During the recent REF census period, we secured new funding. Particularly good examples are:

• Singh, Moss and Williams, An Evaluation of the Axis Youth Hub Project, The Big Lottery Wyre Forest Nightstop, Kidderminster (£25,000)
  
  
• Walton and Umfreville, Pre-packaged administration Insolvency Service (£19,220).
• Walton, Kenyan Insolvency Law, World Bank/Kenyan Government (US$100,000).

It remains a strategic objective for colleagues to establish strong links with external bodies, including statutory, voluntary, community, professional and business organisations, and community groups, as well as to work collaboratively on funding opportunities. An example is the work led by Walton and completed for the Insolvency Service, the World Bank/Kenyan Government, R3, the ICAEW and the IPA.

These are a product of close links forged by Walton with those organisations by being on national technical committees and being invited regularly to speak at practitioner conferences. A highly effective way of ensuring research is relevant, impactful, and reaches its target audience is to work with trade, professional, and Government bodies. This has led directly to impactful research, as evidenced in the two REF 2021 impact case studies, also discussed in the Impact Section of this website.

Research findings have been recognised by Government and professional bodies and cited several times in Parliament and in the courts. The reach and significance of such impact is due to the high quality of the research and the strategic approach adopted to ensure research findings are widely known and relevant to current practical problems, such as pre-packaged administration and insolvency litigation funding. Both Impact Case Studies are in areas of legal practice identified early as likely to require academic research, in order to inform debate and reform, and are examples of this strategy working.

Another example is work by Potočnik, who implements her feminist approach to intellectual property law in collaboration with The F-List for Music CIC, where she also sits on the Board of Directors. Strategically, she has co-founded the Research Hub @The F-List, which aims to create space for interdisciplinary, feminist, critical scholarship into structural barriers for women and gender minority musicians. The F-List pursues its vision when "Women in the music industry will be able to more successfully start and sustain their careers in music for longer because of The F-List" through the mission of "Helping UK female and gender minority musicians overcome structural barriers by facilitating training and profile and professional opportunities."

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