Abstract
Our contribution to this volume is designed to provide a basis for understanding the range of factors that influence how universities, passively and actively, receive and act upon external messages regarding their roles and functions and the consequences this has for community engagement activities. For this purpose we draw upon a wide range of researchs that we have conducted for universities, as well as international comparative work on science, governance and regionalisation and cities and innovation. We argue that a mismatch between external demands and internal structures and systems leads to a preferencing of particular kinds of activities to the detriment of more socially-oriented or altruistic areas of work.
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Higher education in England is funded through the ‘dual support system’. Disciplinary Research Councils covering the whole of the United Kingdom allocate research funds to academics or groups of academics through competitive bidding. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) allocates funding to institutions on the basis of periodic quality-related assessments.
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Based on the Comprehensive Spending Review, 2007–2011, figures quoted in Science Budget 2007–2011.
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Following a review of the dual support model for funding university research in 2002, the government required higher education institutes (HEIs) and their funding partners to adopt the transparent approach to costing (TRAC) methodology to enable them to estimate the full economic cost (FEC) of research to and to ensure that this is properly considered in funding decisions. HEIs were asked to recover, in aggregate, the full economic costs of their activities.
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The scale of knowledge exchange income grew from £ 0.98 b in 2001 to £ 1.94 bn in 2007 (PACEC/CBR 2009, p. 10).
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A range of works underpins the framework offered in this chapter funded by the UK Research Councils (Economic and Social Research Council), research foundations (Ford Foundation), local partnership bodies (the Contact Partnership, Manchester) and universities (London South Bank, Salford University). Further information is available on our website at http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk.
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May, T., Perry, B. (2013). Translation, Insulation and Mediation. In: Benneworth, P. (eds) University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4875-0_11
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