Narrative
Ketso is a social business, selling and renting a hands-on kit for creative engagement that provides table-top tools to record and display ideas, enhancing group productivity and creativity. Ketso is the only documented spin-off company from ESRC funded research, which was conducted at the University of Manchester (UoM). Ketso has been taken up by over 50% of UK universities, is used in 27 countries and boasts over 300 unique customers. Ketso has demonstrated clear social and economic impacts in: community/environmental planning, health/wellbeing, enterprise development and pedagogy. Ketso works at scales from the very local to national, allowing the synthesis of multiple voices in a process of knowledge co-production. Practitioners recognise that its use in data gathering enhances the impact of research, engagement and change management.| Impact date | 2014 |
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| Category of impact | Societal impacts |
| Impact level | Benefit |
Documents & Links
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Research output
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Meeting the challenges of sustainable development-A conceptual appraisal of a new methodology for participatory ecological planning
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Going beyond the metaphor of the machine - complexity and participatory ecological design
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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"think like an ecosystem"-Embedding a living system paradigm into participatory planning
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The value of combining a systems view of sustainability with a participatory protocol for ecologically informed design in river basins
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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New approaches to flood risk management - implications for capacity-building
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Impacts
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Ketso: improving professional practice and participation by embedding research findings into a physical toolkit
Impact: Environmental impacts, Societal impacts, Attitudes and behaviours, Health and wellbeing