Programme

Leeds-HKU Conference: Moving Beyond Research to Engagement and Impact

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Day 1 (Friday, April 17, 2015)

MORNING
Time	Session	Speaker/Panelist
09:30 – 10:00	Registration
10:00	Video showcase at Foyer outside Wang Gungwu Theatre
10:15 – 10:30	Opening Ceremony	Welcome Address: Professor Paul K. H. Tam Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Hong Kong Opening Address: Professor Frank Finlay Dean of Arts, University of Leeds
10:30 – 12:30	Session 1: Innovative Knowledge Engagement and Sustainable Partnerships How to continue moving on in a meaningful way and meeting the challenges in community-university partnerships? How to handle relationship and expectation management in a partnership amidst changing priorities on both sides? Any engagement models proven to be working?	Chairperson: Professor John Bacon-Shone Associate Director, Knowledge Exchange Office, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Capacity Enhancement Through Collaboration: Partnership Projects of ExCEL3 Professor Cecilia L. W. Chan Head, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU Creative Collaborations: Effective Engagement with Partner Organisations Dr Laura King Arts Engaged Research Fellow, School of History, University of Leeds The University as Life Sciences Ecosystem Orchestrator: A Nanomedicine Case Study Professor Amy Shuen Professor of Management Practice, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Ways in Which to Impact Law and Policy in Hong Kong Professor Simon N. M. Young Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, HKU
AFTERNOON
14:30 – 16:30	Session 2: Articulating and Corroborating Research Impact How can you tell your research has made a difference on society? What kinds of evidence are useful to corroborate impact? What if you work in those areas where corroboration of impact seems vague or difficult, such as public policy and influence on cultural change, or if you use social media to engage the public?	Chairperson: Professor Paul Y. S. Cheung Associate Vice-President (Research); Director of Technology Transfer Office, HKU Three Different Forms of Impact in Engineering Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering,Imperial College London From Corroborating Impact to Evaluating Research Professor Paul Cooke Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds The Price of Impact – What Do You Want from Your Technology Transfer Office? Mr Tom Hockaday Managing Director, Isis Innovation Ltd, University of Oxford Measuring the Benefits of Academic Research Professor Denise Lievesley Professor of Social Statistics and Dean of Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee break and video showcase
17:00 – 18:00	Session 3: Impact Case Studies as Food for Thought in Shaping the Faculty or Institutional Impact Agenda How can we learn from case studies whilst recognising the unique nature of particular projects? Should we try to replicate case studies – or is it better to design each project on its own terms? Should a strategy on impact be derived from examples of good practice, or through a top-down strategy around impact?	Chairperson: Professor Larry D. Qiu Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange), Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU Panel Discussion: Professor Claire Honess Professor of Italian Studies, and Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds Dr Alex Bamji Lecturer in Early Modern History, School of History, University of Leeds Professor Christopher Webster Dean of Architecture, HKU
18:00	Conference adjourns for Day 2

Day 2 (Saturday, April 18, 2015)

Time	Session	Speaker/Panelist
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 10:30	Session 4: Evaluating Impact of Research Beyond Academia Evaluating engagement or impact, or impact of engagement? What works and how assessment models can help shape an institutional impact strategy?	Chairperson: Professor Paul K. H. Tam Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), HKU Evaluating Research Impact in the Biomedical & Life Sciences: Experiences from the UK’s REF2014 Professor Ole Petersen Director of Biosciences, Cardiff University; Chairman of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Sub-panel 5: Biological Sciences Evaluating Impact in the Arts and Humanities Dr Matthew Boswell Arts Engaged Research Fellow, School of English, University of Leeds Assessing Impact: The Experiences of a REF2014 Sub-Panel Chairman Professor Stephen Williamson Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey; Chairman of the UK REF 2014 Sub-panel 13: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break and video showcase
11:00 – 12:00	Session 5: Addressing the Unlikely Disciplines in Knowledge Exchange Is it a myth or reality that KE is not relevant to some disciplines? How to overcome barriers from apathy to open hostility? How to engage more researchers in those disciplines in public engagement and involve them in the discourse of impact?	Chairperson: Professor John Bacon-Shone Associate Director, Knowledge Exchange Office, HKU Addressing the Unlikely Disciplines in Knowledge Exchange Professor Christopher Megone Director of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, University of Leeds Panel Discussion: Professor Samuel M. Y. Ho Associate Head, Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong Professor Christopher Megone Director of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, University of Leeds Dr Jason C. S. Pun Principal Lecturer, Department of Physics, HKU
12:00 – 12:30	Closing Session: What Next for Knowledge Exchange? From being a natural consequence of research to public engagement, impact strategy, and evolving to become an engaged university? How can institutionsenergise themselves in this journey and beyond the earmarked funding?	Chairperson: Professor Douglas Kerr Dean of Arts, HKU 'Flattened by a Runaway Tank ...'? Impact and the Arts and Humanities Professor Frank Finlay Dean of Arts, University of Leeds; Member of the UK REF 2014 Sub-panel 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics
12:30	End of programme

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