Imperial College London was awarded a four year ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (ESRC IAA) and subsequent bridging year to support a diverse suite of activities running until March 2019.
The IAA helped us to encourage two-way dialogue and collaboration between our social scientists and research users in external organisations, in order to maximise the potential impact of social science research on policy and practice.
The objectives for the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account were to:
- maximise the impact of social science research at Imperial, by providing opportunities for social science research to be integrated into our end-user communities,
- build partnerships between the social science scholars across the College and the external community, in so doing, embed social science approaches and methods in research throughout our many stakeholders and practitioners,
- increase awareness of Imperial’s social science and its impact both externally (the public, business and government) and internally, including closer engagement with the ESRC Social Science week activities to ensure maximum exposure and integration of internal scholarship to an external audience.
The following projects have been supported through the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Open Call:
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Professor Marcus Perkmann | Business School, Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Designing effective corporate accelerators |
Dr Adam Hawkes | Chemical Engineering | Understanding consumer energy efficiency behavior through data |
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Dr Jeff Hardy | Grantham Institute | BEIS secondment (outward) |
Professor Jenny Nelson | Grantham Institute | The impact of energy accounting on emissions mitigation and energy policy |
Professor Andreas Eisingerich | Business School, Management | The mobile cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for smoking cessation |
Dr Mireille Toledano | School of Public Health | Enhancing engagement in public health research in seldom-heard groups |
Ms Amanda Wolthuizen | Communications and Public Affairs | Training to influence policy makers |
Dr Robert Gross | Centre for Environmental Policy | Briefing paper on demand response |
Professor Alison Holmes (Enrique Castro-Sanchez) | Medicine | Exploiting serious electronic games to modify behaviour |
Professor Alison Holmes (Esmita Charani) | Medicine | International and local narratives on the experiences of healthcare professionals diagnosing and treating infections and implementing antimicrobial stewardship |
Professor Roger Kneebone | Surgery and Cancer | VISIOT Stage 2 |
Professor John Polak | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Transforming UK infrastructure appraisal practice: The role of real option portfolios under uncertainty |
Professor Clive Potter | Centre for Environmental Policy | The Impact of New International Policy on UK Forest and Conservation Management |
Dr Audrey de Nazelle | Centre for Environmental Policy | The impact of smartphone technology on public engagement in air pollution |
Professor Walter Distaso | Business School, Finance | Factor Investing - A variance based allocation |
Dr Seth Flaxman | Mathematics | Parliamentary Academic Fellowship (outward secondment) |
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Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Professor Martin Siegert | Grantham Institute | Society led low-carbon transformations: implications on regulatory and policy development and design (inward secondment) |
Professor Tim Green | Energy Futures Lab | A White Paper on Energy Systems Integration |
Dr Sharon Weldon | Surgery and Cancer | VISIOT |
Dr Mark Workman | Grantham Institute | An Organisational Strategic Narrative for the IPCC |
Dr Mark Workman | Centre for Environmental Policy | Utility 2050: Society, Investors and Policy Makers |
Dr Arnab Majumdar | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Development of an investigation and safety analysis tool for airspace infringements (IASTAI) |
Dr Aruna Sivakumar | Civil and Environmental Engineering | DfT Secondment (outward) |
Dr Mark Workman | Centre for Environmental Policy | Decision Framing and Uncertainty Modelling Network |
Professor Jenny Nelson | Physics | Global Energy Governance (inward secondment) |
Professor Roger Kneebone | Surgery and Cancer | Embodied Knowing |
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Professor Nigel Brandon | Grantham Institute | The importance of electricity storage for carbon emissions mitigation |
Professor Jonathan Haskell | Business School | The impact of new communication technologies on productivity growth |
Dr Adrian Butler | Civil Engineering | Social Networking for Pragmatic Improvement of Water Quality and Health in Bangladesh. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Dr Nick Jones | Mathematics | A Proof of Concept Study for Demonstrating a Network Inference Tool |
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Dr Kaveh Madani | Centre for Environmental Policy | Pathways to low carbon energy: Benefiting from social ‐ science ‐ based decision analysis methods in the strategic assessment of uncertainty in energy policy development |
Professor EJ Milner-Gulland | Life Sciences | Methods for assessing the human wellbeing impacts of nature conservation interventions: a workshop for practitioners |
Dr Simon Pooley | Life Sciences | Data and analysis can save lives: human and crocodilian. To find out more about this project see the related news article |
Dr Dalal Alrajeh | Computing | Building an Intelligent Crime Linkage System. To find out more about this project see the case study |
Professor Martin Siegert | Grantham Institute | Accelerating the development of policy support systems for natural resources management in Nepal. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Dr Alexandra Collins | Centre for Environmental Policy | Delivering Integrated Catchment Management: The Role of Monitoring and Stakeholder Engagement . To find out more about this project please see the case study |