Are you looking for novel ways to increase the public impact of your research?

Join our workshop with art/tech organisation Collusion to hear examples of ways in which you can collaborate with artists to boost public engagement by using creative research methodologies that involve new and emerging digital technologies.

The SHAPE Hub will run a series of workshops designed to invite “entry-level” engagement between Collusion and the research community, giving researchers practical introductory support, in-depth case studies, time, space and resource and access to advice, to experiment with collaborative approaches involving the creative industries. These sessions will raise researchers' skills and confidence in approaching future creative partners and developing meaningful and impactful projects.

The programme aims to:

• create a community of AHSS researchers open to or already experimenting in engaging with creative industries tools and practices;
• The programme will inform our work in developing the AHSS KE ecosystem by increasing our understanding of existing barriers and opportunities to researcher-creative industry collaboration.
• AHSS Schools will begin to map the unique capacities, strengths and thematic interests of the research community and to differentiate the value of Cambridge AHSS’s offering for future creative industry partners.
• The work can feed into larger ambitions to develop more structural links with valued creative industry partners by identifying, encouraging and convening an “open-to-collaboration” research community. The success of interactions between AHSS researchers and larger industry partners will rely on our ability to describe our strengths and to tell compelling stories about emerging high-impact projects led from AHSS research.