Enhance your impact with trustworthy and diverse insights.
Our summaries allow change-makers to find and use important academic research without the usual hassle.
2 million
Academic papers are published every year
75%
Of all social science research is never cited or used
50%
Of cited social science papers are made by USA and UK academics – power imbalances stifle diverse representation
2 hours
The average time it takes to read one academic paper
Our mission
Academic knowledge is a trustworthy, diverse and creative resource produced to assist people and planet.Â
Thus we want to make academic knowledge from around the world accessible and useable for every change-maker, to help them make a greater impact.Â
We support the movement to democratise, diversify, and decolonise academic research.
What we do
We turn academic research into short impact summaries, so non-academics can easily find, learn and apply insights to improve their work.
Our impact summaries are short, simplify complex language, and focus only on what matters for professionals: findings, evidence and what it means for moving forward.Â
We help academics have their research seen, and we help professionals find insights to enhance their work.
Open access
We faced some challenges trying to work out how to fund such an initiative.Â
Actionable Insights
Summaries are made for the professional to use. Making them quick, easy, actionable
Use experts
Need to make a policy or project better? We connect expert advisors to meet your needs.
Diverse ideas
A global community, where you can find ideas and people from around the world
How our platform works
1.
Academics add summary
After making a free account, academics create practical summariesÂ
2.
Insights shared
Summaries are added to the database and available to be discovered
3.
Use insights for impact
Quickly find diverse findings and evidence to improve your work
Know more in less time
Have your research seen
Find evidence to back your work
Learn new perspectives
Grow your network
Be inspired, think bigger
Deliver more impact
Services
Our database of summaries is completely open-access. It is free for academics to contribute, and free for practitioners to access and use.
It is an open resource, developed to deliver societal value. To help change-makers be more effective.
This is because Acume was started to change academia and empower individuals with diverse knowledge. We wanted to make insights accessible to everyone, no matter an organisation’s resources or academics access to finance. And we wanted different groups of academics and knowledge represented across the platform.Â
We do not impose paywalls, charge contribution costs, or use ads. Instead Acume is funded by a model which benefits everyone.
We connect experts to need and take a small commission for doing so.
Academics on our platform can discreetly become paid experts, and we hire out our experts to organisations who need help. Helping the academic make an additional income, and helping the organisation avoid wasting resources, costly mistakes and expensive consultancy fees.
Meet the team
Noemi Suter
Social Media
Smaranda Bob
Interviewer
Meliha Verlasevic
Interviewer
Tyree Vasconcellos
Interviewer
Our advisors
Our values
Learn
Be curious, open-minded, experiment, learn from different perspectives
Empower
Listen, be inclusive, embrace diversity. Make knowledge accessible to all.
Trust
Be objective, honest and make decisions based on evidence
Think big
Imagine, rethink, and contribute to a better world that serves people and planet
Thank you to everyone who has given their time to make Acume happen.
Phaedra Haringsma
