Are you a social scientist with experience of working with businesses or industry partners? Are you interested in business engagement but not sure how to go about it? Do you have opinions on the type of support the University/Division should provide for social sciences in this area? Are you interested in how social sciences can tap into the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund recently announced by Government?
All the sessions will take place at the Social Sciences Divisional Office, Room A (Hayes House, 75 George Street, OX1 2BQ). Please confirm by return of email (aileen.marshall-brown@socsci.ox.ac.uk) which session you would like to attend and if you have any special requirements. We will be in touch with more details of the format of the session in due course. If you cannot make any of these dates but you would like to feed into this then please let us know and we will arrange to speak to you separately if timing allows.
We have identified a few areas we think might be areas of potential for Oxford social sciences but would like to test these areas through the focus group discussions and figure out if there are other potential areas we have missed. Suggested areas so far: finance, banking, insurance and risk; big data; energy and environment; cities/urban futures incl transport.
We are keen to make the outcomes of this work practical and relevant for researchers across the division, so your time on this would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.