Speaking for English: Economic Impact
48% of the reach and impact produced in English between 2014 and 2020 was judged 4*, by far the best result in the Arts and Humanities, and an outcome that belongs to all departments, large and small, across the 4 nations of the UK. In 2023, we’ll be digging into the REF Impact Case Studies in a rolling series of events. The English Association, the Institute for English Studies and University English will team up to look behind the numbers to understand what our colleagues in departments of English are achieving. We want to understand the deep social, cultural and economic impact our subject is achieving. We also want to meet (and celebrate) the people behind our 2022 impact case studies, and find out how they did it!
The impacts we have chosen for our first meeting have all had an economic impact, or have informed economic understanding. We will be hearing from the teams behind the following case studies:
- Shakespeare North (Liverpool John Moores)
- Maximising the economic and cultural value of Robert Burns for Scotland (Glasgow)
- Show Me the Money: Improving Public and Professional Understanding of Finance (Southampton/Edinburgh)
- Poetry as a Driver of Business Innovation: Westpark Residential Development (Newcastle)
Each team will have 8-10 mins to tell us what they did, and then we will open up for questions. The workshop will be online via Zoom. Bring your lunch!
