'bloom and splinter' is a work for Flute, Viola and Harp, intertextually related to my work for chamber ensemble, 'Into Convergences'. Performed by Trio Anima.

bloom and splinter (for Flute, Viola and Harp)

Commercialising social sciences research is such a new area of technology transfer that when you spin out a company “you might be the first to do that type of deal,” says Paul Devlin, the head of research commercialisation and impact at Cardiff University.

And Cardiff is going all in: the institution is a founding member of Aspect, a UK-based multi-university organisation that was set up to drive the creation of social sciences spinouts. Two years ago, Cardiff opened a six-storey incubator, called sbarc|spark, which is dedicated to social sciences and home to the tech transfer office itself.

Devlin — who's been in the job for 18 months — can already claim early successes such as HateLab, a platform to detect online hate speech and crime, that began as a social sciences research project but last year was spun out as Nisien.ai.

Devlin is also working with his boss Vanessa Cuthill and vice-chancellor Prof Wendy Larner to make sure tech transfer is measured by impact, rather than just VC investment raised — a metric that makes sense for life sciences or software spinouts, but not for social sciences.

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Paul Devlin: Cardiff is at the forefront of social sciences commercialisation

In this episode, Russell drops by Cardiff University for a chat with Dr Dave Wyatt, Reader in Civic Mission and Community Action in the university's School of History, Archaeology and Religion.

Dave co-founded CAER Heritage with archaeologist Olly Davis and community development professional Dave Horton. The team have been co-producing heritage projects in the Ely and Caerau districts of west Cardiff for well over a decade now winning numerous awards along the way.

In this episode Dave reflects how academics on the project have learned from local development trust, Action in Caerau and Ely and applied community co-production strategies to discovering new knowledge about the past for the benefit of all.

The spoken extracts and sound effects are taken from:

CAER Hedz: https://youtu.be/xfDmONyfifM?si=tonSRcMay_MR7EXk
Time Team
BBC Sound Effects archive

You can keep abreast of all things CAER Heritage at:

www.caerheritage.org/
facebook.com/CAERHeritage
x.com/CAERHeritage
x.com/SHAREWyatt

Details of the Exploring the Past adult learners pathway that Dave refers to can be found here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/part-time-courses-for-adults/pathways-to-a-degree/pathway-to-a-degree-in-history-archaeology-or-religion

There is also this YouTube Video about the courses:
https://youtu.be/ssQkvxxoqjo?si=xePjS8hYlq6faLHU

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Ep.46 - Universities, civic mission & communities with Dr Dave Wyatt

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