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At Lancaster University, we engage with others to use our collective knowledge and expertise as a force for good, creating positive economic, cultural, societal and environmental change.
Knowledge exchange is a two-way exchange between researchers and research users, to share ideas, evidence, research, experiences and skills. It refers to any process through which academic ideas and insights are shared, and external perspectives and experiences are brought into academia for mutual benefit.
The Knowledge Exchange Framework is a great way to showcase Lancaster University’s strengths around partnerships and engagement, all with the aim of translating our activity to benefit wider society.
Lancaster University has been highly rated highly in the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Knowledge Exchange Framework assessments.
Read our knowledge exchange case studies to discover how our collaborative research, education, business, and engagement projects are making a difference.
Lancaster University has once again been recognised as one of the top universities in the UK for its strong partnerships with businesses and other organisations, as well as its focus on local growth and regeneration.
KEF24 ranked the University in the highest scoring category of ‘very high engagement’ for:
The University was also commended for its efforts in research partnerships, intellectual property (IP), and commercialisation, reinforcing its excellent reputation for knowledge exchange activities.
This video has been put together by Lancaster’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) and illustrates the benefits of carrying out engagement activities to researchers and to those they are engaging with.
Led by Research England, the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) forms the third pillar of assessment of university activities, alongside the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Alongside the KEF, Universities including lancaster, have signed up to a Knowledge Exchange Concordat (KEC) of good principles and practice. Simply put, the KEC is how we will embed and deliver KE activities the KEF outlines what we do.
The KEF assesses a university’s KE activities, through narrative and metric data, under seven ‘perspectives’:
You can read Lancaster University’s narratives for KEF 2023 here:
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