The Culture team provides advice, brokerage and practical support to academics interested in exploring research collaborations with artists and cultural organisations.
A programme of facilitated workshops, open spaces, Pecha Kucha sessions and idea labs bring together interested academics and potential cultural partners around specific themes.
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The Culture team can support faculties across King's in preparing funding bids or responding to funding calls by brokering and facilitating collaborative relationships with cultural partners.
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Delivered in partnership with faculties, this programme brings together academics and cultural partners to co-devise research pilots and funding bids with impact designed in from the outset.
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The Culture team supports King’s ambitions to underpin research by providing a distinctive line of sight from understanding to application, ensuring impact locally, nationally and internationally.
A programme offering opportunities for health academics at King's to work with artists in developing new conversations and collaborations, with seed funding available for proof-of-concept projects that test arts-based solutions to healthcare challenges.
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A programme that brings together academics, artists and, where appropriate, third-sector professionals, to co-create research-informed pilots of benefit to particular communities or wider society.
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An annual programme that provides PhD students and Early Career Researchers with support to establish a collaboration with a cultural sector or industry partner that will give their research impact beyond academia.
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The Culture team offers academics a range of capacity-building resources and a suite of programmes that share and showcase research findings through partnerships with artists and cultural organisations.
Do you have a great idea for a digital engagement activity? Are you keen to get experience of engaging people with research? Funded by the Centre for Doctoral Studies and the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, PhD students, research staff and academic staff at King's are invited to apply for a small grant of up to £750 to deliver an online engagement activity.
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The Culture team provides a variety of platforms, including exhibitions and interdisciplinary events, on which research outputs can be shared with wider audiences, as well as support mechanisms to build capacity among the cultural community. Potential projects will be asked to complete an EOI, which will be assessed and summarised and then discussed with Faculty and departmental heads who will advise the final decision-making process. Contact the team for more information on what they can offer.
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King’s Artists programme provides opportunities for artists to be resident within faculties across the university to develop their practice within an academic environment, in collaboration with researchers. The programme provides valuable learning models for both staff and students, with each programme culminating in a showcase exhibition.
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The Culture team’s dedicated Cultural Engagement Manager Laura L'Aimable is part of a network of staff who can support and advise academics on increasing the impact of research – and reaching wider audiences – through collaboration.
Contact Laura L'Aimable laura.laimable@kcl.ac.uk
For general enquiries please contact impact@kcl.ac.uk