SurreyIDEA and the Surrey ESRC IAA are passionate about the benefits and opportunities for researchers in engaging with businesses and are pleased to announce the latest workshop in the Connecting and Engaging Researchers with Business programme: Commercialising: Developing and Delivering Impact

This a 3 day workshop running from Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th February. The workshop will involve an interactive session each morning lasting for 2 hours followed by a self managed activity.

Participants will be expected to commit 10-12 hours in total across the three days.

The aims of the workshop are to support participants to engage with business through their research. The programme will help participants to better understand and develop:

• A range of key skills which can be transferable across a range of contexts including business engagement, such as influencing, networking, persuading and trust building;

• An understanding of how their own disciplinary knowledge, thinking and methodologies can be applied across a range of business engagement contexts to bring value to both research and practice.

Session 1: Building your network

This session examines the importance of building networks for business engagement across a range of different contexts. It will examine both face-to-face and on-line networks and offers a range of practical advice on the good practice in doing this.

Session 2: The commercial implications of your research

The session examines a range of approaches through which academic research can be conceptualised for business engagement in a variety of contexts ranging from commercialisation to consultancy to fact finding.

Session 3: Pitching your research to a business audience

This final session builds on the first two sessions and offers participants the opportunity to pitch their research to a non-academic audience and through this better understand the demands and expectations of working with business.

For more information on the Commercialising: Developing and Delivering Impact workshop, please contact: SurreyIDEA’s Academy Manager Donna Shanks SurreyIDEA@surrey.ac.uk

To book a place on the workshops, please follow the link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/136426739049