Bram has taken time to consider the prerequisites for developing research impact, as well as the potential dark side of the need for impact.
Developing themes within this research, Bram, along china rcs data with Neil (our impact manager), was fortunate to be able to work with a fantastic group of older people to create a ‘Living Library’ for the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
What I’ve enjoyed most about being a Fellow, next to the opportunity to reflect on the impact agenda, was our collaboration to set up a different, more diffuse kind of impact event. The Living Library at Manchester Central Library was aimed at dispelling some assumptions and myths about ageing by combining findings from my work with real life conversations with more experienced people.
Foodborne illness
rachel oldroydRachel Oldroyd, combines research into food safety and health geography with teaching GIS & quantitative geography at the University of Leeds.
Rachel has come up with some innovative ways of ‘scraping’ data from TripAdvisor and social media to map unofficial reports of food poisoning, something which can have a real impact on people’s lives when eating out (or getting a quick chippy). Her thoughts on what effects her research have on the world are well worth a read, as a good example of the questions many Early Career Researchers face.