Along with the six other UK research councils the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) would like to gather valuable feedback regarding their knowledge transfer activities from their Knowledge Transfer Stakeholders. This will contribute to the continued improvement of our business and processes in knowledge transfer.

If you have a Knowledge Transfer role within your organisation whether that be as a researcher, user, facilitator/broker, manager/administrator, professional or sponsor/funder of Knowledge Transfer then we would like to invite you to please take part in this survey which will remain open until June 09 and can be accessed online at: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/epsrc/rcuk_kt_consultation

 
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Editors notes
 
Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £102 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,350 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute nearly a quarter of all research-active staff in the higher education sector. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.  

AHRC's KT Strategy: The high quality of the research base across AHRC's large subject domain offers a rich and powerful source of partnership opportunity for a wide range of user sectors and communities. This is the AHRC's distinctiveness in KT.  The AHRC aims to create opportunities and incentives that increase the flow, value and impact of world class arts and humanities research from academia to wider non-academic, public and private sectors, and to embed a culture of KT across all its programmes, especially research grants.

AHRC’s KT Strategy 2008 – 2011 focuses on four key areas of activity encompassed by KT in the AHRC and sets out statements of intent under each of those areas:

• Policy development and advocacy
• Building and sustaining strategic partnerships
• Connecting partners
• Generic strategies to support KT

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/Policy/Pages/KnowledgeTransferPolicy.aspx

The RCUK Knowledge Transfer Portal can be found at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/ktportal/default.htm
The RCUK Knowledge Transfer Portal is your gateway to Research Councils' activities and schemes in knowledge transfer.
What is knowledge transfer? Knowledge transfer describes how knowledge and ideas move from the knowledge source to the potential users of that knowledge. The Research Councils encourage knowledge transfer by supporting schemes and activities to transfer good ideas, research results and skills between, for example, universities and other research organisations, business, the third sector and/or the wider community.

The RCUK Knowledge Transfer Portal offers a single point of access for those in, e.g., academia, business, public, private and/or third sectors, who want to find out about Research Council knowledge transfer schemes and activities, and how to get involved. You will find links to Research Council funding opportunities, current events, networks, and training courses, just to name a few.