Pure
If you are an academic or researcher, then Pure is where to record your engagement activities. This will be pulled through into your departmental staff profile, unless you choose for the information not to be shared in this way. Here is a departmental staff profile, showing how Pure can raise your profile.
In Pure there is a drop-down list of activities to select from – these include: hosting an external, non-academic visitor; invited talk; public lecture/debate/seminar.
The Pure section of the website has more information including user guides.
For further support email Research Services Office systems: rso-systems@lancaster.ac.uk
KEEP
The Knowledge Exchange Engagement Portal (KEEP) is an institution-wide Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. It is used to manage relationships with external organisations and individuals engaged in a variety of activities, including Consultancy, KTPs, Business Support Programmes, Internships, Placements, Student Projects, IP & Commercialisation and Co-location. It is mainly for the use of professional services staff.
As well as being used for managing relationships, the information from the system can be used for Higher Education Business and Community Interaction survey reporting, informing the institutional allocation of the Higher Education Innovation Funding.
If you are an academic or researcher and about to embark on a relationship with an external organisation it would be good practice to find out if there is already a link with the organisation, which should be captured in KEEP. This can be done by getting in touch with your Faculty Partnership/Business Development Manager.
School Engagement
As an academic or researcher, you will be recording your schools’ engagement in Pure. In addition, there is a dedicated schools engagement information and recording system, DataFiltr. This is used to keep track of all schools’ activity occurring across the University including recruitment and engagement activity.
To record your activity in DataFiltr the easiest way is to first enter into Pure and then send your updated staff profile or the information to schools@lancaster.ac.uk. This will then be directed to your faculty contact who will enter the information on your behalf.
Further questions on the system can be addressed to: schools@lancaster.ac.uk.