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Case Study 1: Nomadic pastoralists’ inclusion in the global Education For All movement enabled by re-designing of education services.

Summary of the impact

The global pledge of achieving Education For All by 2015 is compromised by providers' reliance on education services that are designed for sedentary users and exclude nomadic pastoralists. Dr Caroline Dyer (University of Leeds; Senior Lecturer in Development Practice, 2004-2011; Reader in Education in Development, 2011- present) has re-visioned approaches to education for nomadic groups through her analysis of how public policy perpetuates pastoralists' educational marginalisation and design of research-based models of service provision that can deliver pastoralists' right to education inclusion without compromising their mobile livelihoods. Her research led to changes in national policy strategy and re-designed service delivery in Kenya in 2010, shaped policy debate in Afghanistan from 2012, and has supported community and NGO advocacy in India since 2008.

Submitting Institution

University of Leeds

Unit of Assessment

Politics and International Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration, Sociology

Controlling the hepatitis B virus in Africa and preventing unnecessary expenditure

Summary of the impact

Research conducted by LSHTM has informed the delivery of a 30-year WHO strategy aimed at reducing the devastating burden of liver cancer in Africa and least developed countries in other regions. Studies evaluating the effectiveness of the Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study (GHIS) - the only randomised trial of a hepatitis B vaccine with a disease endpoint in Africa - have shaped current WHO policy recommendations for vaccinations against the virus, enabling WHO to advise against the need for a booster programme, and protecting governments in the less developed world from significant additional expenditure.

Submitting Institution

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Unit of Assessment

Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Clinical Sciences, Medical Microbiology, Public Health and Health Services

Developing Methods for Monitoring Global HIV Epidemic Trends that have Informed the Worldwide Response to the Pandemic

Summary of the impact

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organisation (WHO) regularly report estimates for the prevalence of HIV and associated metrics for almost every country in the world. These statistics are essential for tracking the scale and the impact of HIV epidemic and are used routinely in the policy decisions and funding allocation decisions of national governments and international donors and therefore have a major impact on international public health. The methods underlying those estimates were originally developed, and continue to be refined and updated, by an international group of researchers at Imperial College London.

Submitting Institution

Imperial College London

Unit of Assessment

Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

Governance, Legal Reform and Access to Justice

Summary of the impact

Professor Faundez's research has set out how legal reform projects should be designed and implemented in order to be successful in the context of existing local conditions and to ensure access to justice for indigenous peoples and other vulnerable groups. His work as policy advisor both to development agencies (the World Bank, the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), and the Inter-American Development Bank) and to Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) (Amnesty International, the World Justice Project) has helped these organisations broaden their approach to the design, implementation and evaluation of legal reform projects. The range of his publications - from academic articles to specially commissioned reports - has ensured a fruitful dialogue with practitioners in the field of law and governance.

Submitting Institution

University of Warwick

Unit of Assessment

Law

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Law and Legal Studies: Law, Other Law and Legal Studies

Impact on Maxwell Stamp PLC, its Government Clients and the Government of Azerbijan.

Summary of the impact

BU economic modelling research has driven increased profits for leading international consultants Maxwell Stamp PLC, to the tune of £12 million to date. Simultaneously, the research has benefited the company's clients, including several governments. For example, the research was used to provide advice critical in helping Namibia safeguard revenues of US$700 million annually from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).

Independent of Maxwell Stamp, the same techniques have been used to strengthen the research capabilities of the Institute for Scientific Research on Economic Reforms, Azerbaijan. This has been integral in the successful development of new, internationally competitive industries and the World Bank naming Azerbaijan one of the top 10 economic reformers.

Submitting Institution

Bournemouth University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Economic

Research Subject Area(s)

Economics: Economic Theory, Applied Economics, Econometrics

Improving access to land rights through research on gender and property

Summary of the impact

Whitehead's research on gender, economic liberalisation and land changed the way in which international organisations (the UN, the World Bank and the EU) approach the gendered impacts of land policy. Her work changed policies and programmes to improve women's and poorer people's access to land rights. In particular the International Development Law Organization and national governments in sub-Saharan Africa have acknowledged her findings in their development of best-practice guidance. In Ghana this has helped to deliver changes on the ground by transforming the `Ghana Land Administration Project' to incorporate a gender perspective and civil-society participation in local land administration, advocacy and debate.

Submitting Institution

University of Sussex

Unit of Assessment

Anthropology and Development Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration, Other Studies In Human Society

Influencing the development of public policy on creative digital participation

Summary of the impact

This case study demonstrates sustained impact on UK government and devolved government policy in the area of creative digital participation; on the regional implementation of that policy; on publicly funded community initiatives that benefited from that implementation; and on the NI school curriculum. It will also outline the beginnings of similar impact on an international scale: on government education policy and school and university curricula in, for example, Namibia and South Africa, where the underpinning research has been disseminated.

Submitting Institution

University of Ulster

Unit of Assessment

Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Specialist Studies In Education
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

Chang

Summary of the impact

Chang's research has covered a wide range of public policy, including industrial policy, trade policy, privatisation, and agricultural policy, as well as theories of state intervention. By successfully challenging the then prevailing orthodoxy on economic development, his research has had significant influence on the actions of many national governments, multilateral institutions (e.g., the UN, the World Bank) and NGOs (e.g., Oxfam). Chang's research has also had substantial impact on public debate concerning economic policies, especially but not exclusively those regarding development issues. He has had two best-selling mass-market books (together sold 1.15 million copies as of December 2012) and gained worldwide media exposure for his views.

Submitting Institution

University of Cambridge

Unit of Assessment

Politics and International Studies

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Economics: Economic Theory, Applied Economics, Econometrics

Modelling defects in diamond to preserve consumer trust in the global diamond trade

Summary of the impact

An atomistic modelling program developed at Exeter University has been used to make a significant, recognised contribution to the strong business performance of the De Beers Group, the world's leading diamond company. It gave De Beers the confidence to fund the successful development of new methods to identify synthetic and treated diamonds, which the company says has minimised the impact of fraudulent behaviour on consumer confidence, supported jobs in the global diamond trade, contributed to sales of $7.4bn in one year alone and was a factor in its decision to invest £20m in new research facilities in the UK.

Submitting Institution

University of Exeter

Unit of Assessment

Physics

Summary Impact Type

Technological

Research Subject Area(s)

Chemical Sciences: Inorganic Chemistry, Other Chemical Sciences
Earth Sciences: Geology

Sell More Lose Less: Helping Retail Organisations Manage Their Losses

Summary of the impact

Globally, the impact of loss of goods within organisations is highly significant in economic terms, with estimates suggesting the retail sector alone loses approximately $232 billion a year. This can take the form of internal and external theft, inter-company fraud and a whole range of process-related losses. Traditional approaches have typically focused on responding to the symptoms of these losses through the adoption of a range of short-term technological fixes such as product tags and CCTV.

The research undertaken by Beck has focused on helping organisations to better understand the root causes of these losses, which can be found in a range of operational failures embedded within business practices. His work has provided retail organisations across the globe with new insights, tools and techniques to more effectively measure, monitor and control the problem of loss, which has enabled them to make multi-billion pound savings.

Submitting Institution

University of Leicester

Unit of Assessment

Social Work and Social Policy

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Information and Computing Sciences: Information Systems
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management

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