ESRC Impact Acceleration Account

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at Queen's

Enabling our social science community to respond to impact opportunities in flexible, responsive and creative ways

Introducing the ESRC IAA at Queen's

The ESRC IAA at Queen's helps to maximise the societal and economic impact of social science research by facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing with external partners. The scheme supports the translation of research findings into practical applications, policy recommendations and commercial opportunities.

Funding available

guidelines

Rapid Impact (open)

Up to £1k for spontaneous opportunities

Application form

Leading Impact (Closed)

Up to £15k for social science impact initiatives

Application form

CRoSS+ (Closed)

Up to £10k for commercialisation projects

Application form

Partnerships (Closed)

Up to £5k for non-academic partnerships

Application form

Placing People (Closed)

Up to £5k for fellowships and practitioner appointments

Application form

Impact Content and Events (closed)

Up to £1k for impact content and events

Application form

Projects we have supported

Rapid Impact

Name	School	Project title	Project summary
Rebecca Loader	SSESW	Reductions in Education Funding - Rapid Response	View
Emma Campbell	NBE	Running a EU 'Clever Cities' conference session on co-design	View
Nichola Booth	SSESW	Autism in the Air	View
Shane Brighton	HAPP	Talking to Americans about Northern Ireland: an Historical Briefing to British Diplomats in Washington	View
Laura Dunne	SSESW	Attendance at UN General Assembly event	View
Marek Martyniszyn	Law	Engagement with the European Court of Justice	View

Leading Impact

Name	School	Project title	Project summary
Yecid Ortega	SSESW	Improving community relations through understanding historic, linguistic and cultural identities	View
Christine Brown Wilson	Nursing & Midwifery	The Codesign of a Chinese Dementia Awareness Game	View
Denise Currie and Heike Schroder	QMS	Evidence-based Wellbeing Strategies for the Health and Social Care Workforce (NI): Informing Human Resource Strategy and Practice	View
Emma Reisz	HAPP	Participant auto-Ethnography Around Colonialism and Empire (PEACE) / working title: MMMV2	View
Katerina Dounavi	SSESW	Acting on early life autism signs (Act-ELAS)	View
Cheryl Lawther	Law	Trend Indicator Toolkit for Dealing with Online Extremism	View
Pratyush Nath Upreti	Law	The Role of Geographical Indications in Promoting Rural Development in Nepal	View
Ruth Hunter	MDBS	There is no Planet B: The importance of protecting where we live	View
Tess Maginess	SSESW	Translating Age: Exploring attitudes to and experiences of ageing among older migrant women in Northern Ireland and Canada	View

CROSS+

Name School Project title Project summary

Paulina Wilson Law Comparative law challenges in cross-border/multilingual law practice View

Name	School	Project title	Project summary
Paulina Wilson	Law	Comparative law challenges in cross-border/multilingual law practice	View

Partnerships

Name	School	Project title	Project summary
Amy Jayne McKnight	MDBS	Extending RARDTAC, REDRESS-Rare, and RAiN rare disease networks to enhance impact from social science research	View
Edwar Calderon	NBE	Long-Live Diversity: Good Relations among young groups in Mid Ulster	View

Placing People

Name School Project title Project summary

Liam O'Hare SSESW Innovation Zones ‘Conversations’ project secondment View

Name	School	Project title	Project summary
Liam O'Hare	SSESW	Innovation Zones ‘Conversations’ project secondment	View

STRIDE Consultancy

STRIDE is a consultancy firm based at Queen's University Belfast, specialising in social impact programmes that work. It was supported through the CROSS strand.

Reducing Opioid Related Deaths

This project sought to reduce opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of death from overdose on release from prison. It was supported through the Leading Impact strand.

For more information and support please contact esrciaa@qub.ac.uk

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Explore Further

UKRI Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) are strategic awards that offer funding to research organisations for a wide range of impact-driven activities. These awards allow research organisations to respond flexibly, responsively, and creatively to various opportunities for creating impact. There are 32 organisations across the UK with ESRC IAAs.