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Although institutional staff profiles and social media make it possible to make contact with people you’ve never met, face-to-face networking is still absolutely essential: if a person can put a face to a name your request is more likely to be passed on to the right person or responded to quickly.

Some people love networking, but other people would rather hide in a bathroom than drink coffee with strangers. So using the unscientific approach of Google, office anecdotes and personal experience, I’ve generated these top tips:

These awards recognise the important contribution made by KEC professionals working with researchers in turning excellent research or capabilities into real-life benefits and enables the sharing of best practice in KEC amongst the communities served by the Research Councils and PraxisUnico, and replace the PraxisUnico Impact Awards and BBSRC Activating Impact Awards.