of the transition to a lower carbon economy.
This led to one of the largest university-led regeneration programmes in England, created a world-leading smart energy demonstrator, four new innovation centres and supported 627 SMEs. By the end of 2020 it will have generated an additional £16m for the local economy and by 2021 will be saving 4,096 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year.
Aspect 1: Strategy
Local Growth and Regeneration in our KE Strategy 2016-20
Whilst the University’s economic reach extends well beyond the immediate area, our main focus in local growth and regeneration has been Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. The increasingly productive relationships established with the Local Enterprise Partnership, business leaders and the local authorities has led to the creation of one of the largest university-led regeneration programmes in England (3rd largest among 134 universities nationally in 18/19, rising from 21st place in 2012/13).
There is no doubt that local area requires this level of resource (and more) to address the profound challenges in its business base. As our 2016-20 Knowledge Exchange Strategy sets out Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire faces:
Low levels of business expenditure in R&D (BERD) at £155m per annum (within a national range of £19m to £1,332m), with a low percentage share of national BERD relative to the percentage share of FTE employment nationally.
An hourly GVA of £23.92 per FTE in 2012, 38th out of 39 LEP areas;
Low levels of company innovation, with less than 10% of total companies reported as innovation active in 2012 (placing the LEP 36th out of 39 LEP areas);
The lowest level of innovation expenditure relative to turnover of any LEP in England, with only 6.5% of turnover in companies being generated by innovative goods and services, placing the LEP area 33rd out of 39 LEP area.
(BEIS mapping of comparative local advantage).
The area also presents opportunities for higher value added growth aligned with the research base at Keele, including identified clusters in energy and environmental technologies and high employment in life sciences (1st out of 19 LEP areas with potential employment clustering in this area).
The Strategy strongly reflects the University’s growing role as a local economic anchor. The design principles underpinning its programme priorities address the key requirements for an effective local innovation system based on leading examples globally.
The priorities set out in the strategy include:
New Keele Deal: to establish a strategic local agreement (now Keele Deal | Economy) setting out the shared ambitions and investment plans for place of innovation-led growth in the area’s industrial strategy, along with support for the programme approach. The Deal positioned Keele as a Strategic Growth Site across the broader North West Midlands.
Business Gateway: a welcoming front door for businesses and a single easily navigable way to connect with Keele’s expertise.
SME research and innovation: at considerable scale to support many more SMEs to plan and deliver research and innovation to internationally recognised standards.
Apprenticeships: A stronger contribution from Keele’s education programmes to meeting local employment needs through the development of higher and degree level apprenticeships.
SME Leadership: a programme for SME owner-managers to address the evidenced challenges of implementing successful innovation. Its design was underpinned by academic research, BEIS and EU commissioned studies.
Smart Energy Demonstrator and ‘Living Lab’: realising the ambition for the mixed use environment at Keele’s campus to provide an at-scale demonstrator and ‘living laboratory’ for smart-enabled low carbon energy technologies, capitalising on Keele’s private network.
Open Health Innovation: health and medtech innovation infrastructure in partnership with the NHS, building on the nine life sciences companies on the Science and Innovation Park, which employ 360 people.
The development of the Strategy was informed by feedback from key stakeholders, ensuring that it was responsive to the specific ‘calls to action’ on Keele in the 2014 Strategic Economic Plan for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. Investment proposals led by Keele were formally assessed as having a high level of strategic fit by the LEP.
The first Keele Deal was followed by a Keele Deal | Culture in 2018 and Keele Deal Health in 2019 – each making different contributions to local growth and with different geographies to reflect our existing footprint of partnerships and/or the areas of need and opportunity for the intended impacts.
Geographic focus of each Keele Deal
Aspect 2: Activity
Progress against the proprieties in the 2016-20 KE Strategy is set out below.
Delivery of the ‘New Keele Deal’. The Deal was launched in January 2017. Partners included the Local Enterprise Partnership, Staffordshire County Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and the University Hospital North Midlands.
Huge strides have been made since the Deal was signed to develop Keele Science and Innovation Park (KUSIP) as a strategic growth site, with the completion of two further innovation centres (which together house over 50 businesses and 750 employees) and two private sector investments. Keele University Growth Corridor proposals secured support in the Local Plan in 2017.
University Enterprise Zone status was awarded by Research England in the autumn of 2019, enabling Innovation Centre 7 (IC7) to progress, which will focus on advanced data analytics, Construction will start at the end of 2020.
A combined Veterinary School with Harper Adams and Innovation Centre 8 (with a focus on agtech, animal science and food security innovation) is also under construction. This has the potential to add an additional £65m GVA to the regional economy by 2033 and support over 110 jobs.
The Keele University Business Gateway was launched in November 2016 as part of the inaugural Staffordshire Business Festival. The Gateway provides a website, a single phone line, a clear description of the opportunities and expertise available, and is supported by a team of 12 business advisors to guide people to the right solutions.
Keele Research and Innovation Support Programme (KRISP) This programme was launched in 2016 and has since delivered entry level research and innovation projects via graduate consultants with academic oversight.
Degree-level Apprenticeships. Keele’s first apprenticeships were delivered from 2018/19 and our Apprenticeships portfolio now includes five programmes with 26 employers including Barclays, Allied Bakeries and Matalan. 165 learners have benefited to date, and further programmes are in development to support the next phase in our research-aligned contributions to local growth.
In 2018 Keele established an Employer Advisory Group to provide graduate employers with an opportunity to influence and contribute to student learning. The group now includes 90 national, regional and local employers.
Mercia Centre for Innovation Leadership (MCIL). This six-month programme enables owner managers and senior teams to benefit from expertise within Keele Business School. Launched in 2016/17, the programme is now on its sixth cohort.
The Smart Innovation Hub. In 2018/19 Keele’s programmes around SME innovation and entrepreneurship were brought together in a purpose-built facility in Keele University’s Science and Innovation Park, to provide:
(a) incubation and grow-on space for innovation-led SMEs;
(b) a hub for business-university interactions; and
(c) a home for Keele Business School.
The unique building was completed in August 2019 and opened its doors the following month.
The Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) has gained an international profile for its ambition and leadership in carbon reduction and open innovation in localised smart energy. The initial infrastructure was installed in 2018/19 in partnership with Siemens for whom this is a flagship innovation project. Two industry engaged Professors, Doctoral and Masters projects and a supply chain development programme support flexible levels of collaboration with SMEs (193 to date).
The success of SEND has led to Keele’s involvement in two major partnerships at the forefront of UK energy revolution:
Zero Carbon Rugeley – part of the UK Industrial Strategy’s PFER programme, this two-year project led by Engie UK delivers a citizen-informed design for the smart localised energy system for the town of Rugeley in Staffordshire, building on the expertise SME development at Keele.
A partnership led by Cadent and Northern Gas Networks, the Hydeploy project saw Keele become the first site in the UK to accept hydrogen into its domestic and commercial gas supply, proving the safety case and providing consumer insights to inform the evaluation of the roll-out.
The Business Bridge health and medtech open innovation programme started in 2016, supporting 60 open innovation projects since its inception. In 2018 we held the first Keele-led Healthcare Business Network, a regional forum for companies in all sectors. The network now includes over 150 members.
The Keele Deal | Health, the third of our Deals was launched in November 2019, with a geographic focus extending into Shropshire, Cheshire and Wolverhampton. As well as addressing local health and care priorities, the Deal further develops the local eco-system to promote innovation-led growth.
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Local Industrial Strategy. Keele has played a key role in the development of the area’s local industrial strategy, particularly around the role of innovation in transitions to a more resilient higher value low carbon economy.
Regional collaboration. Keele is an active partner in two of the platforms established Midlands Innovation Partnership to support the economic impact of Universities across the region:
ERA – Keele contributing demonstrator capacity around smart systems and hydrogen, as well as disctinctive social science expertise; and
Micra, the UK’s largest technology transfer eco-system. This is supported by a distinctive commercialisation policy at Keele, which rather than holding on to IP, seeks to vest the commercial rights and/or ownership in IP with the external partner(s) best placed to exploit it.
COVID-19 Civic response
Keele has been involved in a range of efforts to address the impacts of the pandemic. Our business focus has included Keele Talks Business webinar series and an enterprise Base Camp to address the anticipated rise in ‘necessity entrepreneurship’.
Keele’s KE Strategy 2021-25
We are currently laying foundations for the 2021-25 KE Strategy. As part of this, we have been working with partners on our longer-term contribution to recovery and are now able to set out Keele’s proposition, a comprehensive institutional endeavour, which will be launched as a Keele Deal | Recovery later in the autumn. Our aim is to further demonstrate the difference a university can make to the fortunes of an area when it shows collective leadership, listens to and works with others, and delivers on shared priorities.
Keele Deal | Recovery thematic coverage
Aspect 3: Results
New Keele Deal: Since its launch the Keele Deal Economy has attracted over £36m of capital funding into the local area to support local growth, along with £15.8m of revenue funding to promote innovation-led growth and stimulate business investment in R&D. This is already estimated to have delivered an additional £16m into the local economy, and by 2021 is set to have achieved a reduction in CO2 emissions of 4,096 tonnes a year.
Business Gateway and Local Growth programmes
The Keele University Business Gateway team has dealt with 1,200 enquiries from businesses, and has helped 627 to access Keele’s programmes and wider expertise. The headline outputs from our local growth programmes to date are:
Beyond these metrics we gain an understanding of the experience and outcomes for our business partners in a variety of ways:
Independent evaluation – an external end-of-project evaluation (‘summative assessment’) is commissioned for every local growth programme. These inform the development and delivery of new programmes
Post project feedback surveys
Keele Deal partner updates: partners in the Deals are brought together at appropriate intervals for updates and to share perspectives on progress and review priorities for the coming period
Press and PR – Keele’s Business Gateway includes dedicated Press and PR expertise to build up case-studies and news on the website, drawing audiences to these through professional and social media and press releases at the local, regional and national levels as well as the Business Gateway newsletter, which has 2,361 active subscribers.
Business Awards - We share and celebrate the impacts of our business-facing activities at Breaking the Mould, (BTM) our annual business awards, which we started in 2019. BTM is one of many platforms enabling peer-to-peer learning across our business-facing activities.
For further information, please send queries to ann.pittard@keele.ac.uk
Public & Community Engagement
Summary of approach
The outcomes of effective engagement can be profound - transforming lives and communities locally, nationally and internationally.
External engagement is central in Keele’s Strategic Plan and Mission, embedded in education and research and not a third, separate activity. Keele’s leadership structures ensure that learning is captured and acted on, and that excellent public engagement practice is recognised and rewarded as a mainstream activity. Our professional services team delivers transformative strategic platforms to provide new opportunities for academic impact.
Over the last decade Keele has gained a strong reputation for innovation in community co-production. Through our Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre (CASIC) we have, with our partners, nurtured a diverse and skilled community of practice in public community engagement.
Aspect 1: Strategy
Engagement and collaboration is central in Keele’s Strategic Plan and Mission, embedded in our education and research and not seen as a third separate activity. Keele’s Knowledge Exchange Strategy 2016-20 identified four institutionally significant areas of focus for development:
Community Legal Outreach Collaboration (CLOCK) – scaling up Keele’s unique transformative methodology for student outreach to support disadvantaged communities through legal research, data, policy work and community legal education (Current UK reach below, plus engagement with Indian universities);
Establishing and developing the Keele Policing Academic Collaboration (KPAC), focusing initially on Staffordshire, but with aspirations to extend its reach to other areas. (now working across seven UK forces);
Developing the Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre (CASIC) with its pioneering methods of co-production aimed at helping communities to work together to achieve practical change (Local and international projects);
Developing Keele’s internationally recognised strengths in public engagement in healthcare and medicine, including international collaborative healthcare research (see also open health and medical innovation in Regeneration and Local Growth);
The Strategy also included the scaling up of student skill-building around engagement, through an integrated programme of placements and projects, along with related work-based learning and professional education, enriching Keele’s engaged research through increased professional relationships.
Our approach to public engagement developed very quickly from that point. In 2016 we adopted the National Co-ordinating Centre’s manifesto for public engagement, signalling an intention to move beyond individual centres of excellence and wholeheartedly embrace public engagement.
Since 2017 the University has developed, through co-production, a number of focused ‘Deals’, developed collaboratively to identify needs and deliver regional impacts. A Keele Deal for post-Covid-19 recovery will be launched in 2020 and a Keele Deal | Inclusion in 2021, building on the range of contributions to address the impacts of the pandemic.
Since 2018, Keele’s strategy has been shaped by three interdisciplinary institutes for Sustainable Futures and Social Inclusion, Global Health, along with School-based research in Primary Care, Pharmacy and Bioengineering.
Between 2017 and 2019 Keele undertook a major institutional development project to embed public engagement, with a focus on co-production, supported by UKRI funding. Its starting point was feedback from community partners in a powerful (and at times salutary) listening exercise, as part of a programme institutional self-assessment.
A dedicated PER Steering Group was put in place, chaired by the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise and comprising of community partners and Faculty Public Engagement Champions.
Aspect 2: Support
This institutional development drive has enabled Keele to move forward in many aspects of support for Engagement.
Academic leadership and peer learning
For many years CASIC has been at the centre of a vibrant and growing community of researchers practising methods of community co-production in diverse disciplines. CASIC has made a huge contribution to academic insights and skills in this area, building an institution-wide community of engaged researchers. Now embedded in the Keele Institute for Social Inclusion, CASIC will shortly be relaunched as the Community-Centred Collaborative Methodologies Network (C3M).
All three Interdisciplinary Research Institutes set up since 2017 have been established as collaborative entities, with external membership from the outset to provide a setting for diverse knowledge mobilisation.
Keele’s expertise in co-production is also playing a strong role in the environment for research in the Global South, with academic leads experienced in co-production. Creative methods form part of large projects such as Eclipse and MADAR.
Professional Services support
A new approach to professional services support for engagement was introduced in 2015 with the creation of the Directorate of Engagement and Partnerships. Three Heads of Partnership Development work alongside academic leaders to shape and deliver major externally funded strategic projects, enabling 14 new non-academic KE staff to be employed in 2016/17, their success in turn enabled the recruitment of further KE staff to support broader public engagement in Faculties.
In 2017 we relocated Keele’s Public Arts Team into the Directorate to strengthen their role in creative public engagement with research.
In Medicine and Health Sciences Impact Accelerator Unit supports two-way knowledge mobilisation, enabling stakeholders to work together to increase research-informed healthcare and health care-informed research. This includes facilitating lay involvement, an area Keele has recognised strengths in nationally, which also promotes strong public and patient engagement in Keele’s support for clinical trials.
Strategic Research Development
New forms of professional support have been put in place to engage external partners at an early stage in strategic research development (working with our partner Know Innovation) Earlier this year this was used to develop the research agenda for Keele Deal | Inclusion. and in November we will be supporting Keele’s new collaborative Food Security Network.
Co-production Workshop ‘visual harvesting’ for Keele Deal | Inclusion
Collaborative research development is also seeded by the Institutes, KISI’s Active Partnership Programme, which starts with externally generated challenges rather than academic ideas.
Reward and recognition
In 2018/19 we introduced engagement into all academic role expectations, enabling engagement to form part of workload allocations at School level. This was followed by inclusion in revised promotions criteria. In 2019 Keele Excellence Awards embraced an award for Public Engagement with Research.
Training and development
An annual Engagement and Impact festival provides the main focus for professional development Keele’s Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences features Grand Challenge lectures from high profile speakers in this area. Other resources are curated on Keele’s research support pages.
Engagement features within the core training of the Keele Doctoral Academy, and is available through all Doctoral Training Partnerships. Civic and social learning also features among the Keele Institute for Innovation and Teaching Excellence’s priority themes.
Festivals and Public Art
Keele’s revised Cultural Strategy and subsequent Keele Deal launched the idea of an annual festival of public engagement, UKRI funding enabling the launch of ‘Stoking Curiosity’ in 2018, providing opportunities for academic colleagues and community groups with knowledge to share.
Aspect 3: Activity
KPAC’s engagement takes the form of co-produced applied research and collaborative evaluation. Over the last three years, collaborations have included work around Street Doctors and knife crime, driver safety, procedural justice, crowds policing, emergency call handling, multi-agency collaboration, policing and mental health, change management, safeguarding and civil contingencies.
Building on Keele’s tradition of developing co-production methodologies the Police Knowledge Fund project enabled three ‘proof of concept’ projects to develop and test effective mechanisms for knowledge exchange. Completed in 2017/18, this was followed by the development of a model of collaborative working with external partners which has been used as a framework to improve evidence-based practice.
CLOCK has assisted 1,473 local litigants over the past 3 years, and formalised its methods of co-production enabling roll-out across the country. Over the last three years this has been adopted by a further 12 Law Schools in eight partnerships in England, enabling the training more than 500 Community Legal Companions.
Courts operating with CLOCK Legal Companion support
CASIC and Creative Engagement
Since 2014, CASIC has led 18,773 engagements with community members through 778 workshops. Its methodology has been used to co-produce practice-centred solutions in areas such as volunteering, food futures, health, sustainability and post-disaster reconstruction in community and business settings in the UK, Canada, Japan, Greece, France and the Philippines. CASIC facilitated a Food Charter for Stoke on Trent new local Food Festivals, which over the period of the strategy have engaged over 3,000 community members.
Keele’s research-based engagement around late life creativity also continued to flourish with attendance at the Annual Live-Age Festival in Partnership with the New Vic Theatre and Age UK reaching over 3,537 participants in its first five years (2014-19).
Stoking Curiosity, the knowledge festival co-produced with community partners took place for the first time in 2018, animating SpodeWorks with 43 imaginative and interactive activities activities enjoyed by 300 attendees. In 2019 there were 98 events/activities with over 700 visitors. Highlights from 2018 include an interactive exhibit on state-of-the-art prosthetics from our bioengineering, researchers exploring possibilities of plastic recycling through interactive learning and tactile play and Keele’s Emergency Poet,
ArtsKeele’s recent projects to support research include work with academics on ageing, migration, male mental health, international development, public health and rare diseases.
Public and Patient Engagement in Healthcare and Medicine. Between 2017 and 2020, Keele’s Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Unit has enabled the patient voice to be heard in 402 research studies across the West Midlands. Our Research User Group (RUG) grew its membership during the period from 117 to 165.
This month Keele launches the Insight | Public Involvement project, funded by the West Midlands Clinical Research Network. The project will co-produce and test a new quality awards programme for public involvement in medical research (e.g. the NHS & universities). The multi-partner project includes the independent group Expert Citizens.
Student Engagement
Keele’s Research and Innovation Support Programme, has supported student involvement in over 300 projects over the last three years. Additional funding has recently enabled virtual projects with voluntary sector partners. Building on this the Keele Institute for Innovation and Teaching Excellence (KIITE) has secured significant funding from the Office for Students and Research England to develop innovative approaches to student-led knowledge exchange.
One of the more active areas of public engagement is the research on exoplanets from our Astrophysics group has been shared via our Stardome, a prize-winning portable planetarium, which has reached out to around 5000 school children per year for over a decade, resulting in some powerful accolades: ‘It was awesome, I love science’.
Aspect 4: Results and learning
Our involvement in SEE-PER and with NCCPE means that training in evaluation is a crucial component of our public engagement offer. All major public engagement at Keele is formally evaluated, the PER Steering Group taking responsibility for understanding evaluations and acting on findings. ‘Stoking Curiosity’ provides one example, with changes arising from this on activities and audiences.
CLOCK fully established a pioneering online platform to capture all aspects of its operation – the nature and scale of demand from litigants, their insights and experience, partner involvement, judicial outcomes and data. The online platform has enabled a swift response to new issues emerging during the pandemic, and analysis relating to CLOCK’s objectives.
KPAC sustains an ongoing dialogue with its partners, and specific projects, many of which are UKRI-funded include their own learning and evaluation to support impact. The Police Knowledge Framework for effective knowledge exchange has specific objectives around the uptake of evidence-based practice at all levels, requiring specific techniques for evaluation with frontline staff.
CASIC has played a critical role in the development of North Staffordshire’s sustainable food communities, catalysing a ‘network of networks’ and supporting the area’s efforts to become a Sustainable Food Place.
CASIC’s methods learn from the expertise of communities, build mutual understanding with policymakers and then support them in moving forward. The difference CASIC makes is expressed in feedback in terms of transforming relationships, empowering communities and providing hope.
In addition to its influences on clinical practice by providing a patient voice, Keele’s Public and Patient involvement activities have also had a transformative impact on individuals and patient communities. This has endowed many with confidence, a sense of personal value and a voice.
Evaluation of the Live-Age festival led to the creation of the Ages and Stages theatre company, which has now delivered performances at the Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Latitude Festival.
Evaluation demonstrates its role in:
enabling older people to access creative activities for the first time.
influenced creative practice, and
enhancing quality of life and self-esteem.
Student Knowledge Exchange projects also include structured feedback at intervals and project close. Some stories of impact are highlighted here.
Aspect 5: Acting on results
The PER Steering Group works with other university platforms such as our Research Leaders Network and our GCRF Steering Group to act on results. Our Keele Deals are also key developmental platforms for refining our strategic approach - especially important as we engage with partners over Keele Deals in Recovery and Social Inclusion.
Whilst Keele can demonstrate widespread good practice around evaluation, learning and the use of what flows from it, we recognise that there is scope for improvement on the visibility of this work.
For further information, please send queries to ann.pittard@keele.ac.uk