Date
28 November 2022
Time
09:00
Location
Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT
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CRoSS Programme: Research Impact Ideation Workshop
How can social science research insight, data, expertise and innovations find pathways to lasting impact in areas of critical need?
Over the course of a day, participants are presented with questions and challenges derived from social science addressing global economic and environmental challenges. Through facilitation, conversation and the use of ideation tools and methods, we’ll develop our ideas and begin to map out innovation pathways.
The aim of the day is, through group cooperation and mutual learning, to create innovative proposals which could be used to translate academic insight into a tangible real-world outcomes.
Join an engaged and action-focussed community as we explore new models for social science impact on global challenges.
What might impact in areas of critical need look like in the real-world?
You can read a short Q&A with:
- Joao Costa, PhD researcher at the Institute for Criminology who chats to us about creating the peace-building methodology, Peace Behind the VOI.
- Maryam Tanwir, who specialises in gender-related subjects around policy and also works as a gender consultant for the World Bank and United Nations. Maryam talks to us about tackling intimate partner violence in Pakistan through her involvement in project, Women Against Violence Centres in Pakistan.
This event is in partnership between the Centre for Global Equality and Cambridge Enterprise, with support from the Cambridge Global Challenges research network. We are excited to welcome Francesca O’Hanlon as our facilitator for the day, alongside mentors and experts from the Cambridge entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Who is this event for?
- Researchers and research students, including but not limited to social science and humanities specialists, Masters and PhD students, MBA students, etc
- Social entrepreneurs and those interested in taking activist and entrepreneurial approaches
- University staff members, visitors and others engaged in supporting research impact
- Others in the community who have valuable insight, expertise or experience to share
We encourage a broad range of participants and will ask you to share with us a little of your interest, skills and background so we can create diverse teams!
Our themes:
- Economic inclusion
- Community vulnerability and resilience
- Digital inclusion
Our Speakers:
Gabriel Okello is an Exposure Scientist with specific interests in the health effects of air pollution on people and the environment. Gabriel is utilising evidence of air pollution in communities to spark action at policy and strategic level and promote inclusive evidence-based policies and interventions to reduce air pollution and create more liveable urban spaces that support improved public health and wellbeing in rapidly urbanising African cities.
Gabriel is currently applying a multidisciplinary approach to co-design strategies and assess pathways through which policy, community and commercial actions can be leveraged to tackle air pollution, climate change, and explore co-benefits such as potential creation of green jobs in Africa.
He is also a social entrepreneur with a passion to leverage technology to improve healthcare and facilitate financial inclusion in Africa, and is co-founder of Apteka Pharmasoft and Peinzy.
Lorraine Charles is a social entrepreneur and a researcher. She is a Research Associate for the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. Her primary areas of research are education and livelihoods for refugees, particularly examining the potential of digital livelihoods, which she has been working on since 2016.
She has recently begun exploring the future of work, looking at how digitalisation will impact the way work is viewed and how it will be performed.
She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Na’amal, which facilitates remote work in the digital economy for displaced people. Lorraine is the Digital Solutions Specialist for Finn Church Aid.
She is also a member of the MIT ReACT (Refugee Action Hub) Advisory Committee and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Technical Advisory Committee for ReBuild, their East Africa livelihood programme.
Anna Barford is a social and economic Geographer.
She is currently researching how work and livelihoods intersect with environmental problems and solutions. This includes studying informal work in circular systems in lower- and middle-income countries, as well as how the crises of climate change and COVID-19 intersect with young people’s livelihoods in Uganda, Nepal and Indonesia.
Event details:
- Date: Monday 28th November
- Time: 09:00-18:00
- Location: Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT
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Hosted by Cambridge Enterprise, this event is part of the CRoSS Impact Acceleration Programme.
What is Cambridge CRoSS?
CRoSS (Commercialisation of Research out of Social Sciences) is an ESRC-funded impact acceleration programme designed to engage social science researchers in innovation and commercialisation to maximise the impact of their research.
The CRoSS programme supports social scientists with a range of resources and events.