IAA Arts & Humanities Accelerator fund

The IAA will enable King's College London to expand the scale of our
impact and KE work by focusing on underexploited areas and by adding value to existing
mechanisms. KCL will use the IAA to support four strategic aims:
(1) To maximise the cultural and societal impact of King's Arts and Humanities
research by leveraging new impact and KE activities that reach publics underrepresented
in the Academy (e.g. low-income, first-generation attendees, LGBT+, and BAME
stakeholders).
(2) To extend existing, and create new, strategic partnerships by working with a diverse
range of internal and external partners to conduct socially engaged impact and KE activities
that are demand-led, that meet the needs of publics in London and globally.
(3) To create new opportunities for impact and KE, both on- and off-line. We will
network with external stakeholders and communities to extend our use of virtual platforms,
enabling us to widen access to information and collaboration in more flexible ways and to
enhance our understanding of how to generate impact in digital environments.
(4) To sustain, accelerate and communicate an interdisciplinary impact and KE
culture in the Faculty and beyond by extending impact literacy in the Arts and Humanities
community, from postgraduate research level upwards through tailored training courses.

Transcending these four strategic aims, our interdisciplinary approach will extend
collaboration across King's to AHRC disciplines within King's Faculties and Institutes. The following objectives underpin our strategic aims:
(1) Create a new, flexible, rapid response fund that supports proactive impact and KE
activities with underrepresented groups. We will emphasise supporting ECRs and BAME researchers in interdisciplinary projects (e.g. working with health professionals, biochemists or law experts), particularly those fostering new collaborations and / or generating impact and KE in creative, risky and disruptive ways.
(2) Establish and grow diverse...