Jisc Business & Community Engagement (BCE)

Thursday 14 March (3.14) was Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant used the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (approximately 3.14159) Marc Dobson from the Jisc Advance BCE Team joined colleagues from Jisc Netskills to support an international online event delivered by the University of Oxford called Pi [...]

One of the Business and Community Engagement (BCE) programme’s latest outputs, the Relationship Management infoKit, will be unveiled at the Jisc CETIS Conference today. In the coming years the UK higher and further education sectors will continue to adapt to momentous changes in their markets, growing influence of web technologies and rapidly evolving regulatory environment. In [...]

December 2012 saw the customary end of year engagement jamboree in the form of the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement’s (NCCPE) annual conference ENGAGE.  ENGAGE is usually a packed, lively and uplifting event and this year’s conference proved no exception, despite the decidedly non-uplifting nature of the sector’s struggles in ‘Responding to Change’ (the [...]

Guest blog post written by Sandra Winfield, The University of Nottingham On 28 November the Jisc BCE Access to Resources Ingenuity KnowledgeHub project held a press launch for the redesigned Ingenuity website which includes two new tools built as a result of project work. Discover enables semantic searching to surface relevant content from the depths [...]

The Lambert Toolkit was developed to help universities and companies undertake collaborative research projects. It comprises a set of 5 Model Research Agreements, 4 Consortium Agreements, a decision guide and guidance notes. The Toolkit has been in place since 2005; with this in mind IP Pragmatics have been commissioned by the IPO to evaluate the [...]

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• Professional Development Diagnostic Tool for BCE
• CRM Good Practice Handbook
• Relationship Management infoKit
• Embedding BCE infoKit
• Embedding BCE Workbook
• Online Promotion of Research Expertise
• Relationship Management – Just Enough Online Guide (Synthesis of Phase 1)
• Collaborative Online Tools for BCE infoKit
• Online Communities of Practice Panel Discussion
• Knowledge Transfer infoKit
• CRM Self-analysis Framework
• Access for Engagement
• Access to Resources and Open Innovation
• Service Design Guide
• BCE: Business as Usual?
• Legal Guidance for BCE
• BCE Briefing Paper – Maximising the Impact of Your Partnerships (2012)
• Managing Your Customers Briefing Paper (2012)
• Strategic BCE Videos
• Work-based Learning Maturity Toolkit
• BCE Briefing Paper (2010)

• BCE Blog
• JISC BCE YouTube Channel
• JISC BCE Slideshare collection
• JISC Advance BCE webpages

• BCE User Needs Study
• BCE Consultation – Workshops Report
• Open Innovation Study
• Business Information Resources Study
• BCE and Publicly-funded IP Report
• CRM Issues in HEIs – Report
• Extending Access management into BCE Report
• Digitisation, Curation and Two-way Engagement Report
• Analysis and Synthesis of Institutions’ Strategic Plans for BCE
• CPD for BCE Practitioners Project
• Relationship Management Reports
• Employer Engagement Pilots and Synthesis