Skip to main content
Research

Impact Acceleration Account

Teesside University has been awarded an AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

The IAA is designed to support the development and implementation of impact and will be managed by the Institute for Collective Place Leadership.

The funding will be transformational for our research and the communities we serve, actively supporting the levelling up agenda of the Tees Valley and the cultural renewal of post-industrial towns and cities in the UK and internationally.

It aims to:

  • extend the reach of our research through sustained and immersive partnership working with a diverse range of sectors and geographies through innovative and imaginative forms of engagement
  • support cross-sector engagement to ensure sustainable and substantial impact work
  • extend the reach of our work in terms of both geography and audience
  • access international networks, engage more deeply with hard-to-reach and marginalised communities, ensure sustainable legacies, and build trust by demonstrating the significant value of arts and humanities research to a range of different sectors, stakeholders, and community groups

Resources will be used to support work to develop impact within three themes:

  1. Re-imagining the creative industries
  2. Raising the profile of hidden histories and voices
  3. Reconnecting with the built and natural environment

The funds

IAA funding has been used to support training, events, activities, residencies, and secondments. Applicants for open calls may be full or part-time academic staff who are either part of the Institute for Collective Place Leadership or from our wider academic community at Teesside University.

Funding opportunities

  • Impact generation fund: Provides excellent opportunities for Early Career Researchers or researchers with early-stage impact projects. Funding is available from £1k - £10k.
    We are particularly interested in projects which intersect with policy, education, or potential for commercialisation.  
  • Partnership development fund: Specifically for creating and strengthening partnerships between Teesside University researchers and external partners. This could take the form of sandpits, workshops, or knowledge transfer events. Funding is available from £1k - £10k. 
    We are particularly interested in projects which develop partnerships outside of the region or have international impact.  
  • Follow-on fund: To scale up or provide proof of concept to an already established impact project. Applications require clear evidence of impact or pathway to impact and evidence of partnership development. Funding is available up to £25K.
    We are interested in projects that are innovative, sustainable, and show a clear transition to a larger external funding bid.   
  • Knowledge transfer fund: Placement to allow researchers to become embedded in an organisation, to build sustainable partnerships, to build networks; or, to allow partners to become embedded in the Institute for Collective Place Leadership, with a focus on the research strands. Funding is available up to £25k. 
  • Commercialisation and social enterprise: Encourages innovative applications of arts and humanities-led research and methodologies in a commercial context. This could include prototyping, market research, licensing through partnership work and spin out (including social enterprise and community interest corporations). Funding is available up to £15k.

As Research Fellow for the IAA Sally Blackburn-Daniels will be your first point of contact for IAA related questions and queries. Email Sally on s.blackburn-daniels@tees.ac.uk.

 

Latest news

Teesside University academics are leading key research into workplace health Teesside University to lead key research in £3.7m workplace ...
More news

Research events

More events