The Knowledge Exchange Concordat will support universities in demonstrating impact
There have been times when the ‘real world’ impact of universities has been doubted. The coronavirus pandemic is not one of them, as they are being relied on to come up with life-saving tests and vaccines (as well as to supply equipment, statistical models and personnel). So in some ways the Knowledge Exchange Concordat, published today by Universities UK and GuildHE and covered by Chris Parr for Research Professional News, seems to date from a different age.
The concordat is all about universities proving—to themselves, to the wider public and to the government—a commitment to knowledge exchange and to improving on it when they have not come up to scratch. Covid-19 has just done that for them.
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